warren pryor

This is a one week unit for use by Teachers who have at least
four computers in their classroom.

Procedure: Separate the class into four groups with no more than 8 students
per group. Students in each group should then work in pairs. Each
group is given an activity which they will work on in class and
it must be completed for homework. The groups will rotate each day
so at the end of the week they will have completed all activities.


DAY ONE: Introduce the following poems "Warren Pryor" by Alder Nowland
and "The Average" by W.H. Auden. Discuss the meaning
of the poems with the students or have the students discuss the
poems in their groups.

Warren Pryor The Average

When every pencil meant a sacrifice His peasant parents killed themselves with toil
his parents boarded him at school in town, to let their darling leave a stingy soil
slaving to free him from the sto...