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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students investigate the poetry process and forms. They write poetry and create presentations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students brainstorm elements of nature art prints and photos. They identify the syllable count of Haiku and take a nature walk. They write Haiku poems while practicing the use of simile, alliteration, metaphor, and analogy to describe nature. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students examine examples of literary terms in poetry. Then they choose two songs, write out the lyrics, and decipher what they think the artist is trying to say. Each student presents their song to the class and they cite examples of poetry terms. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students explore poetry using American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project. They compose their own unque "found poetry" based on the stories found in the collection. Full Review »
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