Poetry and Song Analysis

If you have tried TPCASTT before, but have not had success this might be the lesson plan and prezi you need to get your students interested in poetry and able to access the huge variety they may get on the AP Test. This 6-7 day unit gets your students to access poetry through looking at a favorite song and comparing it to a poem that has appeared on the AP test in a slideshow format. Students will unknowingly encounter over 40 poems in 6 days and feel prepared to practice and write for the AP Literature Test. They will be engaged from start to finish, and no one will feel like they tied a poem to a chair and beat with a hose as Billy Collins likes to say. Enjoy poetry again and get your students to, too!

Looking for more AP Literature Resources?  Check these out:

• AP Literature Units Bundle
  • AP Literature Book Club
    • Literary Merit Book Notes Bookmark Pamphlet

• • Literature Deepening Assignment Project
  • Comparing The Handmaid's Tale, The Awakening, and A Doll's House Lesson Plans
  • Sonnets, Hamlet, and Critical Theory
    • Sonnet Booklet and Prezi

• • Post-AP Test Creative Writing Unit

• AP Literature Introduction Unit 
• Habits of Mind: Class Introduction
• Immigration, Muslim Perspective, Kite Runner, and Thousand Splendid Suns
• Modern-Day Afghanistan with Hosseini’s Novels
• AP Literature Test Editable Review
• Book Review Shmoop Snoop
• Beowulf and Lord of the Rings after AP Lit. Test Lesson Plans

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