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Activity 1
Click this link for a good discussion entitled “How to Read a Poem” from Poets.org.
Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution
Activity 2
Public Domain CC0
Click this link to access “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” on the Poets.org website. Click the audio icon, and you will hear a very memorable and dramatic recitation of the poem by the author himself.
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is characterized as a lyric poem .
Click this link to read more about William Butler Yeats on the BMCC database Biography in Context.
OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
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Activity 3
Click this link for “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost.
Public Domain
Activity 4
Click this link to access the poem “My Last Duchess”
on on the Commonlit website. This is written as a monologue and is an example of a dramatic poem.
Or click this link.
Activity 5
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
Public domain
Activity 6
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
Activity 7
Please read “We Real Cool” and “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 8
Essay 3 First Draft due: Sunday, March 24.
For this assignment, you can either write an essay (Choice A) or create a graphic flyer (Choice B) about a poem.
Choice A
Click here for essay directions.
Click here to see how to cite correctly in a poetry essay.
All essays in this class must adhere to MLA format. Before submitting any written work, please review the guides to formatting. Only correctly formatted essays will be eligible for a grade of A. Please review the guides below.
Guide to MLA essay formatting from the BMCC library.
Guide to MLA citation from the BMCC library.
Click here for Citation Machine MLA citation generator.
To submit your essay, return to your Blackboard course and Essay Submission Links folder on the black navigation panel. Within the folder, click the subfolder labeled “Essay 3.”
Click here for essay grading rubric.
Choice B
Click here for Poetry Flyer directions.
Click here to see a Sample Poetry Flyer.
Poems must come from either The Poetry Foundation or The American Academy of Poets
In case you want to use Canva to create your flyer, here is the link.
Click here for information about copyright licenses and Creative Commons.
Activity 9
Quiz 5
This Quiz will check your understanding of poetry and the works we have read. It will be available from 9:00 a.m. Monday, March 4 to Sunday, March 17, 11:59 p.m. Once the test closes, it will not be available or visible to students. Note that this quiz is open for two weeks.
To access the quiz, please navigate to your Blackboard course. On the black navigation panel, click “Links to Quizzes.” Then click the link to Quiz 5.
Activity 10
Public Domain
Click here to access the Week 6 Discussion Board.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Work.
