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The Art of Poetry

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    Conversation 1: Why Study Poetry? (Preview Content)
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  2. Conversation 2: Understanding Poetry through Poems
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  3. Conversation 3: Poetry and Faith
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  4. Lessons & Activities
    Lesson 1: Images (Preview Content)
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  5. Activity 1: Images (Preview Content)
  6. Lesson 2: Metaphor
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  7. Activity 2: Metaphor
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  8. Lesson 3: Symbols
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  9. Activity 3: Symbol
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  10. Lesson 4: Words
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  11. Activity 4: Words
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  12. Lesson 5: Sound
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  13. Activity 5: Sound
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  14. Activity 6: Rhythm
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  15. Lesson 6: Rhythm
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  16. Lesson 7: Shape
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  17. Activity 7: Shape
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  18. Lesson 8: Tone
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  19. Activity 8: Tone
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  20. Lesson 10: Verse Forms
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  21. Activity 10: Verse Forms
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  22. Lesson 11: Shaping Forms
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  23. Activity 11: Shaping Forms
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  24. Lesson 12: Emily Dickinson—A Case Study in Form
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  25. Activity 12: Emily Dickinson
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  26. Lesson 13: Open Verse
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  27. Activity 13: Open Verse
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  28. Lesson 14: Walt Whitman—A Case Study in Open Verse
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  29. Activity 14: Walt Whitman
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  30. Lesson 15: Narrative Poems
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  31. Activity 15: Narrative Poems
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  32. Growing Student Interest in Poetry
    Lesson 16: Growing Student Interest in Poetry
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  33. End of Course Test
    End of Course Test: The Art of Poetry
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  • Discuss some of the misunderstandings that many people had about Emily Dickinson.
  • How is Emily Dickinson an inspiration for how educators and students might cultivate themselves? How does she inspire you?
  • How is having poetry critiqued like a surgery? How might it help your students to know that even Emily Dickinson faced a surgery of sorts on her poetry?
  • Read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s poem, I dwell in Possibility, by Emily Dickinson (page 159). What can you do with poetry?  Compare and contrast poetry and prose together.
  • How does poetry give you lots of opportunities to do lots of things at once?
  • How might poetry help your students to cope with great pain?
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