Poetry
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Teaching with Fire (List of Contents)

Link – Teach Living Poets —

Poetry Questions and Poems AP Literature 1970 to 2014
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
Batter my heart – (meta) physical Poetry
Poetry Pairs Triplets Quads  —-
Carol Jago Poetry Ideas
Carol Jago Poetry Ideas —
CollegeBoard.July20.Poetry —

Poems as Mentor Texts for Writing Focus Lessons
Compiled by Bill Sowder, Asst. Professor · Ewing, New Jersey, The College of New Jersey
Not sure I got all of these correct since poets were not named.  Feel free to correct me if you find an error.

Ideas: Details.
Knoxville, Tennesee —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —
Ex-Basketball Player —
The Fish —
If I Were in Charge of the World —
My Mother Enters the Work Force —

Ideas: Variety
What’s in My Journal —
Things I Learned Last Week —
January —

Organization
The Garden Year —
All the World’s a Stage —
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere —

Leads
I Care and I’m Willing to Serve —

Conclusions:
The Death of Santa Claus —
Forgotten —
The Lanyard —
The Lion and Albert —

Voice
Hazel Tells Laverne —
Mother to Son —
Little Orphan Annie —
Phenomenal Woman —
First Day at School —

Dialogue
Mending Wall —

Slang
Casey at the Bat —
Clarence —

Onomatopoeia
The Bells  —

Word Choice: Verbs
Do Not Go Gentle —
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings —

Word Choice: Adjectives —
Willow and Gingko —
Absence – Paulo Neruda hyphenated adjective – Not sure which poet is meant here; therefore, I have listed several possibilities.
Absence — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Absence – Claude McKay
Absence – Matthew Arnold

Alliteration
Dream Deferred —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —

Point of View
Mushrooms —
First Day of School — Again, not sure which one.  One chosen, links for several more available
Turning Ten —

Repetition
Annabel —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —

Description: Place
Today —

Compare/Contrast
Ellis Island —
Willow and Gingko —

Poetry and Poetry links
In Envy  of Cows —

Ekphrastic Poetry
Ekphrastic Poetry – Collection
These are .pdf files.  Some of the poetry might need to be re-typed and larger examples of the paintings located on the web.

Auden Musée des Beaux Arts   …
Berryman Winter Landscape  …
de la Mare Breughels Winter   …
Dobyns The Street …
Engle Venus and the Lute Player  …

Fanthorpe Not my Best Side   …
Ferlinghetti The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves   …
Finkel The Great Wave Hokusai  …
Foerster Breughels Harvesters   …
Ginsberg Cezannes Ports    …
Hirsch Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad  …
Jarrell The Bronze David of Donatello …
Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase  …
Langland Hunters in the Snow Breughel  …
Leader Girl at Sewing Machine …
Longfellow The Cross of Snow   …
MacDonald The Bowling Match at Castlemary Cloyne   …
Mahon Courtyards in Delft  …
Mahon Girls on the Bridge  …
Mahon St Eustace  …
Mahon The Hunt by Night  …
Markham The Man with the Hoe  …
OHara On Seeing Larry Rivers Washington crossing the Delaware  …
Snodgrass Matisse The Red Studio   …
Song Girl Powdering Her Neck   …
Stone American Gothic  …
Stone Early Sunday Morning  …
Stone The Forest Fire  …
Stone Three for the Mona Lisa  …
Sullivan Number 1 by Jackson Pollock  …
Swenson The Tall Figures of Giacometti   …
Szymborska Two Monkeys by Breughel  …
The Village of the Mermaids  …
Williams Childrens Games  …
Williams Classic Scene …
Williams Haymaking  …
Williams Landscape with the Fall of Icarus  …
Williams Peasant Wedding  …
Williams The Adoration of the Kings  …
Williams The Corn Harvest   …
Williams The Dance  …
Williams The Great Figure  …
Williams The Hunter in the Snow   …
Williams The Parable of the Blind  …
Williams The Wedding Dance in the Open Air  …

More Poetry
Poetry-MC-Camp-Getting-ready-for-the-AP-Literature-test  …
Totally Like Whatever – Mali, Taylor  –
Ars Poetica – MacLeish, Archibald –  —
Poet Teaching Math and History – Mali, Taylor – –
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey – Collins, Billy– —
Because My Students Asked Me – Mali, Taylor – Taylor Mali
Reading Poetry  — College Board …
The Atlantic Monthly Oedipus Poetry and Jocasta and Jocasta
DID I MISS ANYTHING  (one of my favorites!)
Harlem Renaissance Poems  …
Collection of various poems and songs …
americanliterature.com
A Winter Night – Sara Teasdale

 Links
*Poetry 180 – A Poem a Day for American High Schools (link)
*Teaching Writing – Genre – Poetry (link)
*Poetry Out Loud – Listen to Poetry (link)
*Poetry Foundation.org (link)
*AllPoetry (link)
*PoemHunter.com (link)
*Poetry.org (link)
*Poets.org (link)
*100 Best Poetry Websites and Famous Poems Sites (link)
*Poetry Foundation Online Resources(link)
Twenty-One Poems for AP Literature
The Poet Speaks of Art Harry Rusche, English Department, Emory University.
This project is designed for the students of English 205, “Introduction to Poetry.” (link)
The Poet Speaks of Art  Sandra /Effinger copy of Harry Rusche link for her students
Voices and Visions …
Poetic Forms
Ekphrasis:  Using Art to Inspire Poetry
Pictures from Brueghel – Poems by William Carlos Williams (If this link vanishes, let me know I have saved in a .pdf)
Archive of Recorded Poetry
Open Culture – Library of Congress
Poetry Month – Everything you need
Poetry Idea Engine – will allow you to write haikus, free verse, limericks, and more!
Black Cat Poems – lots of poems listed by author (PS They are not about Black Cats!)
Carl Sandburg – American Songbag – The complete text online

