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  • 1: Starting out
    • Where Do I Come From?
    • Long Walk to Forever
    • Greensleeves
    • I Am the Secret Footballer
    • An Introduction to Poetry
    • Writing a Persuasive Essay
    • The Palmist
    • From Film to Literature - Billy Elliot
  • 2: Globally Speaking
    • A Global Language
    • Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown
    • Divided by a Common Language
    • Running with the Ball / The All Blacks
    • Life of Pi
    • The Popular Press / Matty Groves
  • 3: Thorns and Roses
    • A Red, Red Rose
    • True Love
    • Seal-hunting Becomes Tourist Sport in Norway
    • The Luncheon
    • Powder
    • Fairytale of New York
    • Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
    • Lord Randal
    • Blackout
  • 4: Roads Taken
    • Values
    • Masters of War
    • The Hunger Games
    • The Road Not Taken
    • It's Only Rock 'n' Roll... But I Like It
    • The Sniper
    • The Road to Freedom
    • A Dream Deferred / A Raisin in the Sun
  • 5: Somewhere I Belong
    • Mankind on the Move
    • Sonny's Lettah
    • Native Americans / The Pechanga Teach ...
    • The Man to Send Rain Clouds
    • The Homecoming
    • Aboriginal Australians
    • Stolen Children / Took the Children Away
    • Whale Rider / Ta Moko
  • Audio
  • Toolbox
  • Grammar
    • Adjectives and adverbs
    • Prepositions
    • Captal letters and punctuation
    • Contracted forms
    • It/There
    • Articles and nouns
    • Pronouns
    • Verbs: Concord
    • Verbs: Past and perfect tense
    • Verbs: Present progressive
    • Verbs: Revision
    • Do-support / Did-support
    • Tag questions
    • Wh-questions
    • Modal verbs
    • Word order
    • Joining sentences
  • Map quizzes

An Introduction to Poetry


Introduction to Poetry

Textbook Tasks

  • Poetry tasks
  • Written assignment: More about poetry

Extra Tasks

  • Web teaser: Limericks

Listening

  • Listen to Ogden Nash and others reading poems by Ogden Nash
  • Listen to William Carlos Williams reading his own poems

Visual Material

  • Video: Sir Christopher Lee reads 'Jabberwocky'

Articles and Resources

  • Checklist: Poems
  • Enjoying poetry - literary analysis

Links

  • Haiku for people

    http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
    (toyomasu.com)
  • Short biography of Stephen Crane

    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/stephen-crane
    (poetryfoundation.org)
  • Short biography of Lewis Carroll

    http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carroll-Lewis.html
    (notablebiographies.com)
  • Short biography of Ogden Nash

    http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/673
    (poets.org)
  • Short biography of William Carlos Williams

    http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119
    (poets.org)
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