Mr-Skipper | Poetry

POETRY

Poetry Terms pdf

Many AP teachers LOVE TP-CASTT. I'm not one of them, but here's a good handout for it.

Here's one called POETS which is nice.

But the one I find to be the most natural is called FRACTIONS.

Reading Essential Questions

How do authors use figurative language to create sensory details, and how does this affect the reader’s mood?
What is the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) with regards to the meaning of a poem?

Readings

If you can't find the poem, keep looking. "The Road Not Taken" is under R.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

City Autumn by Joseph Moncure March

Dear Basketball by Kobe Bryant

De Donde You Soy by Levi Romero

text (online)

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

If by Rudyard Kipling

text

(read by Michael Caine)

If you were coming in the fall by Emily Dickinson

text

(sung by Klein Oak Choir Contare Women arranged by Frank DeWald)

I like to see it lap the miles by Emily Dickinson

text

(sung by Guang-Ting Yau)

I Am Nobody, Who Are You? by Emily Dickinson

text

nine page analysis

My Mother Really Knew

Mother to Son

text (online)

text (pdf with If We Must Die)

video

Common Lit Assignment (online)

Common Lit Assignment (pdf)

A Magic Unseen

poem and questions

Moments by Andrea Torres

text (online)

No Boxes

No Boxes (video)

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

text (online)

text (pdf)

Scene from The Outsiders (video)

Oranges by Gary Soto

poem, bio, and activities

Poem for Two Voices

text (online)

Remember by Christina Rossetti

(sung by the Cantamus Girls Choir)

The Road Not Take by Robert Frost

(nice video with good imagery)

The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats

(read by Dumbledore)

Slam, Dunk, Hook

video - author reading

Where I'm From

(link to poem and background)

Model Poem (pdf)

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