Poetry

Practice
Overview

Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to Poetry!

Welcome to Albert's Poetry course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Poetry course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Subject Organization

Albert's Poetry course is organized within the Practice tab which includes 5 themes organized chronologically by literary time period.

Practice Tab

Our Poetry course includes 5 themes:
  • Renaissance Poetry (1300–1660)
  • 17th and 18th Century Poetry (1600–1790)
  • Romantic & Naturalist Poetry (1790–1870)
  • Modernist Poetry (1910–1945)
  • Contemporary Poetry (1945–Present)
Each theme contains several poems from that time period which are labeled by title and author.
For example, here are sample titles from Contemporary Poetry (1945-Present):
  • The Man with the Saxophone | Ai
  • Coal | Audre Lourde
  • The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman
  • The Facebook Sonnet | Sherman Alexie
  • Heroics | Julia Alvarez

Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions

Standards

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter. Albert’s Poetry questions are aligned to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. 
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Tags

Albert’s Poetry course include 2 types of tags, reading skills tags and reading content tags.  These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as “textual-evidence” or “world-literature”. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guidelevel.

Question Types

Poetry uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills. 
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Select
  • Fill-in-the-blank
  • Snippet Select

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