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- 3rd
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Students gain an appreciation for writing, analyzing, reading and listening to poetry, viewing poems as a motivation for studying Japanese culture and tradition. They study and create their own haiku and tanka poems with illustrations. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students explore what poetry is and certain aspects within it. They write their own knowledge and perceptions of poetry and the expand that knowledge and experience through listening to, reading, and writing poetry and exploring poetic terminology. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore phonics through poetry. They evaluate jump rope rhymes, read and discuss poems, identify rhyming words, create poetry journals, and write and illustrate original poems. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore poems and dramatic readings. They decode and identify rhyming words, compare/contrast various poems, recite poems, construct puppets, and create a student poetry binder. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore poetry formats while reading the books, Pollyanna, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and, Rip Van Winkle. They role-play sayings, poems, and events from the novels, identify and summarize main points, and compose original poetry. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to various time periods in history in which African Americans wrote songs and poetry to cope. In groups, they travel between different stations to listen or read poems and music from the Civil War period, Civil Rights Movement, etc. For each poem or music, they answer discussion questions and write their own poem appropriate for the time period. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students express themselves through poetry. They discover the connection between their music and the music of poetry and hear their work and how the sound of a poem or an analytical paper improves their written work. They develop public speaking skills. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students read excerpts from a variety of poems by Hispanic and Spanish authors in Spanish. Individually, they identify any vocabulary they are unfamiliar with and view examples of poetry elements. To end the lesson, they research and read poems by authors who are second generation Puerto Rican. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students are introduced to the elements of African-American poetry. As a class, they are read different types of poems to discover there are different styles of poems and practice rhyming words. They share information on their family in the United States and write a poem on their favorite family member. To end the lesson, they pick their favorite poems and share them with the class. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students read and explore different types of poetry, ballads, and sonnets. They identify the symbolism and imagery in each poetry. After studying poetry, students create an anthology of their own which includes various poetic devices. Students illustrate each poem. Classwork is collected and organized into a booklet. Students share their poetry with the class. Full Review »
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