Students create poetry collections with the theme of ńgetting to know each other.î They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
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Students research mask-making from various cultures, highlight the masks' connections to cultural practices, compose poetry to reveal their understanding, analyze their own culture, and create personal masks and poetry.
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Clues to Walt Whitman's effort to create a new and distinctly American form of verse may be found in his Notebooks, now available online from the American Memory Collection. In an entry to be examined in this lesson, Whitman indicated that he wanted his poetry to explore important ideas of a universal scope (as in the European tradition), but in authentic American situations and settings using specific details with direct appeal to the senses.
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Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
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Students explore the idea of ńcrossing boundariesî through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
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This lesson allow students to explore the forces that prompted the literary modernism movement, specifically focusing on modernist poetry. By allowing students to explore the movement independently, they will also be able to develop research and inquiry skills.
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In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
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Students compare the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," then create their own poetry about a historical event.
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Students apply think-aloud strategies to reading and to composition of artwork and poetry. They research symbols of peace as they prewrite, compose, and publish their poetry.
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A selection of poems, arranged by theme, with a list of poetic terms.
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Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
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Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.
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Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
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AP Lit Comp AP Lit Comp Poetry Overview. Poetry Overview. Poetry Overview PoetryLiterary Terms Rhythm Meter and Scansion Figurative Language Reading and Analyzing Poetry Module Wrapup Assessment
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In this lesson, students explore ekphrasis--writing inspired by art. Students find pieces of art that inspire them and compose a booklet of poems about the pieces they have chosen.
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AP Lit Comp AP Lit Comp Poetry To 17th. Poetry to the 17th Century. Poetry to the 17th Century Lesson 1 Archetypes continued Lesson 2 Beowulf Review of Poetry Analysis Lesson 3 Metaphysical Poetry Lesson 4 Donne Lesson 5 Marvell Lesson 6 Herbert Module Wrapup
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Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.
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AP Lit Comp AP Lit Comp Poetry 18thto Present. Poetry - 18th Century to Present. Poetry 18th Century to Present Lesson 1 Romanticism Lesson 2 Reading the Poetry of the Romantics BlakeWordsworthColeridge ByronShellyKeats Lesson 3 Modern Poetry TS EliotFrostPlathGiovanniRich Module Wrapup Assessment Poetry 18th Century to Present
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Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
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Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
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