Digital Library Bulletin Board -- Poetry Gr 7-12

Description

See all my Digital Bulletin Boards for Grades 7-12.

Needed to open and edit: Google™ Slides OR PowerPoint; ability to open PDF documents

Recommended for Grades: 7-12

What’s Included:

• 65 PPT slides + Google™ Slides link (all text is editable)
• Recommended Reads (1 page, editable in PDF and PPT; hand out to teachers, students, and parents)
• Basic Google Classroom directions
• How to set PPT slide timings directions

About the Digital Bulletin Board:

• All text is editable in PPT and Google™ Drive. Images have been flattened to protect the copyright.
• Scroll the presentation using automatic timings (instructions included).
• This presentation can be used as a communication device, a library booktalk, and/or library lesson.
• All slides are in 11″ X 8.5″ letter-size (landscape), which allows for easy printing, if desired.

65 PPT + Google™ Slides include:

• Facts and information about:

  • National Poetry Month
  • poetry slam
  • origins of Mother Goose
  • epic poetry
  • free verse
  • presidential inauguration poetry
  • the longest poem in the world
  • the oldest poem in the world
  • an unusual book binding
  • price of rare books versus rare coins
  • the 800 section of the library

• Includes all or part of the following poems:

  • “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
  • “Fog” by Carl Sandburg
  • “First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Grass” by Emily Dickinson
  • “Hope is the Thing With Feathers” by Emily Dickinson
  • “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot

• Mentions all of the following epic poems (no excerpts):

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Odyssey
  • The Epic of Manas
  • Mahabharata
  • The Canterbury Tales

• Poets mentioned:

  • Robert Frost
  • Maya Angelou
  • Miller Williams
  • Elizabeth Alexander
  • Richard Blanco
  • Amanda Gorman
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Carl Sandberg
  • John Milton
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • William Shakespeare

• Also:

  • 14 book recommendations for Grades 7-12 (14 slides)–all titles are free verse fiction, nonfiction, or collected poetry
  • Words of the Week: free verse and prose
  • Would You Rathers
  • Did you knows
  • Trivia questions and answers
  • Daily and weekly schedule
  • Weekly Birthdays