Poetry


We will study poetry throughout the semester as it pertains thematically to other units.  We will read, discuss, and analyze poetry in class, and then you will be finding your own poetry and analyzing it within a “poetry notebook” to be turned in towards the end of the semester.

On the day the poetry notebook is due, we will have a “Coffee House Day” where everyone will do a “poetry reading.”

The following are handouts on these activities:

poetry-unit-instruction-sheet.doc

Coffee House Day instructions.doc

writing-about-poetry.doc

road-not-taken-sample-notebook-entry.doc

modeling-poetry-essay.doc

Here are some of the poems that we read and analyzed in class:

“Casey at the Bat” http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/casey.html 

the-base-stealer.doc

“The Mirror” by Sylvia Plath–

mirror-plath.pdf

“The Princess” by Sara Henderson Hay ********** This one has an assignment:

the-princess-poem.doc