ENG3U Unit 4: Poetry Across the Ages

Students read Shakespeare, the Romantics, the Brownings, Hopkins, Whitman, Dickinson, Dunbar, E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), McKay, Hughes, McCrae, Owen, Frost and Eliot, paired with contemporary poems chosen by the teacher, including at least one First Nations, Métis or Inuit poet.

Assessment of learning: a poetry anthology with a comparative analysis, an original poem, a creator's statement and a recorded reading, with a rubric.

Lessons

1. The Poetry Timeline
2. Sonnet Surgery
3. The Romantics
4. Victorian Voices
5. American Voices
6. Masks and Rivers
7. War Poetry, Then and Now
8. Making It New
9. Indigenous Voices
10. Sound and Soundscape
11. Anthology Workshop
12. Poetry Café

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• An 18-page Poetry Reader with all 27 poems and a glossary
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics