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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Free Verse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short encyclopedia article from Wikipedia that defines and gives historical context to free verse poetry. Although no examples are given, there are links to related topics available.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Walt Whitman and his invention of the American free verse. It includes links to his poems "Song of Myself" and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." It provides...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Bucket List Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the song "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw from the soundtrack for The Bucket List as a model, students will take a look at their values and the things they would like to accomplish in their lives before they run out of...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: A Guide for Middle School Teachers [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Visit this resource to find a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help middle school students discover the diversity in African American poets and create their own voice in poetry. This resource is in PDF form.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.
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University of Pennsylvania

U Penn: Poetic Terms and Types

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click on these terms for an excellent definition of these poetic terms, some from the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes types of poetry as well as terms.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analyzing Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use poetic devices to analyze a poem of their choice from the Library of Congress.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Taking the "Un" Out of "Unwritten"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, learners will use a the rap song about prefixes, suffixes and roots and the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. Students will be engaged as they are practice their understanding of prefixes, suffixes and roots....
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides background and texts of numerous poems. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to specific poetry books to find complete text of individual poems.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning (1888). In this color-illustrated story in verse, the Pied Piper pipes a village free of rats, and when the villagers...

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