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Poetry study guides for Microsoft Word
COTTAGERS AND INDIANS -- Drew Hayden Taylor (Play)
But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.~Drew Hayden TaylorLooking for an engaging, entertaining, and enlightening play?Hayden Taylor is a well-known Indigenous storyteller using various media for which he has received praise and awards. He loves “to explore and teach through humour.” (xi) It is his trademark, and his humour will make you laugh and, perhaps, step on your colonial toes
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: INDIGENOUS STUDY BUNDLE: 5 Authors & 5 Genres
Canterbury Tales Prologue Reading Guide
This packet contains a five-page reading guide which groups questions according the sections of the Prologue, the Introduction, the individual pilgrims, and the Conclusion. It also contains a few graphic organizers and an analysis of the social classes represented in the selection. It is designed for students who may otherwise have difficulty with comprehension of this work and contains line numbers for reference and an answer key.
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11th - 12th
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain text and study guide questions
This is Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" along with a study guide and answer key.
The questions vary in difficulty, with some of them quite challenging.
Suitable for advanced 10th graders, or 11th and 12th grade students.
Having the text with the study guide in a Word document makes this easy to email to someone who does not have their textbook.
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The Odyssey Bundle | Activities, Assessments, Unit for The Odyssey
Teach The Odyssey with a variety of activities, assessments, and tools. Add these downloads to your unit study for The Odyssey.You can see additional previews, details, and images in the individual pieces of this The Odyssey bundle:Introductory activities for The Odyssey:√ Background concepts: • Western Literature • The Iliad • Homer√ Domain-specific vocabulary: • Epic poem • Epic simile • Epic hero • Didactic pentameter • Pun • Metis • Hubris • Epithet • Media Res • Rh
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7th - 10th
AP Exam Literature and Poetry Term Review
This document contains well over 100 literary and poetry terms that I have taught my students over the duration of my year-long AP Literature and Composition course. It is meant as a review, not as the first exposure to these terms, as the initial notes they are drawn from are far more extensive. All the terms are defined as concisely as possible.
Hope it helps your students prep for the test as it does mine.
I've been teaching a very successful AP Literature program for 9 years that I sta
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12th, Higher Education
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A Stone is Nobody's Theme, Identifying Tone and Mood ONE PAGER
Students have trouble truly grasping the idea of tone and mood. While the use of Pixar shorts and Disney Trailers are a classroom favorite, there comes a time to move toward literature. A Stone is Nobody's by Russel Edson proves to be a fantastic stepping stone in this process. His word choices give the students a concrete view of how words create the author's tone and thus the mood. While I have included a copy of the poem for smartboard projection, this resource goes beyond whole group discuss
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6th - 10th
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - poem with 12 questions
This is a set of study guide questions for "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. These can be used as a review activity or as the students read independently. Contains the complete poem, 12 questions, and a key. Focuses on the elements of a pastoral poem.
Used primarily with 10th graders, though all levels of high school students could use it as well.
The questions hit different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, allowing the students to reflect upon what they read, as well a
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9th - 12th
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Anne Bradstreet - Dear and Loving Husband and Upon the Burning study guides
This is a bundle of two poems by Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Upon the Burning of Our House." I've included the poems, along with a 20-question study guide and answer key.
The study guide has questions of various levels of difficulty, from relatively easy to quite challenging.
Works as a good take-home assignment, or something for the students to work on individually in class. Questions could also be used for discussion.
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11th - 12th
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Kubla Khan - Coleridge - Study guide questions and text
This is a the text of "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge along with 10 study guide questions. These questions can be assigned as classwork, homework, or used as discussion questions for the poem. The questions focus on the contrasting imagery and symbolism within the poem.
Includes an answer key for the questions.
