Poetry - Blake - The Tyger - 4 detailed whole lessons

Cultivate a love of this mysterious poem in your class with these four carefully constructed, challenging, complete lessons.

Lesson 1, as an introduction, asks students to compare the Tyger with tigers in art, to develop a nuanced picture of the nature of the Tyger and encourage deep reading.

Lesson 2 continues the visual theme, requiring students to locate images in the presentation in the text, to prepare them to analyse the wonderful imagery of the poem.

Lesson 3 compares the poem with The Lamb, and raises awkward questions about how Blake viewed the Creator!

Lesson 4 locates the poem in Blake's context, and asks students to work in groups to make a studied choice between different theories about what the poem is really about.

Each lesson is complete, with all the elements that might be required, including challenges for the quick thinkers. Each lesson comes with a worksheet that links to the presentation. Common Core aligned.

All materials are easily editable if you wish to make them your own.

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