By the time Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem in the late 1980s, free verse had become pretty standard for poets writing in English. In other words, the speaker isn't necessarily making an important argument by using free verse. Instead he or she is simply reflecting the poetic standards of...
Play All Automatically move to the next video in the Classroom when playback concludes 1 The Relevance of Poetry 2 Approaching Poetry 3 Functions of Poetry 4 Forms of Poetry 5 Poetic Devices 6 The Music of Poetry 7 Geoffrey Chaucer 8 The Prologue 9 Elizabethan Poetry 10 Sir ...
Obviously, the play is not American, and historically, Shakespeare took liberties with the assassination of Caesar in this 400+-year-old play. But the different rhetorical devices Shakespeare used in these funeral speeches allow the English teachers a means to highlight how well the charactersdemons...
Categories :High school english lesson plans grades 9 12 Tags :High school lesson plans & tips Page content Mastering The Technique Make it Fun Poetry Analysis This post is part of the series: Teaching Poetry Mastering The Technique I thought I knew how to analyze a poem, but it wa...
Above is the prompt I used when I taught Advanced Placement English Literature (APLit) for all kinds of literature. This was before the Common Core’s “close reading” dictums; APLit students read and looked for author style and purpose because that was the focus of the course. ...
Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. (21) , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others (22) to th...
December 19, 2021 at 12:20 pm I’m trying to remember the name of the English (?, well, British) comedy actor of the 1950s who’sschtickwas very rapid speech with pseudo-random swapping of words and syllables. I think it was sometimes described as...
The Monster at the End of this Bookby Jon Stone; illustrated by Mark SmollinandThere’s a Nightmare in My Closetby Mercer Mayer.Both of these books have been incorporated into our Heroes and Monsters English IV (grade 12) elective. I use them as a starting point for an inquiry project ...
Happy Birthday, John Milton! (Poetic Genius and Christmas Curmudgeon) December 9, 2013—Leave a comment No sooner are essays on Mary Shelley’sFrankensteinhanded in, then the copies ofParadise Lostare handed out to the Advanced Placement English Literature Students. Yes, there are over 10,000 ...
Today marks the 200th birthday of American writer (poet, essayist, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist)Henry David Thoreau.I remember my first encounters with Thoreau were traditional, his essays read in my high school English class. Soon after, my choice of for a quote under my yearbook pho...