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Beowulf Study Guide Questions Packet
50 questions total covering each major battle in Beowulf poem and can be used as a study guide, worksheet, homework assignment or test review. The questions are short-answer responses with a mix of analysis and comprehension and can be used with any Beowulf text. The questions require students to look closely at the text and with some quote analysis as well. Answer Key included. 50 Questions are organized by the following sections: The Battle with Grendel (10 questions)Grendel's mother (5 questi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Beowulf Test and Review Pack
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne W. Houston Guided Reading Worksheets by Mrs. Nick
If you want a ready-to-go packet of worksheets for the entire memoir Farewell to Manzanar (including one related poem by Dwight Okita), you will love my collection of 10 guided reading worksheets with answer keys that I created and currently use for my English II class (I believe they would be appropriate for any grade from 8-11). This file contains 10 guided reading worksheets that require detailed answers to questions throughout each chapter, as well as vocabulary from several chapters. Thes
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8th - 11th
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Ode to Enchanted Light Comprehensive Study Guide
Handout to accompany "Ode to Enchanted Light" and "Sleeping in the Forest" featured in HMH Collections textbook. Includes sections for Check for Comprehension, Vocabulary, Guiding Questions, and Analyzing the Text.
Can be used as a study guide as well!
Lots more resources to go with HMH Collections Textbook!
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6th - 9th
Also included in: HMH 7th Grade Collection 3 "Nature at Work" BUNDLE
Thanatopsis - full poem, study guide questions, and key
This is the text of Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant. Included is a study guide with 19 questions of varying difficulty. The answer key for the questions is included.
This is suitable for advanced 10th graders, 11th grader, and 12th grade students.
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Icarus's Flight by Stephen Dobyns Poetry Study Guide and Questions and KEY
This study guide on Stephen Dobyns' poem "Icarus's Flight" includes background and informational text (including poetry definitions) necessary to understand and analyze the poem. Dobyns proposes a very different and radical interpretation of the myth, "The Flight of Icarus." This study guide will hep students to decipher the poem. The last page has 10 thoughtful questions which can be used as the basis for class discussions. I do not give a teaching duration for this because it depends on l
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7th - 10th
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Canterbury Tales Graphic Organizer
This three-page assignment guides students through The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by allowing them to identify the indirect and direct characterizations of Chaucer and giving them the class hierarchy of the time. The handout provides examples of direct and indirect characterizations and a vocabulary review as pre-reading activities. It also allows students to draw conclusions about the social commentary made by the characterizations and relate the pilgrims to modern people.
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11th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet - Study Guide for 9th Grade
Romeo and Juliet is indeed a fabulous play to teach to our kids. I noticed during the 34 years I taught this play that many young English teachers tended to shy away from this work of art because of the archaic language. My advice is to jump in and enjoy The Bard's best! This humble study guide is the result of teaching this play to 9th graders since the early 80's. It worked for me! Note: Recently, by request, I have put together a separate answer key for this Study Guide. It is available at
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9th
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Marlowe & Raleigh ~ Passionate Shepherd Poem Pairing Worksheet
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and Sir Walter Raleigh's poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" are paired off side by side for some comparison/contrast work for students as well as to spur oral discussion and writing in class. I routinely use this with Senior English, but have also had success with AP classes and Freshmen English (with teacher guidance).
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9th - 12th
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Daffodils by William Wordsworth - Study Unit
A set of fun and educational activities based on the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud..". These activities / worksheets can be used with a wide level of ages and abilities. Some of the activities are basic, suitable for younger children and EAL learners. Other tasks are quite challenging, and demand a deep understanding of the poem.
The pack consists of
1. Cloze Test. A simple prose summary of the poem in "fill in the blanks" format. There is a word bank to assist students.
