USING THE INTERNET IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM

Creating a Poetry Anthology



  • This task requires students to create an anthology of poetry containing a minimum of ten poems. The anthology is to be based on a theme.
    For example
      humour
      animals
      epic
      eulogy
      love
      Australian
      author
      women
      contemporary
      every day life
      haiku
      limmerick
      sonnet
  • Students then illustrate the anthology and create a title page.
  • Select one of the poems and write a short article commenting on;
      reasons for choosing the particular poem
      discussion of the central theme of the poem
      How effect the poem is
  • Students then write a poem of their own on the same theme.

    Extension Activity

    Students can add their poem to the World Wide Web using a site which accepts student work.
    For example;
    Kid Pub WWW Publishing
    http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/

    Resources

    Larrikan's Lair
    http://nccl701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/lit/
    This site contains Australian poetry and the poem of the month.

    Poets'Corner - Home
    http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/poem.html
    Over 2,000 poems are featured here. Poems can be serached by the alphabetical listing and by using keywords.

    Poets' Corner
    http://www.ucalagary.ca/~dkbrown

    Yahoo-Poetry
    http://www.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/poetry
    Alphabetical listing of poets.

    Poetry corner (Australia)
    http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/poetry/
    Collection of poems from schools around the world.

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