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- 9th
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Students explore poetic technique and figurative language in this ten lesson unit. Comparisons are made between a variety of forms of poetic expressions and the lives of several poets are studied. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the historical and cultural context in Sandburg's poem. The poetic devices of personification and apostrophe are utilized in the poem and identified by Students. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read and analyze poems about death. They analyze the poems in small groups, listen to an audio clip, define key vocabulary terms, complete a worksheet and Venn diagram, and prepare a presentation of a poem comparison. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to or read aloud selected poems. They discuss the form of the poems as well as compres/contrast poems with similar themes. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students design an artistic and literary collage of contemporary urban life that seeks to interpret, analyze, and evaluate its mettle. They integrate their impressions of urban life with established views, thereby enriching their understanding of their own present and future. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students create new words to convey their thoughts. They find, list and discuss the poetic devices used by the poet in creating his or her war poem and create their own war poems. They use sensory perception words and memory in creating a poem. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students practice analysis of poetry by analyzing song lyrics using a worksheet to guide the analysis process. They work in small groups to assess the stylistic and literary devices used in the song lyrics then they find a published poem to analyze and present to the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students look at Sandburg's poem in a literary, historical, and biographical context and reflect on them by completing worksheets. They write and reflect upon their own descriptive pieces that use Sandburg's detail and figurative language as a model for evoking a place. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to a variety of American poets and their works, such as Anne Bradstreet, William Bryant, Henry Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, etc. They are also introduced to non-canonical poems, such as those of Countee Cullen and Wallace Stevens. Pupils are also introduced to a variety of literary and poetic devices, figures of speech, etc. 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 »

