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Poetry Packet — 5 Poems (Middle School Poetry Packet: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade Level)

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This Poetry Packet includes 5 Poems your students will read and analyze. The poems included are suggested for a Middle School Poetry Unit: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade ELA.

This packet is a wonderful tool because you can have students complete the analyses of the poems in a variety of ways: whole-class, independently and/or collaboratively.

The poems included in this packet are:

  • “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
  • “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
  • “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • “We Never Know How High We Are” by Emily Dickinson
  • “The Gardener” by Robert Louis Stevenson

In this packet, students will work on poetry skills such as: rhyme scheme, rhyme, allusion, imagery, assonance, consonance, alliteration, hyperbole, theme, tone, mood, author’s purpose, personification, and connotation.

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