American Literature: Poetry

by Barbara Blakey
This module covers 30 American poets (listed below), teaches students how to read poetry, and provides lesson plans for three levels: Advanced placement, regular high school, and overview.  Students learn seven important steps for appreciating poetry as well as the vocabulary relevant to understanding it.  Plan eight and ten weeks for completion.  There is no additional text to purchase; however, outside resources are necessary.  Internet access is recommended; utilizing the library will be essential.  We recommend reading How to Read Slowly by James Sire.
    • Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley)
      Bryant, William Cullen
      Crosby, Frances Jane
      Cullen, Contee
      Cummings, E. E.
      Dickinson, Emily
      Emerson, Ralph Waldo
      Freneau, Philip
      Frost, Robert
      Holmes, Oliver Wendell
      Lanier, Sidney
      Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
      Lowell, James Russell
      MacLeish, Archibald
      Markham, Edwin
      Millay, Edna St. Vincent
      Moore, Marianne
      Poe, Edgar Allan
      Pound, Ezra Loomis
      Ransom, John Crowe
      Riley, James Whitcomb
      Robinson, Edwin Arlington
      Roethke, Theodore
      Sandburg, Carl
      Taylor, Edward
      Wheatley, Phyllis
      Whitman, Walter
      Whittier, John Greenleaf
      Wigglesworth, Michael
      Williams, William Carlos
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