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Rock & Roll through Literary Terms: An Upbeat Lyrical Adventure

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their...
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Poetry Group Activity

For Students 10th - 11th
In this Romeo and Juliet worksheet, learners complete a group project by creating a poem on an assigned topic relating to themes found in Romeo and Juliet.
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Imagery and Sound Devices: In Preparation for Reading Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders analyze Ray Bradbury's use of techniques and elements of fiction as well as nonfiction in the novel Dandelion Wine. In this novel analysis lesson, 12th graders analyze the sensory techniques in Dandelion Wine. Students...
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Social Movements in American Politics

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students explore American social movements. In this writing skills lesson, students read Orwell's "Politics and the English." Students then apply the rules for writing that are included in the piece. Students follow-up by completing a...
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Colorado Animals Newsletter and Directed Web Page

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students select a Colorado animal, develop a Directed Web page, and research their animal. Each member of the group combine their research and develop a Newsletter.
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Personalized Poetry Portfolio

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create their own poetry portfolio containing poems that relate to Students' lives and families. The portfolio consist of the following types of poems: acrostic, diamante`, haiku, cinquain, and free verse.
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Figuring Out Frost

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read "The Runaway" by Robert Frost and analyze it for its literal and symbolic meanings. They compare their personal experiences with the poet's suggestions about youthful attitudes and behaviors. Some nice worksheets are...
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Making Poetry Writing Fun!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars find a group of words from an unlikely source and turn them into a poem. They discuss the central image in two well-known poems by Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. They write their own short poem expressing one...
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Poetic Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a poetic analysis on a poem by Carl Sandburg. They take their previous knowledge of poetic devices and apply them to a piece of writing that displays their knowledge on a specific poem. They explain what they know about a...
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Poems for Every Season

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read and explore autumn poetry. In this poetry lesson plan, students read Autumnblings and are introduced to different poetic forms. Lesson includes ideas for exploring the poetic forms presented in the book and cross-curricular...
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Teaching Selected Poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the basic elements of poetry through Appalachian life poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read seven poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems and complete poetry analysis activities for each poem.
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Transcendentalism and Epiphany in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the characteristics of transcendentalism. In this transcendentalism lesson, 12th graders determine what this type of writing entails before reading a passage from, Ray Bradbury's, Dandelion Wine. They cite three...
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Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students complete poetry analysis activities. In this poetry analysis instructional activity, students consider the use of imagery and sound devices in poetry. Students translate poetry into another art, read a diverse selection of...
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Haunting Music

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover music that was inspired by the spooky and bizarre. In this music of Hector Berlioz and Camille Saint-Saens activity, students identify elements of music and listen to the Symphonie Fantastique and Danse Macabre....
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Poetry Analysis Lesson and Rubric

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Analyzing poetry can be done using a variety of techniques that tap into student's prior knowledge.
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Imagery and Emily Dickinson

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore imagery, particularly in relation to figurative language.
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Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils read a sample found poem and create one together as a class. In this Great Depression lesson, students select a topic, such as miners, and read primary source documents related to the topic. Pupils select one narrative as the...
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Identifying Figurative Language

For Students 5th - 10th
In this figurative language worksheet, students identify figurative language in the sentences and explain their answers. Students complete 10 problems.
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Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry. Students complete...
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Reading Lesson Plan

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read the poem "Still I Rise" and discuss the different ways it can be told and read and brought to life. In this poetry lesson plan, 10th graders read aloud and silently, and compare different works of poetry.
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Out of the Dust: Figurative Language

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students find examples of figurative language in "First Rain" in Out of the Dust.  In this Out of the Dust lesson, students takes notes on various type of figurative language and identify examples of each type in the poem.
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Personification

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a activity about personification. They read passages from Charlotte's Web  which are connected to the concept of looking for key words to name the character. Students review the definition of personification, and write...
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Figurative Language 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read nursery rhymes and advertisements to identify examples of figurative language. As a class, students discuss the use of figurative language and its effectiveness in advertising, children's books, rhymes, poetry, etc. ...
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Recognizing Similies: Fast as a Whip

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review what they have already learned about similies and begin to engage with similies on a deeper and more abstract level as they create their own.

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