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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry: Varying Views of America

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson allows learners to examine the various views of American perspective through studying three poems by diverse poets: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and "On the Pulse of Morning"...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry: Sound and Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson that gently encourages the teaching of poetry in "nonthreatening" ways. Stresses reading and listening, discussion, and the examination of the sound and sense of poetry.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Mlk's Words Through Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This online lesson attempts to teach students the power of Martin Luther King's words in his "I Have a Dream" speech and others. Students create a diamante poem (seven-line diamond-shaped poem) to analyze and evaluate his words and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rcognize how literary devices such as character foils can create complex characters in a short story.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Meter and Rhyme (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the meter, rhyme scheme, line length, punctuation, and word position in poetry.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Meter and Rhyme (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the meter, rhyme scheme, line length, punctuation, and word position in poetry.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Terms: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a guide to poetic literary terms such as meter and an explanation of several types of meter, types of stanzas, types of rhyme, etc.
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Other

University De Valencia: The Literature of Modernism: 1912 40

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Modernist poetry is featured in this comprehensive article.
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Other

The Wondering Minstrels

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Wondering Minstrels website provides a poem a day, complete with analysis, criticism, biographical information, literary anecdotes, trivia, and our own skewed sense of humor. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.10a/b Text...
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Other

California Polytechnic State University: Shakespearean Verse and Prose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains terms used in discussing how verse and prose were used by Shakespeare, and how to recognize prose, rhyme, and blank verse in his plays, and what their functions are. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help you comprehend the poet's meaning by giving you practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] As you work through this lesson, you will learn how to interpret poetry. You will learn how to spot a metaphor, you will learn to identify imagery, and you will be introduced...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 6.1 Writing About Literature: Analyzing Prose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to analyze prose by understanding connotation and denotation, identifying metaphors and similes, looking for repetition, and finding imagery in a text.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features the author William Shakespeare including a biography and the full text of 39 of his famous plays. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: P2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Voice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Thirteen day poetry unit plan provided by The Academy of American Poets designed for ninth or tenth grade students. Contains individual lessons on spoken poetry, written poetry, poetry as social commentary, and voice. Each lesson...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Songs My Teacher Taught Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty day poetry unit plan provided by The Academy of American Poets. Contains three thematic sections: "What is Poetry?", "Poems of Childhood," and "Self and Society." Each section contains a reading list, introduction, analytical...