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Charlotte Perkins GilmanA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
In this activity, students speculate on the subject of the poem from the point of view of an abstract idea, Prejudice.
Work in pairs or small groups to rewrite the poem from the point of view of Prejudice.
Consider Prejudice’s motivations.
Share your poem’s opening lines with the class. How does your interpretation of this personified entity compare to those of others? Does Prejudice exemplify common traits class-wide?
Differentiation Suggestion: For kinesthetic learners, suggest that they convert the poem to dialogue between the speaker and Prejudice and then perform it for the class. You might provide students with a sentence starter: “I spied her coming up the path _____.”
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman