LESSON PLAN
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1)I will have the class read the poem aloud, several times.
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2)We will brake the poem down line by line .
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3)I will have students look up certain words such as “Bedight”.
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4)Before we act out the poem in its final stage, I will have students act it out in modern language (slang).
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5)Finally, we will act out the poem in costume and with props.
ELDORADO
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell, as he found
no spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length
He met a pilgrim shadow
“Shadow,” said,
“Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?”
“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,
“The Shade replied,-
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
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Edgar Allan Poe
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April 21, 1849
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