Less than $5 Higher Education Poetry Activities (by date, oldest first)

Celebrate Valentine's Day with this Shakespearean Sonnet Analysis and Creative Writing Activity!

In this creative and engaging lesson plan, students will analyze one of Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets and create their own original poetry inspired by the Bard. This resource provides step-by-step instructions using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. A teacher cheat sheet is also included with full notes on Sonnet 130 so no preparation is needed. Your students will thank you for offering such a fun way to learn about and practice writing poetry!

Product Includes:

- Comprehensive lesson plan

- Copy of Sonnet 130

- Teacher's notes

- Meticulous assignment directions

- Rubric

This lesson is Common Core aligned and appropriate for grades 9-12.

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Also, check out these great Valentine's Day resources from Language Arts Excellence:

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⭐ Valentine's Day Love Song Figurative Language BUNDLE

⭐ Shakespeare Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Valentine's Day "Love Talk" Lesson Plan

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Have fun teaching Hyperboles with this twelve pdfs that defines, illustrates, and explains the concept. Includes: Individual/whole group activities (students illustrate or make videos) Definition Examples Media links with fun Youtubes Images for use with inferencing skills and more... Easy to follow and understand. Engaging and fun way to learn and use hyperboles.

An interactive, engaging 15 slide PowerPoint that defines and illustrates irony. Includes definition, everyday, and real life examples with photos, novel excerpts, and music links. Includes three individual/small/whole group activites for comprehension check.

This individual or group crossword puzzle activity uses 12 terminologies and optional word bank, as well as word bank with definitions handout, that include: Simile The boy ran as fast as the wind. Sentence uses “like” or “as” to make comparisons. Metaphor The construction worker is a prince. An implied comparison between two unlike beings or objects. Alliteration Casey cackled confidently. The repetition of a single letter at the beginnings of words. Internal (Rhyme) Type of rhyme: The groom was soon doomed. Rhyme occurs inside the words of a sentence. Onomatopoeia Ring, ring…went the telephone. Sound words. Hyperbole I was so hungry I could eat an elephant. An exaggerated statement that has no literal meaning. Adjective The ragged, tattered coat. Vivid words that describe. Personification The flowers danced in the wind. Animals or inanimate objects take on qualities of humans. Synechdoche ABCs for Alphabet. Shortened forms of whole words. Adverb The two boys ran quickly. Tells when, where, or why and may end in –ly. Pun Sea captains don't like crew cuts. Deliberate use of words with multiple meanings that creates play on phrases. Oxymoron Long shorts or silent yell. Opposite words are combined to form phrases. Get students to interact with figurative language. Packet includes answer sheet with definitions. Fun introduction, test prep, or assessment for figurative language!

16 page presentation to help students define and understand what a ballad is, how it changed over time, its historical importance, Dand how to write a ballad. Includes: Definition with individual/group activity Examples of ballads throughout time periods Patterns/Rhyme scheme with example Critical thinking & fact based Individual/group activities Write your own ballad individual/group activity Research project with scoring rubric Extra Resources Complete interactive unit for defining, recognizing, teaching and writing ballads. Meets Common Core State Standards.

This Rupert Brooke "The Soldier" [Lesson Activities and Poem] product provides students a chance to experience blind patriotism. In this product, you will find the poem, 8 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 10th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

Summary:

Rupert Brooke, (born Aug. 3, 1887, Rugby, Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1915, Skyros, Greece), English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period.

This 10th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life, their country, and the need to reflect.

This Product Includes:

1. Who is Rupert Brooke? Written Biography

2. The poem has 8 Discussion Questions

3. Brooke Visual Poetry

4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]

5. Group Poem Presentations

6. Ode to...

7. The Patriot

8. Back Talk and much more

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This Aphra Behn "On Her Loving Two Equally" [Lesson Activities and Poem] resource provides students a chance to experience the conflict of love. In this product you will find the poem, 8 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 10th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

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Aphra Behn is a mystery to the academics. She was probably born around 1640? in Harbledown? in Kent, England—died April 16, 1689, London. She was an English dramatist, fiction writer, and poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing.

This 10th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life, their community, and the need to reflect.

This Product Includes:

1. Who is Aphra Behn? Written/Video Biography

2. The poem has 8 Discussion Questions

3. Behn Visual Poetry

4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]

5. Group Poem Presentations

6. Talking About Love

7. Literary Critique of Aphra Behn and much more

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This Aphra Behn "On Her Loving Two Equally" [Lesson Activities and Poem] resource provides students a chance to experience the conflict of love. In this product you will find the poem, 8 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 10th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

Summary:

Aphra Behn is a mystery to the academics. She was probably born around 1640? in Harbledown? in Kent, England—died April 16, 1689, London. She was an English dramatist, fiction writer, and poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing.

This 10th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life, their community, and the need to reflect.

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1. Who is Aphra Behn? Written/Video Biography

2. The poem has 8 Discussion Questions

3. Behn Visual Poetry

4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]

5. Group Poem Presentations

6. Talking About Love

7. Literary Critique of Aphra Behn and much more

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This Galway Kinnell "Ater Making Love We Hear Footsteps" [Lesson Activities and Poem] product provides students a chance to experience what love is and reflect. the poem, 8 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 10th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

Summary:

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 1, 1927.

After serving in the United States Navy, he spent several years of his life traveling, including extensive tours of Europe and the Middle East, especially Iran and France. His first book of poems, What a Kingdom It Was (Houghton Mifflin), was published in 1960, followed by Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (Houghton Mifflin, 1964).

This 10th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life and love and the need to reflect.

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1. Who is Galway Kinnell? Written/Video Biography

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This Robert Browning "2 Poems" [Lesson Activities and Poems] product provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. 2 of Browning's popular poems, 16 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 9th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

Summary:

Born May 7, 1812, London—died Dec. 12, 1889, Venice, Robert Browning, (born May 7, was a major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books.

This 9th - 12th grade canonized set of poems allows students to understand life and love and the need to reflect.

Poems Included:

1. "My Last Duchess"

2. "Porphyria's Lover"

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1. Who is Robert Browning? Written/Video Biography

2. Each poem has 16 Discussion Questions [16 questions]

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6. Dark Love and much more

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