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Break, Break, Break Questions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Break, Break, Break."
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Dulce et Decorum Est Questions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est."
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Her Kind Questions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on "Her Kind," by Anne Sexton.
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders describe and analyze the effects of poetry on readers. They participate in an Internet scavenger hunt, an exercise involving interpretation of poetry through visual art, and an opportunity for students to create their...
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Snowy Evening Poetry for ESL (Elementary, Literature)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, illustrated by Susan Jeffers (2001). This is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations that go with each line of the poem.
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Mardi Gras Madness

For Teachers 8th
CStudents create a sensory chart in on the topic of Mardi Gras. They design a brainstorm web using Inspiration and complete creative writing assignment. Students write a poem about Mardi Gras that is presented to the class at the final...
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Using Rock as Primary Source Material

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers listen to a song which functions as an entertaining primary source. It illustrates the part angry, part irreverent anti-war sentiments of the counter-culture in the late 1960s. After hearing the song, students discuss how...
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Pink Floyd and the Carpe Diem Theme

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners listen to Pink Floyd's "Time" in order to apply the theme of carpe diem to other works of literature and to their own life.
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Differentiated Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students select a method of presenting on a given topic by rolling paper dice which have various presentation methods on them. They produce the activity and share it with the class.
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Poetry of the City

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore Walt Whitman and about poetry. Most importantly, it teach them that poetry is something anyone can write and encourage them to tell the story of their own community in verse
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Superb Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify and compare the characteristics of both Italian and English sonnets. They read examples of each, then write an original sonnet in either the Italian or English style.
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Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create individual poems containing varied line lengths, punctuation, and rhythm, and explain how each contributes to overall effect of the poem.
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Subtraction Rhyme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study a rhyme for subtracting with regrouping from 10's to 1's.
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Imagiste

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students grow toward a fuller understanding of what poetry and time is like as well as a better understanding of their own life by creating a poster poem with images of their own lives.
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So You Want to Be A Poet?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study different types of poetry and then write examples in this unit. They write, among others, free verse, Diamante, Clerihew, and color poems.
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Poetry

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the main characteristics of poetry. They read and discuss a handout on the characteristics of poetry, read the poem, The Road Not Taken, discuss their interpretation of the poem, and research poetry on the Internet.
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Food Chain Chant

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students memorize a poem using various reading strategies to reinforce the concept of the food chain and the terminology associated with it.
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ESL Poetry Unit

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students complete a twelve lesson unit on poetry. They read and respond to different forms of poetry, write a bio poem, complete an online WebQuest, and in small groups present lessons to the class on various types of poems.
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Pieces of the World

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students locate Australia in relation to rest of world, read poem Pieces of the World by Mervyn James, explore kinds of journeys that Australians have made, and examine their effects - the emotions, the realities and the practicalities.
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Poetry & Word Families

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study a word family before listing rhyming words in that family. They use the words to begin developing lines of poetry. They continue writing poetry individually and finally, they illustrate their work using graphic software.
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Freedom

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students brainstorm a list of the freedoms they have living in the United States. In groups, they compare and contrast these freedoms with those of their home country. After completeing a worksheet, they examine lyrics to songs to...
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars analyze poems by Tennyson and Noyes. They identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile. Students create examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and...
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Responding To Literature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes nineteen lessons, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response activities are included for each lesson as well as extension and...
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Language Arts: Creative Writing Devices

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders review sound and rhythm devices and apply them to their own writing exercises. Next, they interpret the poem, "Where I'm From," as an example of a personal narrative. Using their understanding of poetic devices, they...

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