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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students synthesize the "textbook" definition of lyric poetry and discuss various forms (love lyric, complaint lyric, loss lyric, satiric lyric). They discover the relationship of poetry to musical selections. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore choral poetry and choral reading. They rearrange a nursery rhyme, rewrite a folktale to be performed as a choral poem, complete a choral poem scaffolding worksheet, and compose an original choral poem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students explore poetry through jazz, rap, and hip hop music. They discover the common threads that run through the poetry and music. Students design their own lyrics to a jazz, rap, or hip hop selection and share their songs with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 12th - Higher Ed
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Students explore the Ottoman style of poetry. They view a video, Suleyman the Magnificent, and view maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. They research the Ottoman Empire and keep a journal. They read various Ottoman poems and identify themes and images. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 7th
- Rating
Students study lyrical poems. They review locating words in a dictionary for word study. They discss characteristics of poems that are lyrical and circle personal pronouns, words, and images that convey feelings and emotions. They read the poem, "Beware of Me" to a partner and locate characteristics of lyrical poems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students analyze lyrical poetry. They read and discuss poems and identify characteristics that make them lyrical. They locate personal pronouns and words that convey images, feelings, and emotions. They read a poem aloud to a partner and identify the characteristics of lyrical poetry. They review definitions of the words poem, lyric, and lyrical. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students examine dictionary skills and participate in a class discussion about lyrical poetry. They examine and discuss the different sections/quartiles of the dictionary, and identify which quartile a list of words would be found. Students then read the poem "Ode to a Nightingale," and identify the characteristics the poem has that makes it a lyrical poem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine song lyrics and identify the poetry elements or tools used by a lyricist. They review the song individually before working in groups to discuss what they discovered about the song's narrator or character based on evidence from the poem. Groups reconvene as a class and discuss the song's relationship to poetry and the use of poetic elements in the song. Full Review »
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