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Curated OER

Die Lorelei

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use a traditional German Folksong to increase vocabulary. They use a traditional German folksong to identify a historical time period and explain the meaning of Die Lorelei.
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Curated OER

Viciousness in "Twelfth Night" and "Lord of the Flies"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers work in discussion groups to examine the treatment of Malvolio in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" by comparing the play to the novel "Lord of the Flies".
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Curated OER

How To Identify Figurative Language

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. In this figurative language lesson, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Students demonstrate their understanding...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Keith Haring

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars experience a dance club-like environment one would find in Haring's 1980's. They dress in 80's clothes and learn break dancing moves. They relate the experience to Haring's artwork and explain his influences.
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Curated OER

Water Music

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif.
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Curated OER

Swinging on a String

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release.
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Curated OER

Music And The Related Arts / Fiesta

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the concept of a celebration through the experience of music and culturally relevant conversation. They have a class discussion about thankfulness and tie it the tradition of celebration. Then students listen...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Literary Terms

For Students 7th - 8th
In this language arts worksheet, students 21 look for words having to do with types of literature and literary elements. Students may self correct by selecting the link at the bottom of the page.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Music in Poetry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Music in Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Poetry You've Got Rhythm [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short but informational worksheet for students on the rhythmical sounds of poetry. Includes information about the different types of meter and feet, and allows students to make connections and analysis.
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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: Japanese Poetry Tanka? You're Welcome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A poem "which expresses a personal response to nature," the tanka is a form of Japanese writing very similar to the haiku. This lesson plan is a great extension to any study or exploration of Japanese art, culture, and writing. Included...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rhythm and Rhyming

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson engages students in the shared learning of different poems of the month. Students will clap different rhythms and then apply clapping patterns to different poems of the month. Each poem will contain different rhythms and...
Handout
Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
Handout
University of Pennsylvania

Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the terminology needed to understand rhythm and meter in English poetry including the following terms: stressed and unstressed syllables, iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests, dactyls, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter,...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Rhythm and Rhyme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the terms "Rhythm" and Rhyme" including the definition of each and literary examples of each.
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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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Letter Poems: Experimenting With Line Breaks in Poetry Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms by Mary Wiley Staver

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms and Histories Droll for Boys and Girls from Pole to Pole by Mary Wiley Staver (1892), a collection of illustrated poetry.
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Other

Kintespace: The Art of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an analysis of rhythm, imitation, style, tone, and technique of poetry. References to imagists and their works are also included
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.

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