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- 5th
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Students are introduced to three sound elements used in poetry: onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyme. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students review examples of alliteration in Shel Silverstein's poems. They are assigned a letter of the alphabet and then write an original alliterative poem using that letter. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine poetic devices including metaphor, simile, and rhyme scheme. They define vocabulary associated with poetry. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study poetic devices and use them in their own writing and apply them when reading poetry. In groups, they describe an item using poetic devices. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students analyze a variety of forms of poetry to use its elements correctly. Proper grammatical usage is practiced as students creatively respond to prose, poetry, and drama. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students review past poetry study and combine it with a study of poetry that expresses how displaced African Americans of the 1920's and 1930's felt. They investigate how contemporary music expresses the same themes. They write their own poetry. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students examine the elements of poetry through a variety of lesson experiences in this unit. They read, write, listen to and respond to a number of poems. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students read and analyze various poems. They write original poetry demonstrating the acrostic, haiku, couplet, limerick, and cinquain forms. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discover how figurative language is used in poetry. They read selected poems and identify the figurative language with handouts and worksheets included in the lesson. They write poems of their own using figurative language. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students use colors as a tool to enhance the poetic form, and to help them see the connection between colors and metaphors in poetry. After listening to a a book of poems about colors, students write a color poem using metaphors. Full Review »
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