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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 »
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- 12th - Higher Ed
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Students examine the poetic elements of a piece of music. They discuss favorite songs, select a song, and write a persuasive essay identifying the poetic qualities of the song lyrics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 4th
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Students explore songs and poems related to the animals, habitats, and activities on rivers and ponds. They listen to song clips, explore various websites, read poems and song lyrics, complete worksheets, and define key vocabulary words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze lyrics of their favorite songs as examples of alliteration, metaphor, Onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile to determine the purpose of these devices in poetry. They use their analysis to create a presentation and "teach" Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine meter, rhythmic patterns, rhyme scheme, and iambic pentameter. They watch video clips, read and discuss various Dr. Seuss books, identify the rhyming words and patterns, read and listen to song lyrics, and write song lyrics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students, after a group reading/evaluation of song lyrics (poetry), analyze how to write the first draft of an evaluation essay following silent reading for twenty minutes. They practice this art by watching the teacher model an example of writing the essay on the overhead. 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
- 9th - 10th
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Students will review poetic terms we have already studied and see them function in a poem. Understanding is established with the connections between poetry and song lyrics. They will practice applying poetic and rhetorical terms in writing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 11th
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Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities and write their own poetry using descriptive vocabulary. 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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