Romantic Poets (poets.

org):
-

Leonie Adams
John Ashbery
William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson
John Keats
Alfred Noyes
Edgar Allen Poe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats

Poet of the week (could use this for my unit)

Poetry slam thing from Bronx masquerade
- Ooh! Theres an idea! Have the different types of poetry readings throughout the decades
(1800s pub style, 1960s coffee house style, present day poetry slam)
- music is poetry lesson
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/teacher-resources/websites.php
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/teaching-resources/lesson-plans
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poets
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-romanticism
http://www.poetryslam.com/content/what-poetry-slam-inc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/sonnet/spenser.html
http://www.poetrysoup.com/

Well start at the beginning of the poetrypoetry introduction

Collaborative writing activity in SMAGfound poem/blackout poetry
Poetic stereotype comes from Romanticism (tortured and melancholy visionary)
Dr. Seuss (?) could be considered poetry; has rhyme
Found Poem a found poem consists of words found in one text and rearranged in a new text to form a
poem. The idea behind using the found poem for literary analysis is to have readers focus on the
language that they find most significant, meaningful, and important in a literary work they are reading,
extract it, and create a poetic work of their own that distills the meaning that they find in the original.
When produced in small groups, found poems serve as a vehicle for reading carefully and discussing
what language is most critical to representing the meaning that they find in literature (Smag, 40).

I could have Bronx Masquerade as a text during the poetry section (its also all about different
individuals) Could also use Ellen Hopkins works since they are in verse.
Different types of poetry:
- Sonnet
- Haiku
- Pantoum
- Villanelle
- Sestina
- Limerick
- Ballad
- Blank verse
- Graphic
- Free verse
Have students bring in a poem? Their favorite?
Naming poets
What was the description of poetry from Intro to Christian Writing??? It was on image/imagery and was
the most beautiful description of a poem Id ever heard.
Stanza types:
- Couplet (two lines)
- Tercet (three lones)
- Quatrain (four lines)
- Cinquain (five lines)
- Sestet (six lines
- Septet (seven lines)
- Octave (eight lines)
Analyzing a poem
- Stanza types
Rhyme type:
- End rhyme
- Feminine rhyme
- Masculine rhyme
- Off rhyme (near rhyme, slant rhyme)
- Internal rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
consonance
Rhythm types:
Pauses
- Caesura
- End-stopped
- Run-on (enjambment)

Cadence
Meter types:
- Iambic
- Anapestic
- Trochaic
- Dactylic
Metrical units:
- Monometer (one unit)
- Dimeter (two units)
- Trimeter (three units)
- Tetrameter (four units)
- Pentameter (five units)
- Hexameter (six beats)
- Heptameter (seven beats)
- Octameter (eight beats)
Correlation with music (has a beat); beats are like quarter notes, has rhythm; music is poetry, poetry is
music of a different kind; poetry is the music of language
Musical terms that parallel poetry:
- Accent
- Tempo
- Beat
- Bridge
- Caesura
- Crescendo
- Decrescendo
- Encore
Most musical terms are in Latin, Italian, French, and German (majority Romance languages)
Poetry Analysis:
When We Two Parted Lord Byron
- Octave
- End rhyme
- Tetrameter (?)
- Four stanzas
- Ababcdcd (pattern)
Print copies of this poem for students to put in their daybook
Definitely going to do the found/blackout poetry activity
Make a vocabulary page of musical and poetical terms
Discuss the freedom of expression in romantic poetry
Going to need MAJOR examples (photocopy creative writing papers on poetry?)

To Print:
Poetry sheets/examples from creative writing class
Vocabulary sheet (organize that)
Copies of When We Two Parted (one for analysis and one for found/blackout poem)
Crossword activity:
Terms total: 64
Crossword holds max of 50
10-20 terms
Haiku
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Enjambment
Foot
Stanza
Free verse
Iamb
Meter
Rhyme
Rhythm
Sonnet
Pentameter
Couplet
End rhyme
Slant rhyme
Limerick
Tetrameter
Off rhyme
Class is 60 minutes
Writing into the day 3-7 minutes
Crossword intro activity 5-10 minutes
Poetry analysis
Found/blackout poem/silver out poem

Poetry Analysis:

When We Two Parted Lord Byron

- Octave
- End rhyme
- Tetrameter (?)
- Four stanzas
- Ababcdcd (pattern)
Poetry form:
Stanza
Meter
Rhyme
Stanza types
Stressed/unstressed syllables
Stanza types:
- Couplet (two lines)
- Tercet (three lones)
- Quatrain (four lines)
- Cinquain (five lines)
- Sestet (six lines
- Septet (seven lines)
- Octave (eight lines)
Metrical units:
- Monometer (one unit)
- Dimeter (two units)
- Trimeter (three units)
- Tetrameter (four units)
- Pentameter (five units)
- Hexameter (six units)
- Heptameter (seven units)
- Octameter (eight units)
Fancy Stanzas:
- Sestina
- Pantoum
- Villanelle
- Sonnet

Should I have examples of each poem? YES