Resources- Unit 2 - Exploring Poetry

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Articles/Texts

Required Text (Used for Practice Comprehension Quiz + Practice Connotation Analysis
1 Still I Rise - Maya Angelou Download Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
Optional Texts - Read/Listen/Watch at least 4 from the list below
2 The Rose That Grew From Concrete - Tupac Shakur Download The Rose That Grew From Concrete - Tupac Shakur
3 The Border: A Double Sonnet - Download The Border: A Double Sonnet - Alberto Rios
4 Storm - Olisha Starr Download Storm - Olisha Starr
5 Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market - Pablo Neruda Download Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market - Pablo Neruda
6 Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins Download Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins
7 I, Too - Langston Hughes Download I, Too - Langston Hughes
8 Dreams - Langston Hughes Download Dreams - Langston Hughes
9 This is a photograph of me - Margaret Atwood Download This is a photograph of me - Margaret Atwood
10 Mowing - Robert Wrigley Download Mowing - Robert Wrigley
11 "Hope" is the thing with feathers - Emily Dickinson Download "Hope" is the thing with feathers - Emily Dickinson
12 Digging - Seamus Heaney Download Digging - Seamus Heaney
13 The Owl - Edward Thomas Download The Owl - Edward Thomas
14 In Flanders Field - John McCrae Download In Flanders Field - John McCrae
15 Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen Download Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
16 Choices - Tess Gallagher Download Choices - Tess Gallagher
17 Learning to Love America - Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Download Learning to Love America - Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
18 Famous - Naomi Nye Download Famous - Naomi Nye

Extra Resources

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Video Representation (The Owl, In Flanders Field, and Ducle et Decorum Est)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkTo9u0Mjs Links to an external site.

2

Video Representation (Choices)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Vw_clMS3k Links to an external site.

3

Weighing In - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tKCjqbXTU Links to an external site.

4

Learning to Love America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp9C3slA3s0 Links to an external site.

5

Famous - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFuH4o2yxXw Links to an external site.

6

The Art of A Metaphor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM Links to an external site.

7

Tone Wheel Download Tone Wheel

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List of Literary Terms Download List of Literary Terms

 

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