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Poetry |
Poetry Archives |
Webquest: A Life’s Journey Through Poetry |
100 Poets Against the War: This Month |
Poets Read: Poets perform poems
from Bill Moyers PBS Special |
Poetry Slam, Inc.: host of the National Poetry Slam Contest
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Poetry Alive: poetry performance resources/magazine |
LitFinder
register for a free two-week trial subscription |
Poetry Daily: new poems every day |
Project Bartleby: poems without copyright (older than 100 years) |
20th century poetry
homepages for 157 poets
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Study of rap lyrics in the English classroom |
Poetry units
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Poetry Forge: lots of teacher resources
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Pizzaz: writing different types of poetry
especially for ESL learners |
KillDevilHill: lots of on-line poetry |
Academy of American Poets: lots of resources
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Webquest: Poetry Pursuit Webquest: Poetry Pursuit |
Favorite Poem Project |
Poetic license: poetry slams/performance |
Poetry 180
a poem a day for American high schools |
Hypertext Poetry |
Internet Poetry Archive |
Poetry Society of America
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Poetry / Writing forum |
Poetry Writing: 10 tips |
The Atlantic Online / poetry pages |
Poetry Archives (an educational resource) |
Electronic Poetry Center |
Every resource for every poet |
An Incomplete History of Slam |
Modern American Poetry
An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry |
a celebration of poetry through technology |
Ideas for teaching basic poetry |
Teaching Haiku Poetry (links, resources, ideas) |
Teaching Haiku to 9th grade |
Poetry Express
tips on writing, technique, sharing, revising, and publishing poetry |
Online Poetry Classroom
Secondary school teachers create curricula and lesson plans that have been tested in the classroom. |
Teaching the Beat poets |
Americans saying poems they love |
Web-published poetry for adolescents |
Found Poems/Parallel Poems (grades 6–8)
This ReadWriteThink lesson requires students to understand and be able to select passages with strong descriptive qualities and to pick out the best words, phrases, and lines from their passage to create their product. |
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Words through Diamante Poetry
In this lesson plan, students explore the powerful words of one of the world’s most passionate speakers. In the process, they have the opportunity both to investigate the deep meanings of King’s words and to choose words that they find powerful themselves as they compose their own poems in response to King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. |
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Tales of Wonder |
Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales |
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at USM |
Folklore, Myth and Legend |
The Camelot Project |
Fairy Tale Group Page |
Hans Christian Anderson: Fairy Tales and Stories |
Fairy Tales: Audio Texts |
Famous Poetry Online |
eMule.com: Poetry Archives |
Poetry Critical: Online Poetry Workshop |
The Princeton Poetry Project |
Kalliope Poetry Workshop Exercises |
Intertextuality and Poetry |
Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance |
Poetry 180 |
Hypertext Poetry |
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Poetry Resources |
Poems by Adolescents and Adults: A Thematic Collection for Middle School and High School
This collection of student poetry is an enjoyable and accessible resource for planning classroom activities, promoting lively discussion, and engaging students in thinking about how poetry can be meaningful in their lives. |
Teaching Poetry in High School
Albert B. Somers offers a vast compendium of resources, including more than 40 complete poems, as well as discussions of assessment issues, poetry across the curriculum, and poetry on the Internet.
