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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
Website
University of Maryland

University of Maryland: Women's Studies Database: Emily Dickinson Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides the text to more than one hundred poems by Emily Dickinson. It also includes an introduction with a little information about her poetry.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Read, Write, and Analyze Poetry (Haiku and Free Verse Poetry)

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on poetry; it defines free verse and haiku, explains how to write each, and provides examples. It offers a slideshow which provides tips for beginners on how to read poetry, how to identify types of poetry, and how...
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Other

Poetry Analysis for 10th Grade Language Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.
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TES Global

Tes: Poetry: Performing Poetry: "Touch" by Lewin

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable module contains a PowerPoint lesson about how to read and perform the poem "Touch" by Hugh Lewin. A worksheet is provided that will guide students to help them reflect on the poem,...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?

For Students 9th - 10th
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding: Write a Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this assignment, students will write a twelve-line poem using quotations from the first chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Then students will draw a visual representation of the setting...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Love Song

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes the saving of a baby bird and analyzes what drew the desperate bird to her.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem expresses that the act of paying attention to the little things in life is a form of prayer.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Bat

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem describes the nocturnal bat.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: American Cheese

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes the poet's love for American cheese.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem shares the story of the poet wasting time by driving around on a snowy night.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Nights

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
Primary
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online PDF text of the poem "To My Dear And Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet.
Primary
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: "Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online text of the poem "Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick.
Primary
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: "To Celia" by Ben Jonson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online text of the poem "To Celia" by Ben Jonson.
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Other

How to Read Poetry Aloud

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Step-by-step directions are provided about how to read poetry aloud.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Hymn of a Fat Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem shares some imaginary thoughts from the perspective of an obese woman.
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Rules for the Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices

For Students K - 1st Standards
This lesson includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Young scholars will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who...
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Up and Down Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage young scholars in writing up and down poems. An example of an up and down poem is provided.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.

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