Twenty-One Poems for AP Literature and Composition Click here for the related feature, "Fiction and Non-Fiction for AP English Literature and Composition." The selections within this listing represent frequently taught poets and poems in AP English Literature and Composition. For each of the twenty-one poems or poetic forms for AP Literature and Composition, students and teachers will find a link to the poem and multimedia resources. EDSITEment also offers a Literary Glossary of terms cross-referenced with EDSITEment lessons. 1. The Poem About this Poem from the Poetry Foundation Arnold’s “Dover Beach”: A Commentary from Victorian Web “Dover Beach” audio clip from the American Academy of Poets Dover Beach from Representative Poetry Online 2. The Poem Elizabeth Bishop from Voices and Visions On “In the Waiting Room” from Modern American Poetry 3. The Poem The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" On “We Real Cool” from Modern American Poetry 4. The Poem About this Poem from the Poetry Foundation 5. The Poem 6.
Waterlife Learning English with adventure games by Tomasz P. Szynalski © Tomasz P. Szynalski, Antimoon.com Grim Fandango — possibly the greatest adventure game of all time. What is an adventure game? An adventure game is a kind of computer game which is similar to a movie. Why adventure games are good for your English Your main goal as an English learner should be to see and hear lots of English sentences (get lots of input). In most adventure games, you can hear what the characters are saying and read it at the same time. Playing adventure games gives you benefits similar to watching movies with subtitles: You program your brain with good English. How to use adventure games When you’re playing an adventure game, you learn some English even if you don’t want to. One useful technique when playing an adventure game is very simple: use a dictionary. If you are really motivated to learn English, you can write down all the new words. Recommended games Which adventure game should you play? So what should you do? Max from Sam & Max: Season One
Can Poetry Matter? - 91.05 The proliferation of new poetry and poetry programs is astounding by any historical measure. Just under a thousand new collections of verse are published each year, in addition to a myriad of new poems printed in magazines both small and large. No one knows how many poetry readings take place each year, but surely the total must run into the tens of thousands. And there are now about 200 graduate creative-writing programs in the United States, and more than a thousand undergraduate ones. But the poetry boom has been a distressingly confined phenomenon. The situation has become a paradox, a Zen riddle of cultural sociology. Its Own World TO the average reader, the proposition that poetry's audience has declined may seem self-evident. Daily newspapers no longer review poetry. One can see a microcosm of poetry's current position by studying its coverage in The New York Times. Poetry reviewing is no better anywhere else, and generally it is much worse. How Poetry Diminished my wish . . . 1.
Rhyme and reason: how do we describe different types of rhymes? | OxfordWords blog English has a rich vocabulary for rhyme, but names are unstable: in what follows, therefore, alternative names are sometimes provided in parenthesis. Fortunately, however, there is more variation in labelling than understanding, for the basic definition of rhyme as involving two elements (the last stressed vowel + all following letters) creates an obvious structure of degree. In full (or perfect) rhyme both elements are correctly matched (as in ‘hand/band’), and this can be intensified into rime riche (which as a French term always keeps its italics) by extending the rhyming sequences backwards from the last stressed vowels (‘right hánd/fright ánd’). The obvious next step is half- (or imperfect, near, slant) rhyme, with only one element correctly matching, which divides into vowel rhyme, with the same last stressed vowel but different following letters (‘hand/hang’), and pararhyme, with the same letters following different vowels (‘hand/bind’). A second common analysis is by type.
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Ghost Stories - [English website of the Académie de Toulouse] Cette séquence a été réalisée en 3 jours (9h). Tâche finale La tâche finale consiste à écrire puis présenter à l’oral une ghost story en : • présentant le décor, les personnages, la situation initiale, l’élément surnaturel ; • en lisant un passage ; • racontant la fin de l’histoire. Séquence La séquence introduit le genre en en montrant un exemple, qui sera compris puis analysé afin d’être reproduit. La deuxième activité propose de s’entraîner en utilisant les éléments du genre à partir d’une situation initiale préétablie. Lors de la tâche finale, les élèves réutilisent les éléments travaillés pour produire à l’écrit, puis présenter à l’oral, une histoire entièrement personnelle, en pairwork. Les productions écrites des élèves ont été publiées sur le site du lycée :
Read poetry if you write poetry - Poewar The more you read, the more you learn. The more you write, the more you develop. The crux of this advice is simple, but far too few potentially good poets follow it. Poetry is a vast art form. In my opinion, it is a far more varied form than painting. Many different types of writing can come under the heading of poetry, from highly structured forms to free-flowing uncontrolled verse. In order to comprehend the art of poetry, a person needs to study it. Don’t forget to keep writing, though. Here is a short list of poets, both classic and contemporary to get you started on the path or reading: William Carlos Williams Tony Hoagland Sherman Alexie Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jon Anderson Percy Bysshe Shelley Pablo Neruda Nicanor Parra Kenneth Koch Denise Levertov Charles Bukowski Carolyn Kizer Allen Ginsberg Ai
Revising unseen poetry » Slow Teaching 03 Mar 2017 “Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness” Desmond Tutu. This gentleman beautifully encapsulates Year 11’s approach to unseen poetry at this stage of the term: utterly lacking in direction and blindly searching for something, anything to hold on to. I fully empathise with them: how often can we immediately grasp the nuances of poetry on a first reading, let alone make comparisons with another unseen poem straight afterwards? Particularly given in their WJEC Eduqas examination, it will be the last hour of a two hour and thirty minute exam! This week I decided to use two poems to build up a repertoire of skills with Year 11: Brian Bilson’s excellent ‘Refugee’ compared with Langston Hughes’ ‘I Too’. Half term’s trip to New York provided the fuel to begin to explore ‘Refugee’. Word challenge: can you use me today? Use me to start sentences if you are unsure: In my view the poem argues that… Biston conveys… The poem is about… In my view, W.H Davies: ‘Leisure’
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ripper index Part 2. Vocabulary Multi-choice quiz Part 3. The Suspects QCM: Who dunnit ? Part 4 'From Hell' Trailer Write poetry as often as you can - Poewar There are many excuses not to write. Try using writing as an excuse not to do other things. This is a problem faced by all sorts of writers, poets included. There are many people in this world who think that they can be a poet or a writer. The reason they can’t do it is simple; they don’t do it. Doing something (anything) every day can be a challenge, even when the task is fun and easy. The challenge involved with doing something every day increases when that something is difficult and not necessarily enjoyable. If you want to be a serious writer or poet, you have to stick those days out. That isn’t to say that you have to spend your whole life writing poetry to be good at it or to enjoy it. If you just want to write poetry for fun, then schedule a time each week to do it. If you want to develop into a great poet, writing once a week is not enough time.
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