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Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students
This book by Judith Rowe Michaels features classroom-centered strategies on topics including writing and reading poetry “with the body” and creating and assessing a poetry portfolio. |
Dancing with Words: Helping Students Love Language through Authentic Vocabulary Instruction
Judith Rowe Michaels’ Dancing with Words invites teachers and students to taste and hear and move to the music of words. |
Studying Poetry: Activities, Resources, and Texts
This book by Brian Moon emphasizes analysis and inquiry activities tied to poems ranging from the fourteenth century to today, by the likes of Shakespeare, Frost, Plath, Levertov, and others. |
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Student Units
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Poetry Unit
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Teaching poetry |
Online Poetry Classroom |
Elaine Showlter, Teaching Literature [chapter on teaching poetry] |
Academy of American Poets [resources] |
Poetry Society of America [resources] |
About Poetry [lots of links] |
Lloyd, C. V. (2003). Song Lyrics as Texts to Develop Critical Literacy. Readingonline. |
Intertextuality and Poetry |
Teaching Poetry: A Forum with Hugo McCann |
Library of Congress: 1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions |
Library of Congress: Enhancing a Poetry Unit with American Memory |
Dealing with issues of vocabulary in a high school World Literature course |
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Poetry workshop web resources |
Poets.org: Tips for teaching poetry |
Poetry unit: Conflict and War |
Unit: Poetry writing |
Unit: Reading poetry for pleasure |
Poets.org: Poetry lessons |
Poets.org: Essays on teaching poetry |
Teaching Authurian legends |
Poetry Teachers |
Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems |
Acrostic Poems |
Diamante Poems |
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NCTE Classroom Notes: The Celebration Poem |
NCTE Classroom Notes: Poetry Models Expand and Inspire |
NCTE: Teaching poetry: links/resources/books |
GURU English: Interpreting Poetry |
Poetry Class |
Poetry Magic |
The Poetry Society |
eServer: Poetry |
Creating Poetry Videos |
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Online poems/poet links |
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry [lots of links by poet] |
30 Days of Poetry: Studying different types of poems |
Links to poets |
African-American poets |
Anthology of Modern American Poets |
American Verse Project |
Twentienth Century British Poetry |
Poets and Writers |
Poetry Daily |
American Verse Project [organized by poet] |
Favorite Poem Project |
Poet's Corner |
Poetry collections |
Poetry from around the world |
Light & Dust Poetry Anthology |
The Poem Tree anthology |
Contemporary Poetry Review [online poets] |
Bartleby: Classical British and American poetry |
Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance |
Electronic Poetry [Lots of poetry links]
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The Internet Poetry Archive
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Online Poetry Classroom: 341 Great Poems to Teach
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Poets and Writers
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University of Virginia [online texts --stories, novels, and poems--]
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E-Poets.net [also audio]
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PBS: Bill Moyers: Fooling with Words [also audio]
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Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, 2004
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Poetry 180: A poem a day for American high schools
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Poetry on the Web
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UpWordsPoetry [high school students’ poems]
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Google [ online poetry sites]
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Poetry archives |
Bartleby.com: poems |
Yahoo [different poetry magazines with poems for adolescents] |
University of Toronto: Representative Poetry Online |
Native American Poetry |
Poems that go: Online visual poems |
Poets.org: Poems to teach |
Norton Poets online |
Dial-a-Poem: links to poetry audio files |
World War I Poetry |
Emily Dickenson Archive |
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Online audio poems |
Garrison Keiller: A Writer's Almanac [daily poetry reading] |
Digital Audio Archive [liteature and poetry] |
Audiobooksforfree.com |
Wiredforbooks.org |
Project Gutenberg: E-books |
HarperAudio |
Favorite Poem Project |
Academy of American Poets: Listening Booth |
UCBerkeley Library: Audio files |
Bard College: Conjunctions [contemporary writers] |
Electronic Poetry Center: Soundpoetry |
The Internet Poetry Archive |
Sound Poetry |
Random House |
Poetryhifi |
The Missouri Review |
The Cortland Review |
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Poetry jams/performances |
poetryslam.com |
An Incomplete History of Slam |
DefPoetryJam |
PBS: Bill Moyers: Fooling with Words [poets performing] |
Mr. Donn Lesson Plans: Conducting Poetry Slams |
Apple iLife: Virtual Poetry Slam |
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Poetry Magazines/Journals/Criticism |
Electronic Poetry Center [lists of poetry magazines] |
The American Poetry Review
Contemporary Poetry Review
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The Boston Review |
Poetry Magazine |
The Literary Review |
Webdelsol |
Slope |
The Blue Moon Review |
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Poetry lessons |
