Poetry Digital Bulletin Board – National Poetry Month

Description

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS POETRY DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD

• Recommended for: Grades 7+; works for secondary library or classroom
• Number of student-view slides: 48
• Slideshow duration: If timed at 45 seconds per slide, it takes about 36 minutes to scroll one rotation. If you add the 17 additional booktalk slides (linked in resource), this will add an additional 13 minutes to the scrolling slideshow, for a total of about 49 minutes for one full scroll rotation.
• Formats: PPT or Google Slides, PDF
• Editable: YES, all text is editable

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• 48 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
• Link to additional booktalk slides that you can copy/paste into your slideshow. The booktalk slideshow includes 25 booktalks for Grades 7-12.

ABOUT THIS POETRY DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD:

• All text is editable in PPT and Google™ Drive. Images have been flattened to protect the copyright.
• Scroll the presentation in the secondary library using automatic timings.

48 PPT + GOOGLE™ SLIDES INCLUDE:

• National Poetry Month (April)
• poetry slam
• origins of Mother Goose
• epic poetry
• 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
• Words of the Week: prose and free verse
• Would You Rathers
• This or Thats
• Did you knows and trivia
• Daily and weekly schedule
• Weekly Birthdays

INCLUDES ALL OR PARTS 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 THE FOLLOWING CLASSIC 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

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