{"id":696,"date":"2006-10-12T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-10-12T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:05:00","slug":"readwritethink-thinking-inductively-a-close-reading-of-seamus-heaney%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cblackberry-picking%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/12\/readwritethink-thinking-inductively-a-close-reading-of-seamus-heaney%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cblackberry-picking%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"ReadWriteThink: Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney\u2019s \u201cBlackberry Picking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ReadWriteThink lesson eases students\u2019 fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them an inductive strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning. Although the lesson uses Seamus Heaney\u2019s \u201cBlackberry-Picking,\u201d this strategy can be applied to a variety of poems. The lesson was written by Lane Dye of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennesaw.edu\/english\/kmwp\/\">Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project (KMWP)<\/a> at Kennesaw State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ReadWriteThink lesson eases students\u2019 fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them an inductive strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning. Although the lesson uses Seamus Heaney\u2019s \u201cBlackberry-Picking,\u201d this strategy can be applied to a variety of poems. The lesson was written by Lane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readwritethink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}