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Tag: Poetry

The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part Two – Linguistic Exploration

The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part Two – Linguistic Exploration

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 by Jocelyn Chadwick

The third selection of teaching exemplars for Mark Twain’s poetry.

Posted in Twain for TeachersTagged Mark Twain, Olivia Clemens, Poetry, Robert Richardson, Those Annual Bills, War PrayerLeave a Comment on The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part Two – Linguistic Exploration
The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part One

The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part One

Posted on February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 by Jocelyn Chadwick

The first in a series of scaffolding exemplars for teachers.

Posted in Twain for TeachersTagged "The Aged Pilot Man", "To Jennie", English, Jocelyn Chadwick, Journey Motif, Language Arts, Mark Twain, PoetryLeave a Comment on The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part One
“And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry

“And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry

Posted on September 7, 2021September 8, 2021 by Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold

Building on work from the Summer Teachers Institute, Jocelyn Chadwick and Matt Seybold discuss using Mark Twain’s comedic verse to prepare students for Robert Frost’s much-anthologized “The Road Not Taken.”

Posted in Twain for TeachersTagged Genius, Mark Twain, Poetry, Robert Frost, Teaching, The Road Not Taken, Thomas Moore, Those Annual Bills, Those Evening Bells1 Comment on “And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry
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