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Hello! Welcome to Poetry Tuesday: the day we dip (or dive) into the lovely world of poetry!
Each Tuesday from June 19 to August 21, 2018, I’ll share a Poetry Activity, a Poem Study, plus an Advanced Poetry Lesson. Feel free to enjoy one, two, or all three of these fun resources! (Click on the title links)
Poetry Activity (for kids, adults, and everyone in between): Concrete (Shape) Poem
Poem Study: Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards
Advanced Poetry Lesson: Sonnets, Week 2
Let’s read a poem and study it together!
Not sure how to study a poem? Here are some ideas! Choose one or all of these:
Circle or color-code the words that rhyme!
Eletelephony
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
~Laura Elizabeth Richards
Hungry for more? Check out this week’s…
Poetry Activity (for kids, adults, and everyone in between): Concrete (Shape) Poem
Advanced Poetry Lesson: Sonnets, Week 2
Hello! Welcome to Poetry Tuesday: the day we dip (or dive) into the lovely world of poetry!
Each Tuesday from June 19 to August 21, 2018, I’ll share a Poetry Activity, a Poem Study, plus an Advanced Poetry Lesson. Feel free to enjoy one, two, or all three of these fun resources! (Click on the title links)
Poetry Activity (for kids, adults, and everyone in between): Five Senses Poem
Poem Study: Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Advanced Poetry Lesson: Sonnets (Week 1 of 2)
Let’s read a poem and study it together!
Not sure how to study a poem? Here are some ideas! Choose one or all of these:
Underline words in the poem that describe what the author sees, feels, tastes, smells, or hears.
Summer in the South
The Oriole sings in the greening grove
As if he were half-way waiting,
The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green,
Timid, and hesitating.
The rain comes down in a torrent sweep
And the nights smell warm and piney,
The garden thrives, but the tender shoots
Are yellow-green and tiny.
Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill,
Streams laugh that erst were quiet,
The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue
And the woods run mad with riot.
~Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906)
Hungry for more? Check out this week’s…
Poetry Activity (for kids, adults, and everyone in between): Five Senses Poem
Advanced Poetry Lesson: Sonnets (Week 1 of 2)
Hannah Spuler 