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Writing Fix: Ballads About Relatives Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ballads About Relatives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write 4-lined ballads about their relatives.
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The Kennedy Center: The Poetics of Hip Hop Unit Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: The Poetics of Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets and hip-hop music. Concepts viewed in-depth include rhythm, form, diction, and sound. [Requires QuickTime 7].
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Uen: Song Writing Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Song Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern Unit Plan
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern

For Students 9th - 10th
Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is central to our experience, and often brings us pleasure. We can find pleasure in the rhythm of a song, or even the rows of an orchard. Of course, too...
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Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf] Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
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Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
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Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter Unit Plan
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time- and still speak today....
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Teach Engineering: Swinging on a String Lesson Plan
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Teach Engineering: Swinging on a String

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release. In an associated literacy activity, students explore...
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Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Influence of Folk Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Influence of Folk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site, which explores the influence of musical folk traditions in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen, provides lesson plans, a biography, examples of Hughes' poetry, and details about his meeting with Nicolas Guillen.
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