When you look at a poem, what do you see? When you listen to a poem, what do you hear? When you write a poem, what picture do you create? Poetry is the art of carefully selecting and shaping words to paint a picture or create a feeling. A Young Scholar's Guide to Poetry provides a close-up look at poets through the ages and provides the opportunity to interact with their work through the concepts of Structure, Genre, and Language. By exploring a range of poetic techniques & devices, students will be able to both read and create poetry with understanding and meaning. With a 3-day weekly schedule, 32 lessons include biographies of famous poets, explanations of key poetic devices, easy-to-use timeline and maps, poet info-cards and game directions, poetic device cards, poetry puzzle cards, student reviews, answer keys, coloring pages, poetry reading and resource list, and more. A code for downloadable Companion Guide that includes lesson reviews and worksheets, and more. Adaptable for high school as part of a credit to an English course or use as a full-year literature course for Grades 3 - 8. 256 pages, PDF download.
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