Contents of the digital download of Poetry Resources:

Introduction & Terminology:1. Poetry Terms Presentation (in Powerpoint & PDF formats)! Includes: ! Imagery Devices (Simile, Metaphor, Personification)! ! ! Sound Devices (Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme)! ! ! Miscellaneous Devices (Hyperbole, Irony/Paradox)! ! ! Examples of how devices are used in song lyrics! ! ! ! “The River” by Garth Brooks! ! ! ! “Crossroads” by Tracy Chapman! ! ! ! “She” by Green Day! ! ! ! “One” by Metallica

2. Practicing Poetic Devices Activity

3. Poetry Devices Presentation Assignment & Grading Rubric

4. Quiz over Poetry Devices

5. Poetry Terms Bookmarks

Reading Poetry for Meaning:6. Using Song Lyrics to Read for Meaning

7. Dissecting a Poem: How to Read a Poem

8. Poetry Reflection: Guided questions to various poems (poems included in “Poem in your Pocket” file)

9. Poem in your Pocket: ! Copies of 50+ Poems by these poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost, Walt ! Whitman, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, ee cummings, William ! Carlos Williams, AE Houseman, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarrell, Carl ! Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Ezra ! Pound, John Ashbery, Theodore Roethke, Margaret Atwood, Frank OʼHara, W.H. ! Auden, Maya Angelou, John Keats, Octavio Paz, Rudyard Kipling, Shel ! Silverstein, Wilfred Owen, W.S. Merwin, Countee Cullen, Edgar Allen Poe, ! Denise Levertov, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Jack Prelutsky, Charles ! Bukowski, Anna Akhmatova, and Seamus Heaney.

Writing Poems:10. 40+ Formulas for Writing (Poetry 911: First Aid for Writing Poetry)

11. Magnetic Poetry Activity

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Dead Poets Society Movie:12. Supplement for the movie “Dead Poets Society”

13. “Dead Poets...” Viewing Questions & Follow-up Activity

14. Quiz over “Dead Poets...” Movie

This download can be purchased here:http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Resources-Bundle-for-Writing-Reading-Understanding-Poetry

For ADDITIONAL Poetry Presentations and Lessons, Purchase the Poetry Resources on CDThe Poetry Bundle CD includes ALL of the files listed above, PLUS:

Presentations (in Powerpoint, PDF, AND Keynote files):15. Reading The War Poets: Wilfred Owen & Randall Jarrell! Includes visuals with the poems.

16. Writing Like Poets: Using William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Margaret Atwood, Ezra Pound, Matsuo Basho, and more to help students write poems.

17. Student Samples of Song Lyric Presentations

Writing Poems:18. Poetry Book Assignment with Grading Rubric & Guidelines

Miscellaneous:19. Word Art Prints to Decorate Your Classroom! Includes files from these poets: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn ! Brooks, Maya Angelou, Dr. Seuss, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt ! Whitman, John Keats, Wilfred Owen, and Randall Jarrell.

20. Most of the lessons in PAGES for Mac format

21. And a file of over 20 lessons Iʼve accumulated over the years.

See the next few pages for visuals of both the digital download and bundle on CD.

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Sample images from the Poetry Resources CD

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