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Worksheet
Curated OER

Literature Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this literacy learning exercise, students look for the words that are part of the word search puzzle that is focused around the theme of the sheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reverie

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the poem "1755", answer questions on vocabulary, and talk about creating things with the imagination.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Traveling the Transcontinental from Yesterday to Today

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the impact of the train on the physical landscape and spatial organization of America. They read and analyze various poems, analyze maps, and develop a list of the positive and negative changes brought by the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Presidents: Past and Present

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify George Washington and the current president and distinguish between past and present events. They listen to a text about Washington and make predictions. They generate a list of synonyms for past and present and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry: Imitation As The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students pick a poet to conduct research from. They read and recite one of the works of poetry. Then using critical analysis find methods of construction in order to create a similar personal poem. The poem is then posted on the internet...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Five Simple Poems

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students listen as the teacher explains what poetry is as well as describes several types of poetry such as haiku, free verse, limerick, cinquain, and an acrostic. Students read examples of each type of poetry. They compose a poem...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Know Your Poets

For Students 4th - 10th
In this poets worksheet, students read short poems and then choose the correct poet that wrote it. Students complete 6 multiple choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Letters From Emily Dickinson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent lesson plan in which students study and analyze the letters that Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson and to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, as a method of understanding her poetry in a deeper sense....
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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eBook
ibiblio

Ibiblio: E Book: Poems by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an e-text of the first published selection of the poems of Emily Dickinson (1830?1886) originally appeared in 1890, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The text contains 115 poems and can be searched by...
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Unit Plan
City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Melani: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage is a handout for a course on Emily Dickinson's poetry. It features information about Dickinson's life, her poems, her style, and her themes including: the inner world; death; pain, separation, and ecstasy; love; God and...
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Unit Plan
City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Emily Dickinson: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is actually the study guide for the Emily Dickinson section of a course titled "The Emergence of the Modern," taught at Brooklyn College. Though it is written for college students, it should be accessible to high school...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Video on the life and works of poet Emily Dickinson highlighting her literary contributions which often challenged many of the common beliefs among her peers. Click on "Emily Dickinson Activities" for related materials. Part of a...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Emily Dickinson and her poetry. It includes links to a Discovery Education video: "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: An Overview of Her Work" (registration required) and four of...
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eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are the full texts of three books of Emily Dickinson's poetry, edited and published posthumously by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. (Only Ms. Todd edited the last book.) These texts include prefaces...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (26 poems), Love (28), Nature (31), and Time and Eternity (40).
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (47 poems), Love (16), Nature (41), and Time and Eternity (42).
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (45) poems), Love (22), Nature (29), and Time and Eternity (49).
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Unit Plan
City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Melani: Emily Dickinson: Death

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" followed by an analysis of the poem.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Emily Dickinson including a biography, the full text of three poetry collections: Poems, Series 1, Poems, Series 2, and Poems, Series 3, each set of poems is listed by topics.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Emily Dickinson Poems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-page PDF of poems by Emily Dickinson. It includes seven poems and a link to the audio of one of them.
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Website
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief biography from Ibiblio.org provides details about the very private Emily Dickinson. Describes her efforts to publish her poem and how Dickinson's sister found more than 1,700 poems stuffed in a drawer after Emily's death.
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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poet Emily Dickinson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As part of a unit on Emily Dickinson and her poetry, this classroom activity provides a brief classroom project and includes lesson plan ideas, web links, and additional texts.
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a brief biography of Emily Dickinson, as well as a link to the full texts of several poems and the dates they were written including: "Fame is a Fickle Food," "I Heard a Fly Buzz," and "The Soul Unto Itself."

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