Activities

Charge of the Light Brigade and Disabled
Graham Cracker Poem …
Tone Words and Poems  …
Found Poem Instructions
The_Chain_Poem
Poetry Binder by Sandra Effinger
The Grammar of Poetry by Kim Thurman (TCU 2005)
Senior Poetry Study Guide_08 …
The Grammar of TV and Film …

Extras
What everyone should know About Poetry (cartoon) 1 page version
What everyone should know about Poetry (cartoon) 2 page version

Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories
Rootabaga Stories (additional site)
Poetry
American Songbag

Day One
My apoglies for the material for Day One
listed in the incorrect order. As I was updating,
I deleted all of Day One and the instructions.
I promise I am not disorganized, just clumsy.

What to do if the instructor’s internet goes down.

If the instructor’s internet should go down at some point, please finish whatever we were working on first. Then click on and browse the PoetryLinks to an external site., Short StoryLinks to an external site., and Excerpts from Books Links to an external site. links. Find material that you think would work with your students. 

1 AP Literature Activity
2 The World’s Most Boring Topics …
3 The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling …..
4 Three Levels of Thinking…….
5 The Last Battle
6 The Culture Tree
7 Culturally Response Teaching in the AP Classroom
8 The Danger of a Single Story
9 Spectacular Danai Gurira
10 Introduction to the CED
11AP Course Audit
12 College Board Sample Syllabus
13 College Board Syllabus Development Guide
14 ap22 note Q3 Literary Analysis Question
15 Unit Guides CED
16 Official Fifty-Five Word Short Story Rules
17 55 word short story samples
18 Diversity & Inclusion and Equity & Access Seven Forms of Bias in Instructional Materials
19 Big Ideas and Lit Devices
20 AP Literature Exam Revisions
21 Gender Mix Novels
22 Seven Forms of Bias in Instructional Materials.
23 AP Scoring Rubic
24 Of the 36 to 42 literary words on FRQ 3
25 Savvas Author Ernest Morrell
26 Score Calculator

Day Two
1 The Sun Goes Down on Summer by Steve Lawhead
2 One Pager Idea for above poem
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4 Another Possibiity for There Will Come Soft Rains.
5 Key Questions CED
6 Key Questions Course Skill without Activities
7 Converting past prompts to new prompt language
8 Old Prose Prompts Rewritten Stable Wording
9 Poetry 2024 Set 2
10 Scoring Rubics
11Analyses of Scores 1 and 2
12 CED Instructional Approches
13 Instructional Strategies
14Teaching Strategies for Limited Class Time
15 Make it Stick (video)
16 The Missing piece instructions and student sample
17 The Missing Piece (Video)
18 Close Reading A Vendetta pdf
19 A Vendetta Guy de Maupassant
20 A Vendetta Lesson Plan
21 Create a Lesson base on a Short Story of your Choice.
Choose a short story either from Short Story resources Links to an external site. or one you already know and would like to teach. Begin work on a lesson plan to teach the story. This can also be the beginning of a Unit on Short Stories if you wish. Be sure to consult the CED Unit Guides Links to an external site. and CED Key Questions Links to an external site. to help pick the level of difficulty you want. You may black out your screen and mute yourself as you work asynchronously. I will remain available the entire time if you have questions or need assistance.
22 Prose set 2 2024
23 AP Lit Poerty Prompts with Poems
24 AP Lit Prose Prompts with Passages
25 AP Lit Open Prompts
26 Line of Reasoning
27 Sophistication Point
28 Scoring Bump 2022
29 The AP Exam Behind the Scenes
30 Summer or Indepedent Reading
31 AP Titles

Day Three AP Classroom Resorces and Description
2 Overview of AP Classroom Resources
3 Q3 2024 set 2
4 I am offering this poem
5 Carol Jago Poetry Ideas
6 MIST Illustrating the Complex through Evidence
7 More Dangerous Air using MIST
8 Pop Music in Sonnet form
9 Soliloquy Project
10 Abandoned Farmhouse
11 Speaker/Narrator/Perspective
12 Tone is important?
13 Tone Words
14 Harlem Renaissance Poems
15 Sandburg and Hughes
16 Fooling with Words
17 You are quoting Shakespeare
18 Alternative Questions for Poetry
Create a lesson based on Poetry

CB Topic: Choose poems either from the Poetry link Links to an external site.   (if you scroll down, you will locate links to a lot of poetry) or ones you already know and would like to teach.  Begin work on a lesson plan to teach the poems.  This can also be the beginning of a Unit on Poetry if you wish.  Be sure to consult the CED Unit Guides Links to an external site. and CED Key Questions Links to an external site. to help pick the level of difficulty you want.
19 Sonnets and Social Justice
20 Absurdist Poetry
21 I Am Waiting
22 Keeping Quiet
23 Ode to the onion
24 Ode to my socks
25 Twenty-One Poems for AP Lit
26 Essay Ratiocination
27 A Think Aloud
28 Sample IPR
29 Biblical Allusions
30 Mythical Allusions
Day Four
1. Student Samples (Important I must remove these by the 15th of August.)

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2024 1

2024 2

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