In addition to Wordsworth’s poems, this volume for students in grades 7-12 includes a “Pre-Flight”, a short introduction about reading poetry, a “Wrap-Up”, a more in depth explanation and discussion of some of the poems, along with “I Like to Walk,” where Mr. Draeger meets a strange man in Downtown San Diego who says he’s William Wordsworth.
Also included are open-ended, Socratic discussion questions to help students think more in depth about the poems, some Wordsworth quotes and a list of some of his other works.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a portrait of Wordsworth and over a dozen memes and posters. There are also some blank memes that your students can fill in with their own text.
Sample Pages
Book Contents
- Introduction
- Pre-Flight
- Selected Poems of William Wordsworth
- Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew Tree
- Goody Blake and Harry Gill
- Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House
- A whirl-blast from behind the hill
Anecdote for Fathers - Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- My heart leaps up when I behold
- To the Daisy
- The sun has long been set
- Ode to Duty
- I wandered lonely as a Cloud
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- Sonnets
- Composed Upon Westminister Bridge
- Great Men have been among us
- London
- Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room
- I grieved for Buonaparte
- The world is too much with us
- November, 1806
- Surprized by joy
- Discussion Questions
- Wrap Up: After You Read
- I Like to Walk (A short, creative bio about the Wordsworth)
- Wordsworth Quotes
- Additional Reading
- Create Your Own Memes
- About Glen Draeger
“The magazine cover is something I never thought would happen to me. For the record, Harry Gill deserves everything that happened to him.”
— Goody Blake
“Goody Blake is a vindictive, evil woman.”
— Harry Gill
This is Literature Disguised as Fun.
