Wed. Nov. 9, 2016: "Sisters" Active Reading

Today, students were to hand in the questions for "1956: Ambition of the Eldest Son."
I then gave them the poem "Sisters" by Dorothy Roberts to actively read and supply a theme and a summary for tomorrow's class.

I have pasted the the poem below for those who were not here:

SISTERS

My sister and I when we were close together

Clear to each other

Used to slide down beneath the river surface

And in a twist of current see the race

5                Of water break us from our sunny grace.

Wavering, shattered, glimmering each saw

No happy girl she knew

But underwater strangeness, shift and flaw,

Until the bubbles of our laughter drew

10              Us bursting up to the air.

Then we lay bare

And sure and shapely in each other's eyes -

We who no more to certainty can rise

But caught submerged in current of the years

15              See, wavering, each a shape that never clears.