Poetry lessons for 12 familiar poems |
Figurative language [Lots of links] |
Webquest: Ars Poetica |
Unit: Discovering Robert Frost |
Understanding the Basics of Poetry |
Hundley, J. (2004). Uncovering truths beneath a found poem. The Quarterly. |
Wilhelm, J. (2003). Poetry doing hard and healthy work: A poetpourri of ideas from the Miane Writing Project. The Quarterly. |
Jester, J. (2003). Of paint and poetry: Strengthening literacy through art. The Quarterly. |
Woods, K. (2002). Channeling emotion: One way to make poems out of feelings. The Quarterly. |
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Discovering poetic form and structure using concrete poems |
Behind the mask: Exploring cultural and self through art and poetry |
Graffiti wall: Discussing and responding to literature using graphics |
Yale/New Haven Teachers: Poetry units |
Webquest: A Life and Journey through Poetry |
Webquest: Poetry pursuit |
Teaching the Beats Poets |
Unit: Teaching found poems |
Virtual Poetry Workshop [lots of activities] |
Young Poets: Analyzing figurative language |
Teaching poetry lessons |
Poetry Forge: Poetry Tools in Action |
The English Teacher: Teaching Basic Poetry |
Online Poetry Classroom: Lesson plans on poetry |
Teaching Native American Poetry |
Outta Ray's Head [Lots of poetry lessons] |
Poetry lessons for middle school students |
WhyPoetryWhat: Internet poetry for middle school students |
Teaching dramatic poetry |
Lesson: Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet |
Lesson: Poetry of World War I |
Lesson: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" |
Lesson: Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" |
Lesson: Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy |
Lesson: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Studying the Harlem Renaissance |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture through Art and Poetry |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering a Passion for Poetry with Langston Hughes |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Poetic Form and Structure using Concrete Poems |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Poetry: Sound and Sense |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Different perspectives on America in poetry |
Lesson: Introducing Metaphors through Poetry |
Lesson: Introduction to Modernist Poetry |
Lesson: Emily Dickenson poems |
Lesson: Analyzing Emily Dickenson's letters |
Lesson: The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You |
Lesson: Using visual poetry |
Lesson: Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes |
Lesson: A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? |
Lesson: Japanese Poetry |
Lesson: The World of Haiku |
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Writing Poetry |
Teachers and Writers Collaborative: Virtual Poetry Workshop: Modules on writing poetry
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Poetryexpress: Teaching poetry writing |
Young Poets: Resources
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Words Work Network [resources on writing poetry] |
Writing Haiku poetry
schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/haiku.html
haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/
home1.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm
www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku4.htm |
Writing narrative poetry
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Writers in the Schools [poets teaching poetry writing] |
Teachers and Writers Collaborative: Poets on Poetry |
Local writers' organizations [for contacting local writers] |
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Teaching Tales, Fables, Folklore, Myths |
The Encyclopedia Mythica
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American Folkfore
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American Folkfore: Myths and Legends
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Aesop’s Fables
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Tales of Wonder
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Myths and Legends
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Web English Teacher: Teaching Greek mythology
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Creation myths
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Regional Folklore and Myths
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Special Topics in Folklore and Myths
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PBS Program: George Lucus and the Power of Myth
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Study guides: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
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The Hero’s Journey
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Web English Teacher: Teaching the Illiad/Odessey
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Beowulf [lessons]
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Snow White: Lessons for studying different versions
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Cinderella: Lessons for studying different versions
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Scholastic: The Myths Brainstorming Machine [students construct myths]
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Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
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Unit: Teaching the epic through ghost stories |
teaching mythology |
Common Visions, Common Voices: folklore from different cultures |
Classical Mythology : accompanying textbook materials |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Teaching myths in The Way to Rainy Mountain |
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