Traditional Poetry from the Fifteenth to the early Twentieth Century Grades 7-10

<p>Share the poetry written by many of the important poets of the English language from the Fifteenth to the early Twentieth Century with your students.</p><p>This resource presents a background to each of the major periods of writing a biography of the particular poet a portrait of the poet a representative poem activities and suggestions for further reading. Activities can be completed independently or in small groups.</p><p>Teach this entire unit in 10 to 12 classes or choose excerpts from it to supplement your own unit.</p><ul><li>20+ Ballads & Poems</li><li>10+ Portraits of Poets & Biographies</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Poets & their works include:</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>The Minstrels of the Middle Ages: The Ballad</p><ul><li>The Daemon Lover Sir Patrick Spens</li><li>The Two Corbies /The Two Crows Get Upand Bar the Door</li></ul><p>Nursery Rhymes</p><p>William Shakespeare</p><ul><li>Sonnet XVIII</li><li>The Witches from Macbeth</li></ul><p>John Keats</p><ul><li>La Belle Dame Sans Merci</li></ul><p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</p><ul><li>The Village Blacksmith</li><li>Hiawatha's Childhood</li></ul><p>Alfred Lord Tennyson</p><ul><li>The Charge of the Light Brigade</li></ul><p>Sir Walter Scott</p><ul><li>Lochinvar</li></ul><p>Edward Lear</p><ul><li>The Owl and the Pussycat</li></ul><p>Walt Whitman</p><ul><li>A Noiseless Patient Spider</li></ul><p>William Blake</p><ul><li>The Lamb</li><li>The Tiger</li></ul><p>Duncan Campbell Scott</p><ul><li>The Forsaken</li></ul><p>William Henry Drummond</p><ul><li>Leetle Bateese</li><li>The Wreck of the Julie Plante</li></ul><p>Emily Dickinson</p><ul><li>A Narrow Fellow in the Grass</li><li>I Like to See It Lap the Miles</li><li>The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky</li></ul><p>82 pages</p>