Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience - Holy Thursday Poems - Lessons 6 and 7

These two lessons are on the Holy Thursday poems from both Songs of Innocence and Experience.
The first lesson focuses on developing skills in alternative readings of methods with consideration to writer’s purpose for Holy Thursday (Innocence). Students will use passages from the Bible to consider both a positive reading and a negative undertone to the poem and complete the handout using through a class ‘Jigsaw.’
The second lesson focuses on independent analysis skills that build on those from the previous lesson. After a reading of the poem and consideration of key context, students are divided into groups and can either 1) complete the handout looking at different aspect of the poem or 2) (how I taught it) be assigned a group and have speedy responses to the different categories, essentially working as a class to develop an analysis.
My students really enjoyed these lesson and it led them into a formative essay task. Hope you enjoy as well.