#19 - Craft Stations

1. First-read listening: Students listen with pens down, then jot one image that stayed with them.

2. Second-read annotation: Mark: personification, the four “passed” stations of life, the house/grave, time collapse in the last stanza, dashes that slow or isolate meaning. Vocabulary: civility, gossamer, tippet, tulle, cornice, surmised.

3. Craft stations (pairs): Station A — structure & meter; Station B — symbols (school, grain, sun, house); Station C — tone shift from courtesy to chill to eternity. Rotate 6 minutes each.

4. ATC paragraph: Prompt: How does Dickinson’s speaker respond to death—with fear, acceptance, curiosity, or something else? Answer + two quotations + commentary that names a craft move.