Level 1: Poet TraineeReward: 700XP Players: 1-2Directions:1. Create a mindmap, showing the ideas in the poem. 2. Colour code the different type of connection. ToolChestIf you have lucidchart on your google drive (apps) you can use that.
There are lots of other mindmapping tools available. ExampleMindmap for "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes". For those of you who are artistic check out these examples of mindmaps! Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes
At the stoplight waiting for the light nine a.m. downtown San Francisco a bright yellow garbage truck with two garbagemen in red plastic blazers standing on the back stoop one on each side hanging on and looking down into an elegant open Mercedes with an elegant couple in it The man in a hip three-piece linen suit with shoulder-length blond hair & sunglassed The young blond woman so casually coifed with short skirt and coloured stockings on the way to his architect's office
And the two scavengers up since four a.m. grungy from their route on the way home The older of the two with grey iron hair and hunched back looking down like some gargoyle Quasimodo And the younger of the two also with sunglasses & long hair about the same age as the Mercedes driver
And both scavengers gazing down as from a great distance at the cool couple as if they were watching some odorless TV ad in which everything is always possible
And the very red light for an instant holding all four close together as if anything at all were possible between them across that small gulf in the high sea of this democracy
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |