Connecting the Visual to the Verbal in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Poetic Forms
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Appendix 1
  9. Appendix 2
  10. Appendix 3
  11. Resources for Teachers
  12. Resources for Students
  13. Notes

Examining Poems about Love and Loss

Karen W. Scher

Published September 2010

Tools for this Unit:

Resources for Teachers

Modern American Poetry http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/

This online journal and online companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry is valuable to teachers and students alike. The site offers analysis and commentary on a wide range of poems, mostly from the 20 th and 21 st centuries.

Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org

This website is another wonderful location for finding and understanding poetry. I particularly like their "Poetry Tool", where you can search for poems by title, author, occasion, glossary term, or most popular. Also, the "Learning Lab" offers annotations and analysis of many poems.

Poets.org http://www.poets.org

Created and maintained by the Academy of American Poets, this website is my first stop when looking for online versions of poems dating back to Shakespeare. The Academy also offers poetry writing contests for high school students.

Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org

Maintained by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), this website has a wealth of lesson plans on many subjects, including poetry.

Sonnet Central http://www.sonnets.org/

This website is also very helpful to all teachers and students studying the sonnet. Almost all of the sonnets referred to in this curriculum unit can be found at this website.

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