Poetry Alive! Assembly Show Syllabus

Many schools invite Poetry Alive! for assemblies each year or every other year. As a result, many students see us many times. We provide distinctive programs from year to year to ensure that students see different shows.

2005-2006 Syllabus

The 2005-2006 programs for grades 9-12, 6-8, 3-5, and K-2 audiences are listed below, in show order. This program is subject to change based on show time allotted or other needs that your school may have.

The poem books are available online!

Follow the links to copies of poems or author biographies on the internet. If the poem you want is not linked, you can visit the Public Domain link for that show to see if the poem is available there, or click the Bibliography link for where we've found the poem in print. We are unable to copy and distribute print versions of poems that are not in public domain.

K-2 Show : 3-5 Show : 6-8 Show : 9-12 Show

9-12th Grade Poem List

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• Constantly Risking Absurdity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot
• Pershing at the Front - Arthur Guiterman
• Harriet Tubman - Eloise Greenfield
• Women - Alice Walker
  
• Woman Work - Maya Angelou
  
• Lucinda Matlock - Edgar Lee Masters
  
• Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
  
• The Calling - Luis J. Rodriquez
  
• Chrysalis Diary - Paul Fleischman
  
• The Lawyer's Ways - Paul Laurence Dunbar
  
• Mr. Flood's Party - Edwin Arlington Robinson
  
• My Papa's Waltz - Theodore Roethke
  
• Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
  
• We - Lee Bennett Hopkins
  
• The Funeral - Gorden Parks
  
• Lochinvar - Sir Walter Scott
  
• Poem for Roman Jakobsen "Between What I See and What I Say" - Octavio Paz
  

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6-8th Grade List

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• Poem for Roman Jakobsen "Between What I See and What I Say" - Octavio Paz
• The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
• The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
• Mama is a Sunrise - Evelyn Tooley Hunt
• Elena - Pat Mora
• The Courage that my Mother Had - Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Mother to Son - Langston Hughes
• The Women's 400 Meters - Lillian Morrison
• The 1st (or Eviction) - Lucille Clifton
• At This Age, This Time of Young Age - Arnold Adoff
• Which Lunch Table- Kristine O'Connell George
• in Just– - e.e. cummings
• The Lesson of the Moth - Don Marquis
• To Satch - Samuel Allen
• Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson

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3-5th Grade Poem List

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• Nathanial's Rap - Eloise Greenfiel
• The Helpful Centipede - Allan Wolf
• The Butterfly and the Caterpillar - Joseph Lauren
• Whirligig Beetles - Paul Fleischman
• Billy Button - Anonymous
• Toboggan - Colin West
• El Coco - Anonymous
• Permutations - Mary Ann Hoberman
• The Dog - Ogden Nash
• Mother Doesn't Want a Dog - Judith Viorst
• My Dog is a Plumber - Dan Greenburg
• My Dog He is an Ugly Dog - Jack Prelutsky
• Motto for a Doghouse - Arthur Guiterman
• The Aliens Have Landed- Kenn Nesbitt
• My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
• To Be - Sara Holbrook
• Thumbprint - Eve Merriam
• I'm Nobody - Emily Dickenson
• I Am Rose - Gertrude Stein
• Chicago Poet - Carl Sandburg
• The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carrol
• Where do you get the idea for a poem? - Karla Kuskin

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K-2nd Grade Poem List

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• A Poem is a Little Path- Charles Ghigna
• Nursery Rhymes:
        Little Jack Horner - Mother Goose
        Jack Be Nimble - Mother Goose
        Little Boy Blue - Mother Goose
        Little Miss Muffett - Mother Goose
• Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
• Today I Feel Silly - Jamie Lee Curtis
• Angry - Sara Holbrook
• Puzzle - Myra Cohn Livingston
• The Time I Learned to Ride My Bike - Brod Bagert
• Five Little Monkeys - Anonymous
• Two Little Apples - Anonymous
• Jell-O Cups - Rebecca Kai Dotlich
• Crayons: A Color Poem - Jane Yolen
• What Happens to the Colors? - Jack Prelutsky
• The Bad Dream - Tony Bradman
• Good Morning - Muriel Sipe
• The End - Mary Ann Hoberman
• Keep a Poem in Your Pocket - Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

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