Teach the poem that has it all...
02/01/12 20:23 Filed in: Literature | Rime of the Ancient Mariner Lesson Plan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner of by Samuel Coleridge is a poem that has it all: great joy and sorrow, guilt and sin and redemption, and the supernatural. The strong bond with nature is broken when the mariner kills the albatross:
“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.”
That was the start of the mariner’s dark journey. After escaping death and horror, he is destined to go from land to land telling his tale...
The strong imaginative themes make this great work a real winner with high school students. The key is immersing your grade 9 or 10 students in the sounds, the art, the dark feel of the poem.
There are lots of excellent classroom resources to make this piece of literature come alive:
For the most all-in-one complete unit ever made:
Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner-Complete-Resource
Preview Part One here: Part 1
The full resource has a teaching guide and workbook-style lessons for the 7 parts of the poem.
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“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.”
That was the start of the mariner’s dark journey. After escaping death and horror, he is destined to go from land to land telling his tale...
The strong imaginative themes make this great work a real winner with high school students. The key is immersing your grade 9 or 10 students in the sounds, the art, the dark feel of the poem.
There are lots of excellent classroom resources to make this piece of literature come alive:
For the most all-in-one complete unit ever made:
Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner-Complete-Resource
Preview Part One here: Part 1
The full resource has a teaching guide and workbook-style lessons for the 7 parts of the poem.
Read More...
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Literature Book Reports
26/05/11 20:14 Filed in: Literature | Resources
Have students write book reports in many different ways. Web English Teacher has the best listing of links containing a wonderful range of ideas to represent understanding of literature.
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Graphics to Teach Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an amazing poem to teach. The story has elements of magic, mystery, and horror. It was also written during a period when 
Coleridge was addicted to opium. There are some great resources to make this classic poem come alive, especially if you have a multimedia projector or a smart boardboard. Google images is a rich storehouse of pictures illustrating Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This particular teacher author has brought all the graphics together with quotes from the poem. The pictures are of high quality and are inexpensive. Here are some links to this product:
Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner-Dore-Print-classroom-package-part-one
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Download a free sample here: DoreGraphics-a-preview
The Kraken
01/05/11 11:33 Filed in: Literature
The Kraken is a mythical creature that once inspired great fear amongst the early seamen and explorers. The Kraken symbolized all that was unknown in the great oceans of the world.
Listen to this podcast of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem: The Kraken
Listen to this podcast of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem: The Kraken
Podcast
For the full teaching resource about the Kraken find here:
Discover the Real Kraken
Free Plays for Reader's Theatre
20/03/11 17:17 Filed in: Literature
A children’s author, Aaron Shepherd, has made available a large number of plays suitable for classroom use
What is remarkable is the large number of free stories and scripts. The scripts are suitable for Reader’s Theatre. Here is the direct link to great resources he offers for students and teachers:
*Reader's Theater, Readers Theatre* AARON SHEPARD'S RT PAGE *Readers Theater, Reader's Theatre, Free Scripts, Short Children's Plays*
Aaron reads his story: King O’ the Cats in a free author-podcast reading!
http://www.aaronshep.com/videos/KingCats.mp4
Aaron is very generous in making all these resources available. Read More...
What is remarkable is the large number of free stories and scripts. The scripts are suitable for Reader’s Theatre. Here is the direct link to great resources he offers for students and teachers:
*Reader's Theater, Readers Theatre* AARON SHEPARD'S RT PAGE *Readers Theater, Reader's Theatre, Free Scripts, Short Children's Plays*
Aaron reads his story: King O’ the Cats in a free author-podcast reading!
http://www.aaronshep.com/videos/KingCats.mp4
Aaron is very generous in making all these resources available. Read More...