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Worksheet
Curated OER

"Ode to a Nightingale" Theme of Transience

For Students 10th - 12th
In this "Ode to a Nightingale" worksheet, students explore the theme of the fleeting nature of youth and happiness. Students discuss the meaning of the symbols and the speaker's state of mind.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ode to a Nightingale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read poems about Tuberculosis by John Keats. Using the poems, they identify similies, metaphors, personification and imagery. In groups, they make connections about the author's outlook on life and how his disease impacted his...
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Activity
Other

John keats.com

For Students 9th - 10th
This is John-Keats.com, which contains an introduction, biography, poems, letters, shop, news, and forum on the poet, John Keats.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Problem Solving With Ezra Jack Keats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...
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Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Literature: Romantic Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This course outline offers resources for studying romantic poets such as Keats and Wordsworth and fiction writers such as Shelley and Scott.
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Website
Other

The Keats Shelley House: John Keats 1795 1821

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of English poet, John Keats.
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: John Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of John Keats including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Keats is also provided.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Romanticism

For Students 9th - 10th
What inspired the iconic poetry of the Romantic period, and how did the Romantic poets portray landscape, class, radicalism, and the sublime? Find out from this collection of articles.
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: John Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read a very brief article on the life and written works of John Keats. Includes links to full texts of "Endymion," "Otho The Great," and his poetry.