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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: Tuesday 9:00 Am

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares the topic of disaster invading ordinary occurrences in city life.
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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: Her Head

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose, five-stanza piece, the poet describes her amazement of a woman who is carrying water on her head in Natal, South Africa.
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Loc: Poetry 180: 96 Vandam

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the author shares sensory-filled images about a street in New York City where many homeless reside.
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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: Schoolboys With Dog, Winter

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece expresses the happiness of a boy and his dog during the winter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: How to Listen

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares how to listen carefully to others.
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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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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson plan, students will consider Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Penn Warren

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers excerpts from interview with Warren about a reunion at Vanderbilt in 1956, on his writings and values, on HAWKS, on rhythm in prose. There is also a review of HEARTS OF AUTUMN. This site also has a photo of Warren.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: A Call for Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The world is an ever changing place, and through this lesson students will have a chance to send a call out for change. Using Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" as an inspiration and a model, students will brainstorm change,...
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Other

Quill & Quire: Book Reviews: You Went Away by Timothy Fendley

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise book review of Timothy Findley's novella, "You Went Away." Provides an overview of the book's setting and characters, as well as remarks on Findley's rich prose.
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Allama Iqbal Poet Iqbal Academy

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information with sample poetry and prose of Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan's official "national poet" and a key voice in the creation of Pakistan. Poetry samples are in Urdu or Persian, with an introduction, translation and notes...
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Milwaukee Art Museum: In the Year 2121

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars research the advances of an invention's industrial design over decades or centuries. They then project future improvements and innovations with drawings and descriptive prose.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: John Dryden

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of Dryden's most important critical prose work is available here from the University of Toronto.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: William Wordsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
View a set of links to selected poetry and prose of William Wordsworth. Many of the poems have explanatory notes.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "Robert Burns as Poet & Person" by Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of Whitman's "Robert Burns and Poet and Person." This piece of prose provides an authoritative analysis of Burns' life and work.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Specimen Days by Walt Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
From his "Prose Works" published in 1892, Walt Whitman comments on Edgar Allan Poe's significance as a poet.
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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: Reckless Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares the perspective of the author who thinks that she loses her real "self" occasionally.
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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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