Poetry

Lesson plan for peer review of the comparison essay's first draft.

Lesson plan on the five steps of close reading, applied to Donne's "Break of Day" and Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."

Lesson plan on analogy in poetry, with Adrienne Rich's "Storm Warnings" and a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Lesson plan on rhythm, meter, and scansion, with a poem by John Donne.

Lesson plan on scanning Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break" and how its meter shapes its meaning.

Lesson plan on the conceits of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

Lesson plan for the first day of the poetry unit. How poetic language differs from ordinary language, read through Robert Hayden's "The Whipping."

Lesson plan on Dudley Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham" and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow."

Lesson plan for close reading Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us."

A fill-in review of Perrine's first three chapters: what poetry is, reading the poem, and denotation and connotation.

A fill-in review of imagery, figurative language, and allusion.

Short-answer questions on the parts of a word, denotation, and connotation.