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Grade Range: 6 - 11
This online edition of Alfred Noyes’ poem introduces both the text and the poetic devices and vocabulary in this famous poem. The unit can serve as an independent study tool or a review for those who need a refresher on poetic devices.
In the Classroom
Share the start of the poem on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Then turn students or partners loose to explore the poem and discover the details on laptops or at home. Transform classroom technology use and extend the unit by challenging groups or individual students to create their own visual interpretations of a stanza using a tool such as Poster My Wall, <a href="/single.cfm?id=13069">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Suggest that your teen read and experience this famous poem in his/her own to reinforce understanding of poetic devices and literary terms.