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The Kipling Society: Some Kipling Poems
This site from The Kipling Society provides full texts of almost 40 of Kipling's poems.
Other
Rmc Denver: Reflections on Poetry Readings
This site features a lesson plan for how middle school students can learn to reflect on poetry readings. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.
Emory University
Emory University: The Limerick
This site gives a good description of limerick. Features details about the rhyme scheme and the different forms of limericks. References to the bawdy nature of this verse form.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poems of Charles Lamb
The University of Toronto offers selected poems of Chales Lamb, with notes on his life and works.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Selected Poetry of the Venerable Bede
Link from here to Bede's Death Song, in original and modern language. Also includes a biographical overview.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This site provides several selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese."
Emory University
Emory University: Wilfred Owen (1893 1918)
This site offers only a brief biography and a photo of Owen. What makes the site worthwhile is the number of full texts of Owen's poetry (e.g., "Strange Meeting" and "Futility")and an audio excerpt of a letter that Owen wrote to a friend.
City University of New York
Cuny: Dorothy Parker Rothschild
This biography of 20th century poet Dorothy Parker discusses the many tragedies that impacted her life and the wit that made her writing famous.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick Writing Activity
Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems With Basic Parts of Speech
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing With Prepositions Through Poetry
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
Build a greater understanding of poetry and poet's voice. Develop and interpret a poem for a oral performance. Links include presentation rubrics and participation rubric.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
The important thing about this lesson plan is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetry From Prose
This instructional activity teaches students to create an original poem based on select words and phrases from a prose piece. Also encourages students to model poetic forms after found poems.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetic Form and Structure
This online lesson makes use of concrete poems to teach the structure and form of poetry. Uses a "Columbus Day," theme for the lesson, but can be used any time of the year.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Is a Sentence a Poem?
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to analyze one-sentence poems in order to better understand poetry and how it works. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Grave of Love
Full text of the poem "Grave of Love" by Thomas Love Peacock.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Reading Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
An online lesson plan for middle school students concerning learning reading fluency through oral interpretation. Students read poetry aloud in presentation-form and work together at interpreting the poem, increasing understanding of...
PBS
Pbs: Interactive Poetry
What is interactive poetry? Use this website to learn more about this form of poetry.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Future of the Environment
Colby College offers exercises on the future of the environment from the perspectives of an optimist and of a pessimist provide great practice with the future tense.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
In this lesson plan, students will consider Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: R. Frost's "Mending Wall":a Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
In this lesson plan, students will consider Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Di Ku And/or the Tri Ku [Pdf]
Students use a basic haiku structure to create di-ku and tri-ku poems to demonstrate understanding of a topic. Directions and examples of each are provided.
Other
Mama Lisa's Poetry Page: Eugene Field
For over 100 years, Eugene Field (1850 to 1895) has been one of America's most loved children's poets. His most famous works include "Little Boy Blue", "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "The Duel" (The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat), which...