Ninth graders explore the elements in poetry. In groups, they complete a jigsaw puzzle and discover the strategies for completing a puzzle and reading a poem are similar. Students read short poems and identify key elements in a poem such as alliteration, word choice, and meter.

Concepts

meters, the metric system

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Additional Tags

aliteration, meter, english language arts

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