2. Information
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5th - 7th
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"Selected Poems of Robert Frost 1913-1923": Text and Study Guide
Includes the texts and study materials for twenty-five of Frost’s best and most popular poems including: “Into My Own”, “Storm Fear”, “Mowing”, “The Tuft of Flowers”, “Reluctance”, “The Pasture”, “Mending Wall”, “The Death of the Hired Man”, “Home Burial” and “After Apple-Picking.”Ready to be printed for class use in a Work file that is easy to adapt.1. Original Introduction to Frost's Poetry (not shown in Preview)2. Pre-reading prompts - topics for thought and discussion;3. The text of each of
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8th - 11th
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World War I Poetry - Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfried Owen
This is a set of poems from World War I by Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfried Owen. Includes 7 poems, over 40 study guide questions, and the answer key.
These can be used for classwork, homework, study guides for an exam, or test questions.
The poems included are:
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Suicide in the Trenches
Does it Matter?
Dulce et Decorum Est
Arms and the Boy
Anthem for Doomed Youth
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"Crossing the Water" by Sylvia Plath: A Study Guide
"Crossing the Water" by Sylvia Plath: A Study Guide by Sylvia Plath: A Study Guide is a book-length guide (57,000 words approx.) to Plath's famous collection of poems published after her death. It aims to support close reading of these sometimes complex and difficult poems. The book may be used by individuals reading and reflecting on this text alone as well as by groups and classes reading, discussing and studying it.There is a detailed introduction to Sylvia Plath's poetry with an emphasis on
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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"The Wanderer" Guided Analysis/Study Guide Questions/Answers
This is a break down of the Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Wanderer". This explains how to break the poem to understand it section by section. There is also a set of 8 study guide questions that breaks each line down and answers are provided for each question.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Poetry packet for secondary ELA - literary devices, poems, responses w/KEY
The packet includes a page of literary terms (students fill in definitions from your lesson). Students absolutely love this poetry unit because it includes teen, slam, modern, and classic poetry to teach the skills of tone, symbolism, idioms, rhyme scheme, assonance, alliteration, consonance, similes, metaphors, personification, imagery, line breaks, and the art of haiku. Students also have opportunities to create their own poems.Some of the more familiar poems included in the unit are:We Real
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7th - 11th
Renaissance Poetry Explication Guide
This packet includes a reading guide for Renaissance poetry from William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick and John Donne. It includes a note-taking guide for the common themes of the period and the literary devices such as understatement, hyberbole, and turn. It also includes explication guide questions for 13 poems and a paraphrasing guide for a Shakespearean sonnet. This guide may be adapted for students' needs and abilities, and it is ideal for
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11th - 12th
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Poetry encourages students to engage with language, explore their thoughts and feelings, and connect with the broader human experience. If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital poetry resources, look no further. TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
If you want to make poets out of younger students in elementary grades, then acrostic poems or fill in the blank poems are the perfect place to start. (In fact, many poetry resources on TPT include templates so your students can easily get started producing their own poetry, whether it’s a haiku, or limerick.) For older students in middle and high school, you can find an array of resources to teach them about everything from iambic pentameter, figurative language, to famous poets from history. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your students’ poetry skills in no time.
Fun and engaging poetry activities to try
Teaching students about poetry can be an engaging and creative experience. Here are a few ideas for poetry activities that you can find on TPT to help you introduce and explore the world of poetry with your students:
Poetic Device Scavenger Hunt
Distribute some poems and have students identify and highlight poetic devices like similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Discuss what these are and the overall impact on the reader's experience.
Poetry Analysis Jigsaw
Divide students into small groups, assigning each group a different poem. Have each group analyze the assigned poem's themes, tone, and literary devices, and present their findings to the class.
Poetry Slam or Performance
Organize a poetry slam where students can perform poems they’ve written themselves or those written by famous poets. This will help build confidence and strengthen their public speaking skills.
Writing Poetry from Different Perspectives
Ask students to write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to foster empathy and encourage creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Creating Found Poetry
Provide magazines, newspapers, or online articles. Have students cut out interesting words and phrases, and use them to create their own unique poems.
These (and other!) activities can help deepen your students’ appreciation for poetry and enhance their creative writing skills.
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