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• Read, look at, react to some of Neruda's odes. Odes to Common Things are fun, for example, "Ode to a pair of socks."
  
• Discuss how the odes look and sound.
  What is an ode?
  
• Discover how Neruda "odes" an object.
  How does he convey a love of the object?
  
• Brainstorm a list of possible things to ode.
  What things are dear to you?
  What things are common but may hold a greater significance?
  
• Discuss metaphors, similes, personification, alliteration, and assonance.
  Take one or two of the possible ode objects and make a figurative language web around each.
  
• Choose one object to ode.
  Draft an ode copying Neruda's physical structure and use of figurative and concrete language.
  
• Use the Re-Vision suggestions to literally re-vision your ode and make your draft more powerful.
  
• Share with response group. Re-vison. Edit.
  
• Create a final copy.
  
• Publish. Post. Collect.
  Team up with a Spanish class, a Spanish speaker, or an art class.
  Exhibit with Spanish odes from Spanish-speaking students. Exhibit with art created by students to match odes.