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Loc: Poetry 180: After Years

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza non-prose piece is a love poem.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Birthday

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares the poet life as he reminisces about his boyhood.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Because You Left Me a Handful of Daffodils

For Students 9th - 10th
In the non-prose piece, the poet reminisces about being elected in fifth grade.
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Loc: Poetry 180: June 11

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares his experience with a birthday passing without much celebration.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Doing Without

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece share what it would be like to go without having many material possessions.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The End and the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this non-prose piece, the poet describes the post-war area needs and the concerns of the traumatized area in the years after.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Blue Willow

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet reminisces about the willow and rushes near her childhood home.
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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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Loc: Poetry 180: It Took All My Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the author reminisces about catching a fish, a symbolic event in the poet's life.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Unconditional Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a poem from a young adult reminiscing about past Halloween celebrations.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Green One Over There

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a story of jealousy and the tragic illness that occurred in its midst.
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Loc: Poetry 180: A Birthday Candle

For Students 9th - 10th
The non-prose piece describes a thirtieth birthday candle being blown out and the thoughts surrounding this event.
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Loc: Poetry 180:how to Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids in Her Future

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet advises how to communite with a mother that there will be no grandchildren from her in the future.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Last Wolf

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the scene of a wolf, which is the last surviving member in the midst of a sprawling area, is described.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: They Shut Me Up in Prose

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "They Shut Me Up In Prose --", 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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Sacred Text Archive

Ista: Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet Sacred Text Archive offers the Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry. All of the titles link to primary documents, written in their original language.
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Brock University: Critical Reading: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...
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The Confederation Poets: Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 1943)

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site on Confederation poet, Charles G. D. Roberts. Contains criticism ("Charles G. D. Roberts and William Wilfred Campbell as Canadian Tour Guides" and "Symboliste Elements in the Early Short Stories of Gilbert Parker, Charles...
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The William Blake Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided by the The William Blake Archive, gives a discussion of Blake's life as a double artist and his inspiration for both his art and poems. Users will find images of the original pages for many of Blake's...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fast Break

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, a basketball going through a net via a fast break, is shared within the seventeen, two-line stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Immortality

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem about the topic of "immortality", as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, is shared within two stanzas.

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