Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Middle Ages: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on the literature of the Middle Ages. It focuses on two essential questions of study: "How is the poetry of the middle ages characteristic of the culture? and How did the English Language change during...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism in British poetry and short stories. Although the works in this unit vary in style and themes, each reflects disorder and an attempt to create a new reality. The unit looks...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180
Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. Poet laureate Billy Collins has selected these poems with high school students in mind.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition
This is an introduction to a unit on writing in various genre including Nonfiction, Narrative, Literary Writing, Short Stories, and Poetry. Analysis of "The Odyssey", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Romeo and Juliet". Click on the View links...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction
This is an introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and his major contribution to Middle English literature in The Canterbury Tales. He is known as ""The Father of English Poetry." The essential questions for the unit focuse on his skill with...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: American Romanticism
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on American Romanticism, from about 1800 to 1850. It defines the types of writing of the period and the power of poetry including the Fireside Poets: Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet
This is an introduction to a modern poetry unit; it features links to poetry and technology standards and a list of key terms. The essential questions for the unit focuses on the characteristics of contemporary poetry, how poets use...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Literature Unit: The House of Dies Drear
"The House of Dies Drear," is a powerful novel by Virginia Hamilton.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 23: The Poetry of Jim Morrison
This lesson is designed to help students recognize how lyrics by the rock-poet Jim Morrison connect with themes from diverse and respected traditional works. While William Blake's influence on Morrison is often noted, this lesson focuses...
Library of Congress
Loc: Evening Literary Series: Billy Collins
Watch a cybercast of poet laureate Billy Collins' poetry reading at the Dec.6, 2001 Library of Congress Evening Literary Series. He reads a selection of both his old and newer works. This cybercast is a great introduction to the poet and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Stanley Kunitz
This site from NPR gives a brief introduction about poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, followed by a link to an interview with him during National Poetry Month, 2001, you will need to scroll down this page which contains all the segments of...