---
title: "02.14.08"
date: 2008-02-14
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/02/14/021408/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 02.14.08

Cores 1+4:

- Pair Discuss-on:![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080214-e9xbxmj6cre8ynws417muaqu5r.jpg?w=1225)
- Analyze Utopian Poetry.
- Create a unique perspective in your own utopian poem.

- What images are you going to invoke?
- What metaphors would help to explain your vision of utopia?

- Extensions:
- Finish your Utopian poem for next Wednesday
- Talk about what next week looks like.

Core 2:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080214-f8spmkgyqrsyy8pm5jm4d2q59m.jpg?w=1225)

- What will you have to face?

- Rev-it-up
- [Talk about survival simulations. (Print off a new copy of the PDF if you need one.)](http://chakra.lunarbreeze.com/~acade23/bhwilkoff/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/survivalsimulation1.pdf)  What is required?
- Who is in your group?
- What are the first steps?

- Extensions:  Start to brainstorm (and write down) who your character is in the survival simulation.

Core 3:

- Brainstorm on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080214-qmbjbxrr6grjbschej1j7pfycn.jpg?w=1225)
- Read Edgar Allen Poe’s Dark Romanticism story.

- How does this story live up to the Romanticist’s beliefs?
- Why would someone want to delve into morbid and macabre themes?

- Talk about the next Image Grammar Activity
- Extension:
- Turn in your Academy Authentic via Academy e-mail.
- Think about: How does revealing the darker side of life, help you to articulate your beliefs?