The J. Paul Getty Museum presents a number of engaging lesson plans on poetry and art. Crafted by the Getty Foundation's Education team and by educators around the country, these lesson plans draw on digitized material from throughout the museum. On this website, readers will find a rich collection of lesson plans, activities, classroom handouts, and videos about the intersection between art and poetry. One series of lessons, Illuminated Calligrams, has upper elementary school students explore Andrea Soffici's visual poem, "Tipographia," along with the calligrams of Guillaume Apollinaire. In another lesson, high school students analyze William Blake's "A Poison Tree" alongside Blake's painting Satan Exulting Over Eve. The site also offers links to four Getty videos on YouTube related videos and printable classroom handouts for Background & Context (including a helpful vocabulary list and an accessible definition of Ekphrastic poetry).
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