What does the Genesis story of creation and temptation tell us about gender, about heterosexuality, and about the origins of evil? What is the nature of God, and how can we account for that nature in a cosmos where evil exists? When is rebellion justified, and when is authority legitimate? These are some of the key questions that engaged the poet John Milton, and that continue to engage readers of his work.

Emphasis on the analytical reading of lyric poetry in England and the United States. Syllabus usually includes Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Lowell, Rich, and Bishop. This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to techniques of persuasion and of honest evidenced sequential argumentation. Poets to be read will include William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and some contemporary writers.

Consideration of some substantial twentieth-century poetic voices. Authors vary, but may include Moore, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, and Pound. This course considers some of the substantial early twentieth-century poetic voices in America. Authors vary, but may include Moore, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, and Pound. We'll read the major poems by the most important poets in English in the 20th century, emphazinig especially the period between post-WWI disillusionment and early WW II internationalism (ca. 1918-1940). Our special focus this term will be how the concept of "the Image" evolved during this period. The War had undercut beliefs in master-narratives of nationalism and empire, and the language-systems that supported them (religious transcendence, rationalism and formalism). Retrieving energies from the Symbolist movements of the preceding century, early 20th century poets began to rethink how images carry information, and in what ways the visual, visionary, and verbal image can take the place of transcendent beliefs. New theories of linguistics and anthropology helped to advance this interest in the artistic/religious image. So did Freud. So did Charlie Chaplin films. We'll read poems that pay attention both to this disillusionment and to the compensatory joyous attention to the image: to ideas of the poet-as-language-priest, aesthetic-experience-as-displaced-religious impulse, to poetry as faith, ritual, and form.

A PowerPoint to introduce patterns in poetry; including pyramid poems; Haiku and Tanka. Activities for students to complete.

In this lesson, students present to an audience (RF.5.4). This may take longer than the allocated 50 minutes, depending on the number of students in the class.
This event could work in different ways: All students could present to the audience one by one, or students could be situated on individual stations in a larger room to present. Consider what will be most successful in your situation with your students.
In this unit, the habit of character focus is on contributing to a better world. The characteristic students are reminded of in this lesson is apply my learning, because they are sharing what they have learned about human rights with an audience.
The research reading that students complete for homework will help build both their vocabulary and knowledge pertaining to human rights. By participating in this volume of reading over a span of time, students will develop a wide base of knowledge about the world and the words that help describe and make sense of it.

A collection of 8 poems that use personification. The Word documents have each poem in plain text and illustrated. There is one Word document that has has all 8 reduced in size. The PowerPoint presentation has all 8 poems with background pictures. The poems are:City Jungle - Pie Corbett; Daffodowndilly - A A Milne; Fog - Carl Sandburg; Jack Frost - C E Pike; Snow and Snow - Ted Hughes; Great Water Giant - Ian Souter; Windmill Poem - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Tractor Poem - Valerie Worth

Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.

Currently, poetry is something we teach "if there is time" at the end of the year. I would love to make poetry a more integral part of the 1st grade curriculum. Poetry is currently taught by the students reading a preprinted packet of poetry and the students knowing that they are poems.  It's a very archaic way of teaching it, and I would love to change that.

The students are introduced to poetry throughout our curriculum (Scott Foresman Reading Street) through songs and curriculum poems, but are never specifically taught what makes a poem. This blended unit will change that! This unit will fall at the end of the 1st grade school year.

Created By: Katharine Valz

The Poetry Techniques and Features lesson includes information on Similes; Metaphors; Personification; Hyperbole; Alliteration etc Poetry types - haiku; tanka; clerihew

Week 24, Day 1--Day 4
Poetry: Zombies! Evacuate the School! - “Bad Words”
Today we’ll return to our book of poems, Zombies! Evacuate the School! You’ll remember that all the poems were written by one poet, Sara Holbrook.
*Planning Notes
This poetry unit focuses on a particular poem each day. You will need to display the poem using a document camera so the students can actually read it with you. If you want to add additional poems from the text, feel free to do so.

*Planning Notes: This poetry unit focuses on a particular poem each day
Introduce Book
This book of poems is called Zombies! Evacuate the School! All the poems were written by one poet, Sara Holbrook.
WEEK 5 Day 5 - Week 6 Day 2
Poetry: Zombies! Evacuate the School! - “Back to School!”
The first poem is about coming back to school after a long, boring summer.

This seminar addresses the inherent challenges of translating poetry from different languages, cultures and eras. Students do some translation of their own, though accommodations are made if a student lacks even a basic knowledge of any foreign language.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Maya Angelou. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?

Students will discuss works of art that have grotesque elements and symmetry in their design. They will identify symmetry and line in grotesques. Students will create symmetrical designs for a pilgrim bottle and also design a door panel using grotesques. They will then analyze William Blake's poem "The Tiger" and write their own grotesque-inspired poetry.

This 6-unit subject gives students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the poetry of two living Nobel Laureates: the Caribbean poet, Derek Walcott, and the Northern-Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. We will begin and end the semester with their magnificent epic works: Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, and Walcott's Omeros (a modern epic set in the West Indies). Between these major narrative poems, we will read a rich selection of their shorter poems, as well as some of their reflections in prose on what poetry does, on what other poets do, and what it means to write in English from the historical and political situation of Northern Ireland (for Heaney) or the Caribbean (for Walcott).

This collection uses primary sources to explore Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Introduce Book and Preview Technical Vocabulary:
This book is written as a poem. At the end of the poem there is a lot of information written about water. The book was written by Barbara Shaw McKinney and illustrated by Michael Maydak.
Model a Comprehension Strategy and Ask Questions During Reading
Engage Students in Discussion
Update Text Structure Anchor Chart
Teach Sentence Composing
Assign or Model Written Response
Review and Share Written Responses
Planning Notes
This “crossover” book is an unusual combination of poetry and content. It will allow you to address multiple standards.
The last 4 pages are nonfiction with a lexile of 820 (grades 4-5). This material is likely to beyond the reach of third graders and is not included in the lesson plans.

Develop or Activate Background Knowledge:
--Our book is called Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. It was written by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Beatriz Vidal. It tells a story but it is also a special kind of poem. Each page will repeat some of what has been read so far and then add something new. A set of lines that work together is called a stanza. There’s a stanza on each page, and some of the lines are the same. The story is set in Africa, and it is all about the need for water. It has not rained in a long time. The story is a fantasy because what happens could not occur in real life.
Model a Comprehension Strategy and Ask Questions During Reading
Engage Students in Discussion
Update Text Structure Anchor Chart
Teach Meaning Vocabulary
Teach Sentence Composing
Assign or Model Written Response
Review and Share Written Responses