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Library of Congress

Loc: Found Poetry With Primary Sources: The Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore poetry using American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 collection of American Memory, which covers personal stories collected by the Works Progress Administration. In particular,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Composing and Performing Found Poetry

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Excellent lesson plan that requires students to work collaboratively to select parts of poetry and "perform" poems for the class. Uses the book "Berenstein Bears," but any children's book could be acceptable for the lesson plan.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Found Poems/parallel Poems

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry From Prose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson teaches students to create an original poem based on select words and phrases from a prose piece. Also encourages students to model poetic forms after found poems.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Summarizing a State's History With a Found Poem

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will identify the main message and story behind the song "Cold Missouri Waters," by James Keelaghan; they will use a note-taking strategy and create a "found poem." They will then apply this strategy to an article from a printed...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson plan, students will consider Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Animating Poetry: Reading Poems About the Natural World

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks:gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool". Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab including a video of a...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: R. Frost's "Mending Wall":a Marriage of Poetic Form and Content

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. They will learn to support their analyses with detailed description of...
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th
Poem entitled "Harlem" is shared on this site. This poem was originally found in Langston Hughes' Collected Poems. Click on 'Related Content' for a biography of Langston Hughes.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet expresses the theme that true happiness cannot be found in material items.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson plan, students will consider "Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:"house by the Railroad": A Painting and a Poem for the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Little Boy Found

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, "The Little Boy Found", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Gary Bodwin and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Little Girl Found

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Experience, "The Little Girl Found", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Gary Bodwin and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Other

Humanistic Texts: Selected Poetry of Hitomaro

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The text to poetry written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro is found here.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Internet Poetry Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
ibiblio.org provides a collection of works from contemporary poets from around the world, including Seamus Heaney, Margaret Walker and Czeslaw Milosz among others. Good models for both depth of thought and style found in good...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tribute to an Artist and His/her Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by both a song (sung by Don McLean) about Van Gogh as well as a poem written by Tupac Shakur, students will be inspired to research an artist with an interesting life and style of work. Students will research the artist they...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Preamble: More Than an Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Strategies to help students learn the preamble of the Constitution. Includes a found poem lesson plan.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson plan, students will consider "A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Poetry of the Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

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