Poetry



A professor raps the Canterbury Tales. Make Chaucer cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M61_L5PT-9A&feature=related

A fierce rap battle translated into "honkey"—interesting to play with poetry, culture, and genre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H0i1RAdHk

If your students are trying to think of similes, this sites gives fill in the blanks. For example, have your students fill in the blanks: Poor as a _. Strong as a _. White as a ___.

http://www.poetryteachers.com/poetclass/lessons/teachsimiles.html

[] http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm

Slideshare: an interactive slide creating site. A great way to share and write poetry with visuals. http://www.slideshare.net/monk51295/be-you-book-draft

Ozomatli: a blend of music and poetry on social injustice [].

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Poem-a-Day: []

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Tons of good resources: http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/poetry.htm

Fun ways to teach Haiku via games: http://www.educational-freeware.com/news/haiku-poems.aspx

This may be potentially harmful to students, but it could be a humorous segway into poetry, and a way to help them break through the mystification of poetry, or get them asking themselves what makes good poetry. It's a adolescent poem generator. Every time you refresh the link, a new poem is generated by a computer. http://www.elsewhere.org/hbzpoetry/