Students can expect to become familiar with the following terms: stanza, rhyme scheme, sonnet, couplet, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, alliteration, consonance, assonance, symbolism, personification, and many more. 

Students will also gain insight into the literary period of English Romanticism and into the biographic details of all six poets.  

My passions are writing and poetry, and it's my great joy that my five kids can quote Shakespeare and Longfellow. So many students claim to "hate" poetry, but that's often because poetry is difficult to understand. My goal is to give students the tools they need to unlock poems. Like John Keats suddenly understanding Homer once he read the English translation, I want my students to look "...at each other with a wild surmise/ Silent, upon a peak in Darien." 

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Each week, students are expected to read a selection of poems and respond to a prompt in the classroom. 
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