Extension+Activities

This area allows you to post ideas, assignments, and discussion questions. The Guide provided by the TPL has a number of interesting activities to engage students in Downie's poetry.

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The following document contains some extension activities provided by Tim Gauntley, Maureen Casey and Sharon Mills.



The following assignments were created and shared by Marie Axler from Malvern, who is using Loyalty Management with her Grade 11 U English from Malvern CI:

ENG 3U3 //Loyalty Management// Assignment

1.  Read the book of poems.

2.  Write a short “impressionistic” personal review ( about 400 words).

3.  How does Glen Downie see Toronto as compared to the way you see Toronto?

4.  Create or write a “pastiche” of a Downie poem(s).

5.  Write a poem about Toronto in your own style.