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TES Global

Tes: Forms of Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide students with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: One Day a Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: All in a Week

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This poem discusses the adventures taken while reading during a single week. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Three Sons in Law by Johann Karl August Musaus

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Three Sons-in-Law by Johann Karl August Musaus (1861), a long illustrated poem about her three sons-in-law.
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Handout
Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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Website
Other

Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-text of Charles Lamb's enchanting 1811 narrative poem is illustrated with period drawings from the original edition.
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Primary
Other

Dutch by Kay Ryan

For Students 9th - 10th
This narrative poem retells the Dutch folktale about a little boy who saved his country from flooding by poking his finger in a dike.
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Activity
Other

Robert Frost: America's Poet

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.
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eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Verse Project provides this full text version of Longfellow's famous poem, "Song of Hiawatha.
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eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of "The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, originally published in 1859.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. This portrait is attributed to Joseph Taylor, and dated to...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Stratford portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets,...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Homer. Of all the writings that describe this Heroic Age, the most important are the two great narrative poems,- the Illiad and the Odyssey, -attributed to Homer.-Colby, 1899

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