10 poems to read on National Poetry Day In honor of National Poetry Day, TED-Ed asked writing teachers at the San Francisco Writers Grotto to recommend their favorite poems worth sharing. Below, a short poetry reading list for TED-Ed learners of all ages. Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, recommends: “Design” by Robert Frost For younger readers, I would go with some of the easier Robert Frost poems, which would set the stage for the more complex ones. “Design” is a great one for middle school students, allowing a good discussion of imagery and metaphor and rhyme (when it works and when it doesn’t) and structure … and the lessons of nature. Caroline Paul, author of Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, recommends: Billy Collins, in general Poetry is about concision, beauty — and the sudden swerve that tweaks the reality we thought we knew. Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, recommends:
10 Ways To Use Poetry for English Language Teaching Online This is in celebration of National Poetry Month and springtime. My daffodil image is in honour of one of the first poems I learnt as a child called ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud‘. We are, perhaps, less lonely here in our cyber-cloud online, which just serves to enhance our ability to appreciate poetry in the modern age. Today I will share some experiences, resources, and ideas about teaching with poetry. 1. When I first decided to teach online in 2010, I made facebook a place to build up my online presence. We tried acrostic poetry, topic-based free form poetry, and shared ideas on using limericks or Haiku poetry. This kind of synergy spread like wild fire and literally changed the way our language learners could experience English. As this work was all voluntary, it cannot be seen as sustainable in the long-term. 2. (Must have /deduction and use of modal verbs in the past). Between Us I must have hurt you. by my arrogance.. and you must have forgiven me by your patience.. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Shadow Poetry - Poetry Types Introduction What Is Poetry - This section contains a definition of poetry, poetry is... quotes, and other helpful definitions for beginning poets. Poetry Quotes - An enjoyable collection of famous poetry quotes along with quotes from previous Shadow Poets. Traditional Poetry Forms - Displays a handful of traditional poetry forms. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding. All examples were provided by previous members of Shadow Poetry or Egroup (when Shadow Poetry was an interactive web site). More definitions for related poetry items may be found in the Shadow Poetry Handbook (link located above). Invented Poetry Forms - As a bonus, Shadow Poetry feature poetry forms created by selected poets as new and challenging writing styles.
Using music and songs | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC Songs sung in English are listened to around the world and students can often feel real progress in their level of English when they can begin to sing along to the chorus or even just to be able to separate what at first seemed to be a constant stream of words! I am going to split this article into using music and using songs and I will share twelve of my favourite activities with you. Before bringing music into the class, it may be worthwhile to do a music survey or questionnaire to find out what the students enjoy listening to. As much as possible try to use music they will like. I have found that the students’ motivation levels are the determining factor in whether or not a song will work with them. Using musicMusic in the classroom doesn’t always mean listening to a song and using the lyrics in some way. Set the scene: If music is playing as students enter the class it can be a nice way to settle the group. I hope that at least some of these ideas will be good for your classes.
Poems by poetic form Skip to mainSkip to navigation Abcedarian The abecedarian is a poetic form from pre-Biblical times. Each line or stanza starts with the letters of the alphabet in sequence. Acrostic An acrostic is a poem or song or any piece of writing in which (usually) the first letter of each line (or sentence, or paragraph) spells out a word or a message. Alexandrine The alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet; one foot longer than the iambic pentameter. Alliteration Alliteration refers to the use of similar sounds to begin a sequence of words, e.g. spick and span, kith and kin, jump for joy. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighbouring words, to create the effect of rhyme within phrases or lines of verse. Ballad Ballads are narrative folk-songs or folk poems made up of simple four-line stanzas, usually rhyming abcb. Blank Verse Blank verse is a type of verse with a regular metre (usually iambic pentameter) but no rhyme, hence ‘blank’. Bush ballads Caesura Elegy Epic Free verse Haibun
The 11 Best UK Poets You've Never Heard Of — Partisan By the Editors PAUL MULDOON DOESN'T need you. Nor does Alice Oswald. Simon Armitage? Aces, thanks. Whatever celebrity our culture still awards poets, these figures already claim an outrageous share of it—more advocacy will scarcely raise the water-level of their fame. Dorothy Molloy Recommended by Andrew Jackson Dorothy Molloy did not live to see the publication of her debut collection, Hare Soup, in 2004: she died of liver cancer shortly before it appeared. R.F. There is no another book of modern English poetry that I pick up with the same unmixed anticipation of pleasure as R.F. Arthur Johnston Recommended by Aingeal Clare The languages of Scottish poetry are many: Gaelic, Scots, Norse, Welsh, and Latin among them. Madge HerronRecommended by Elaine Feeney Madge Herron has been described by Kevin O’ Connor as an, "eccentric but very gifted poet of the streets." Conor Carville Recommended by Mathew Sperling Conor Carville’s poems ought to be widely read. John Riley Recommended by Ian Duhig
of Halloween - Halloween When Is Halloween 2023? Halloween is celebrated each year on October 31. Halloween 2023 will take place on Tuesday, October 31. Ancient Origins of Halloween Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Haunted History of Halloween In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter. Did you know? All Saints' Day
The Shearers' Cooks: How Dick and Cheryl Duggan keep a team of sheep shearers well fed Updated Five days a week for most of the year, sometimes toiling in primitive kitchens, often in remote districts of Australia's sheep belt, far from towns and supermarkets, Dick and Cheryl Duggan prepare up to 100 meals a day. The Duggans are shearers' cooks. They live, nominally, in central Victoria, but spend much of their lives on the road and in shearers' quarters close to the station cookhouse. Few jobs are as physically demanding as shearing sheep. "It astounds me still even sometimes because you get people that you just can't fill up," says Cheryl, who has seen a great deal in 46 years of catering for shearing teams. Husband Dick has spent 67 years in the shearing industry, starting as a shearer at just 14. "I told them I was 18 of course. He was a gun, who won 108 shearing championships, earning him the name "King". Currently the couple are in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales. And don't forget the station staff, who keep the supply of sheep up to the shearers.
What caused the French Revolution? - Tom Mullaney We view these events at a distance of more than two hundred years. But one contemporary observer was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and future US president. Jefferson served as the US minister to France in the 1780s. Read what Jefferson thought about King Louis XVI. How does it compare what you learned about King Louis in the video? The Third Estate’s decision to break from the Estates-General was an enormously significant event on the path to revolution. The revolution culminated with the rise of Napoleon. The French Revolution continues to be a powerful moment in human history. Lastly, Nick Hanauer argues we are living in a time where “the pitchforks are coming.”
Structure/Rhyme - Suicide in the Trenches The poem has three stanzas and 4 lines per stanza. Each stanza is divided into two rhyming couplets. Altogether, the poem is reminiscent of a nursery rhyme. Furthermore, a sense of irony is created due to the dark subject matter of suicide and the poem structure of a nursery rhyme. The frequent use of the caesura highlights the angry and harsh tone throughout the poem. Lastly, the poem begins with spring, with reference to the lark.