Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

This unit will train students in skills necessary for the critical appreciation of poetry. It will introduce literary concepts such as genre, poetic form (stanzaic form, metre, rhyme, voice), textual ...

On this unit, we shall learn and practice the craft of poetry writing by studying and endeavouring to master a range of traditional and modern poetic forms and techniques. We shall attend to such ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...