This is a detailed course assignment where students are asked to choose a poem from those provided and prepare an analysis of it prior to presenting it to the instructor. Students are given guidelines for an essay up to 3 pages long, and lots of examples for poetic devices to watch for, strategies for monitoring their responses as they read their poem, and tips for determining word meanings. RL.9-10.4 Word choice, Tone

Concepts

poetic devices, reading poetry, poetry

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Additional Tags

analyzing poetry, poem analysis, structure of poem, understanding poetry, word choice in poetry, gordon state college, rl.9-10.4 word choice, tone

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

Common Core

RL.9-10.4