Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. After exploring the styles of two authors, students will translate passages from one author into the style of another. Then they will translate fables into style of one of the authors.

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In this lesson, students will compare and analyze a portrait of the poet Amy Lowell and her poem, "A Fixed Idea."

In this lesson, students will examine a painting and a poem in order to better understand the theme.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast a photograph with the poem, "A Small Needful Fact."

In this lesson plan, students will explore a cover from Harper's Bazaar and the poem "America" by Richard Blanco.

In this lesson, students will compare and analyze a news article with the poem, "American Pharoah."

In this lesson, students will have paired discussion, analyze a painting by John Singer Sargent, and use these explorations to further delve in to the poem, "Arabs in Finland."

In this lesson, students will use both the painting "Sunrise on the Matterhorn" by Albert Bierstadt and the poem, "Before a Painting" in order to help them create their own tableau and explore the meaning in the poem.

In this lesson, students will explore the connections between their own experience, a song, and a poem, all detailing aspects of winter.

In this lesson, students will use a drawing by Anne Goldthwaite, Night Series: The Cat, in order to delve more deeply into the theme and meaning of the poem, "Black Cat" by Rainer Maria Rilke.

In this lesson, students will explore a film excerpt with the poem, "Business" by Naomi Shihab Nye in order to deepen their understanding of the themes.

In this lesson, students will delve into the imagery and symbolism of the ocean through both a painting and a poem, "Carrying Our Words."

In this lesson plan, students will compare a photograph with a poem, "Chance," and explore the theme of finding yourself.

In this lesson, students will work in groups to compare images of trees with the poem, "Crowes" by Marilyn Nelson.

In this lesson, students will examine a painting and a poem in order to more deeply understand the message of both.

In this lesson, students will explore a video of Mahalia Jackson singing as well as analyze the prose poem, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely [Mahalia Jackson is a genius.]" by Claudia Rankine.

In this lesson based on Arlo Guthrie's version of "Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) and the poem, "Everyday We Get More Illegal" by Juan Fellipe Herrera, students will explore the similarities between the two and discuss the relevancy of these works in today's environment.

In this lesson from the Academy of American Poets, students will examine the Vietnam War through two photographs and the perspective of the speaker in the poem, "Facing It."

In this lesson, students will explore a Smithsonian article, "Hobbits' on Flores, Indonesia" and compare it with the poem, "Flores Woman" by Tracy K. Smith.