Poetry

Lesson plan on sound, denotation, and connotation, with an exercise and poems by Langston Hughes and others.

Lesson plan for editing the comparison essay's second draft for grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Lesson plan on simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, and metonymy in poems by Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.

Lesson plan on symbol and allegory, with controlled readings of poems by Robert Frost and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Lesson plan on paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony, and satire, with Shelley's "Ozymandias" and a poem by Billy Collins.

A longer lesson plan on imagery, with poems by Robert Hayden, William Carlos Williams, and Emily Dickinson.

Lesson plan on recognizing imagery and how it adds to a poem's meaning, beginning with Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays."

Lesson plan on how to approach an in-class essay in the AP style.

Lesson plan on Billy Collins's "Introduction to Poetry" and what it says about how students read poems.

Lesson plan on the kinds of imagery in Keats's "To Autumn," with practice on multiple-choice questions.

Lesson plan on alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rime, with Brooks's "We Real Cool" and Hopkins's "God's Grandeur."

Lesson plan on poetic structure: continuous, stanzaic, and fixed forms, the limerick, the sonnet, and the villanelle.