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Loc: Poetry 180
Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. Poet laureate Billy Collins has selected these poems with high school students in mind.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Because You Left Me a Handful of Daffodils
In the non-prose piece, the poet reminisces about being elected in fifth grade.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Otherwise
This poet, who eventually died from cancer, foresees how her life will someday end.
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Loc: Poetry 180: A Primer of the Daily Round
This poem incorporates a message about all letters in the alphabet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Love Poem With Toast
This four-stanza shares a poem that expresses what people want to avoid in order to enjoy life with a significant other.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Song
This eight-stanza poem describes the solo sung by a junior high student.
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Loc: Poetry 180: White Eyes
This nine-stanza poem shares a description of a bird that is preparing its winter nest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: To Help the Monkey Cross the River
This poem explains how the monkey crosses a river without getting hurt.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Lesson
This five-stanza poem shares a poem from a father to his son.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Sister Cat
This poem describes how sometimes needs cannot be filled. A cat is used to exemplify this concept.
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Loc: Poetry 180: For My Daughter
This poem expresses a father's wishes for his daughter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Moon
This one-stanza poem describes a half-moon in an original way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted
This poem tells the narrative of a son being taken to the police station to be fingerprinted.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Space Heater
This single-stanza poem describes the poet's gratefulness for the space heater.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?
This three-stanza non-prose piece shares a father's point of view about his son, but the father sometimes forgets that his son is now grown.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Smoking
This single-stanza poem discusses the topic of smoking.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gratitude to Old Teachers
In this two-stanza non-prose piece, the poet expresses gratitude for old teachers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Love Song
This poem describes the saving of a baby bird and analyzes what drew the desperate bird to her.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Near the Wall of a House
This four-stanza poem speaks of the poet's positive insights about love.
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Loc: Poetry 180: To a Daughter Leaving Home
This single-stanza poem expresses the thoughts regarding her daughter who is leaving her family's home.
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Loc: Poetry 180: June 11
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares his experience with a birthday passing without much celebration.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Doing Without
This non-prose piece share what it would be like to go without having many material possessions.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Turtle
This one-stanza poem describes a turtle's physical and mental traits.