The Living Fire

<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This unit plan from </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> series provides educators the needed educational resources to teach ten poems by Sarah Cortez a living Catholic poet who writes with a sacramental view of our world. The poems themselves are collected in the companion text </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Selected Works of Dana Gioia and Sarah Cortez.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This instructional unit plan includes: suggested activities; writing prompts; vocabulary for scaffolding reading comprehension; challenges for advanced and ESL students; activities that appeal to different learning styles; and critical thinking discussion questions with suggested responses and considerations. The five lessons in this unit offer students and teachers a chance to discover-or rediscover-the enchanting incarnational joy of poetry. </span></p>