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Loc: Poetry 180: Unconditional Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a poem from a young adult reminiscing about past Halloween celebrations.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Kyrie

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem shares a message about an awakening to the world.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Schoolboys With Dog, Winter

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece expresses the happiness of a boy and his dog during the winter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Entrance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this poem, the reader is encouraged to take the chance of entering into a room of the unknown.
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Loc: Poetry 180: How to Listen

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares how to listen carefully to others.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gretel

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, a female fairy tale stereotype from the story "Hansel and Gretel" is examined within twelve stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Eagle Plain

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem about the eagle is shared within six, three-line stanzas. The poem allow the reader to look at the American symbol in a different way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: End of April

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A poem about a baby bird, emerging from its shell, is shared within the five, three-line stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Break

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shares a one-stanza poem about a family that is working on a puzzle together, taking a break from a world with problems.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?

For Students 9th - 10th
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord

For Students 9th - 10th
The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
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Loc: Poetry 180: At the Un National Monument Along the Canadian Border

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes the land and sky along the Canadian border.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Bat

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem describes the nocturnal bat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Did I Miss Anything?

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem shares a teacher's response to a child who wants to know if he missed anything after a day's absence from class.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Neglect

For Students 9th - 10th
This eight-stanza poem describes a neglected fruit tree that will not bear healthy fruit.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Farewell

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem is about trust and distrust.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Partial Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes the restaurant scene of a person sitting and waiting at a table.