Literature Odyssey: Poetry
Grade Level: 8th through 10th
Literature Odyssey: Poetry
Grade level: 8th - 10th
Pages: 226
Course type: Consumable textbook
Print: Looseleaf, binder-ready (binder not included). Includes a spine insert for a 1.5 inch binder.
eBook: PDF file
Author: Amelia Ostrowski
Literature Odyssey: Poetry Teacher's Guide is available separately.
Literature Odyssey: Poetry is a 16-week course targeted at 9th grade but appropriate for 8th to 10th grade. It is the second in a planned series of eight courses that will cover a typical four-year high school English sequence.
This second course continues the precedent set by Literature Odyssey: Short Stories in cultivating deep and active reading skill through purposeful annotation of poetry and utilization of textual evidence to support literary analysis. Poetry is often seen as difficult or irrelevant, but this course aims to dispel that myth.
This course examines poem structure, imagery, figurative language, allusion, rhythm and meter, sound devices, and themes. Various types of poems are discussed, weaving a historical strand through this course. These types include tanka, haiku, cinquain, ode, elegy, ballad, epic, sonnet, and free and blank verse. Sixty-one poems by 50 poets are referenced, reprinted, or used for student analysis.
Each lesson incorporates three activities: 1) Content Assignment, which is designed for focused practice of newly introduced concepts; 2) Wordplay, which gives even the most tentative students a chance to play with words; and 3) Analysis Assignment, which brings in another poet and poem for the student continue practicing the concepts introduced in the lesson.
Each of the two units ends with a project to synthesize all the content covered: Unit 1 asks students to complete a poetry scavenger hunt, and Unit 2 asks students to study and complete a project on a specific poetic movement. The course’s final project requires a written analysis of a poem, a visual component, and responses to reflection questions.
Sixty-one poems by 50 poets are referenced, reprinted, or used for student analysis. Excerpts from ancient epics such as the Kalevala, Iliad, and Odyssey are included as well as ballads (“The Ballad of John Henry”) and poems from both classic and modern poets.
. Poets include:
- Maya Angelou
- Sinan Antoon
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- e.e. cummings
- Emily Dickinson
- Amanda Gorman
- Seamus Heaney
- Langston Hughes
- John Keats
- Marianne Moore
- Ogden Nash
- Jose Olivarez
- Mary Oliver
- Li Po
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Carl Sandburg
- William Shakespeare
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
- William Wordsworth
- and many more!
What's included with Literature Odyssey: Poetry?
- Sixty-one poems with space for annotation exercises
- Poet biographies
- Learning objectives
- Suggested timeline
- Reading strategies and annotation instructions
- Poem content assignments
- Wordplay and writing challenges
- Vocabulary
- Analysis questions
- Reflection activities
- Projects
- Capstone Conversations
- Charts and worksheets
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