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The Art of Poetry

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  1. Conversations

    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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Lesson 12, Topic 2
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Discussion Questions

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  • Choose a few words from the vocabulary list on page 65 and discuss their use in poetry. Refer to God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins to observe some of these vocabulary terms in action.
  • How can a teacher be prepared to discuss more about poets’ lives and times in history, which both deeply impact their poetry?
  • Discuss how wonder is the beginning of all learning and how this is connected to questioning.
  • Discuss how mastery of the tools needed for the art of poetry can be playful. Play a rhyming game together.