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Because They Asked
Simple instructions — the starter — great them when they enter the classroom. Complete: “Poetry is…”. Write at least five facts about poetry. Then complete “Poetry isn’t…” and write five more things...
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My English I Honors students have just finished up a four-week poetry unit, which is in a way one of my favorite units we do. It’s not just that I love poetry, which I do, or that I hope to instill in...
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Day 47: Quartets and Cars
Quartets This afternoon, while cleaning up the kitchen, putting away groceries, and just generally puttering around the house, I discovered a BBC culture podcast that talks about, among other things,...
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Today, we finish up our poetry unit, going over my all-time favorite poem, Elizabeth Bishop’s villanelle “One Art.” The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to...
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Discovery
We started working on poetry this week. I always begin with the same poem: Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched...
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