Spice up your traditional approach to teaching poetic structure with a wonderful animated video, which not only covers such terms as foot, meter, verse, but also stresses Shakespeare's unique use of iambic pentameter to convey emotion and passion in his poetry.

Concepts

iambic pentameter, iambic verse, william shakespeare, poetry, poetry analysis, reading poetry, types of poetry, poets, poetic structure, hamlet

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pause the video at 00:49 in order to emphasize how stresses and emphases are present in poetic verse. This information will be key to understanding the rest of the video

Classroom Considerations

• The TEDEd website affords you the opportunity to check out resources related to the content in the video, as well as participate in an online assessment or discussion

Pros

• Animates process of identifying rhythm and meter in poetry
• Makes several references to noteworthy poems and their unique meter
• Highly engaging and informative

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.5 RL.11-12.5 SL.9-10.5 SL.11-12.5