In this Let’s Think in English lesson KS3 students explore symbolism in E E Cummings’ poem maggie and milly and molly and may. The lesson therefore explores both how the objects may symbolise aspects of the girls’ personalities and how in the final couplet the sea may have a wider (symbolic) meaning.
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One of the first questions students explore in the lesson. is: “What age might the girls be?”. Here is an example of whole class feedback to the question from a mixed ability Year 7 class in Leicestershire.
Transcript for Going to Sea 2