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Activity
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided by a University of Pennsylvania professor, Alan Filreis, who has studied Stevens extensively. It contains excerpts from Filreis' critical works, texts of several of Stevens' poems, photos, reviews, letters, links to...
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Unit Plan
Other

Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is maintained by an organization in Hartford, Connecticut, Stevens' home town, devoted to promoting Stevens' poetry and contribution to the Hartford community. It contains a map and photos of the route Stevens walked to work...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit delves into American modernist literature which introduced itself between World War I and World War II, including authors Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Explore the site for a video on demand,...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the Modern American Poetry site maintained by the University of Illinois, provides biographical information on Stevens, commentary on many of his poems (including "Anecdote of the Jar" and "The Emperor of Ice-cream"),...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
Wallace Stevens is featured in this succinct biography for his modernistic poetry which draws upon his theory regarding the importance of perception. See "Wallace Stevens Activities" for related resources.
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Handout
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers a short biography of Stevens, a selected bibliography of his works, e-texts of eight poems, information about Stevens' role in Modernism, and links to related sites.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Death of a Soldier

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Death of a Soldier" by Wallace Stevens, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Website
Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by Georgetown University, gives a guide to discussing Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the various aspects of his writing in the classroom.
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Primary
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens.
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Primary
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an MP3 audio recording and text of the poem "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Curated OER

Wallace Stevens

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Wallace Stevens.