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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Simple Formula Poems: Diamonte

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Diamantes are poems that form a diamond-shape, and they are often about two opposite ideas. Write to topics of your choosing using a DIAMANTE or if you need help with a topic, click on the topic generator for ideas. Really try to include...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
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Other

George Herbert, Priest and Poet

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography focuses on Herbert's life in the church and on his character. His poetry is discussed as an extention of his faith.
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Website
Other

Goucher College: George Herbert, "The Temple"

For Students 9th - 10th
From material for a college course, this site provides an overview of Herbert's "The Temple," as well as noting issues that affect some individual poems. There are also some research suggestions.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry instructional activity on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessment Follow Up

For Teachers 2nd
After an assessment, it is important to correct any misunderstandings that may have become evident. This lesson focuses on skills from previous lessons that need to be reinforced such as telling time, shape attributes, and adding...
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: American Literature by Morris Dickstein

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article by Morris Dickstein traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century to the late 20th century. It includes a section for each century providing historical...
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Unit Plan
W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Introduction to the Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...
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Website
Other

George Herbert

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a fairly comprehensive site produced by college students. It includes a biography of Herbert, an example of his work, and an annotated bibliography.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Sacred Poets: George Herbert's Personality

For Students 9th - 10th
This scholarly site analyzes Herbert's work and compares it to the writings of several of his contemporaries. Viewers should note that there are four separate pages about Herbert, linked at the bottom of each page.
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Website
Other

Broken Toyland: The Art of Valery Milovic

For Students 9th - 10th
Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.
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Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Birds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Come and check out this resource featuring printable materials on birds. This site includes poems, shape books, questions for reading comprehension and more.
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Handout
Other

Cummings Study Guides: How Shakespeare Prepared Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn many of the elements which Shakespeare used, or took into consideration, as he wrote the original manuscripts of his plays. How did he shape the English language with new words, how did he evoke settings when plays used few or no...
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Other

Pitara

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
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eBook
Other

Western Michigan University:george Herbert, "The Collar"

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Herbert's poem, "The Collar," in modern English. A link takes the viewer to the poem in its original spelling.
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: George Herbert (1593 1633)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Luminarium site provides biographical information, as well as links to Herbert's writing, and to essays about his works. Excellent site.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss story? Web English Teacher may be offering you resources to teach it right here! Also contains links to biographical information.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Handwriting for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, lesson ideas, and interactive activities.
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Professional Doc
Teachnology

Teachnology: A Variety of Printable Handwriting Worksheets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this resource to print activities and worksheets for handwriting.
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Website
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "A Priest to the Temple"

For Students 9th - 10th
From a scholarly work, this page from Bartelby.com discusses Herbert's "A Priest to the Temple," and shows it as a reflection of Herbert's own character.
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Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Website
Other

Applit: Resources for Appalachia Literature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Resources for readers and teachers of Appalachian literature for children and young adults that includes lesson plans, texts, bibliographies, and so on.

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