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About Gale In Context: Middle School

Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.

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About Gale In Context: Middle School Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more. Don't know how to login? Depending on this location's preferences, the log-in process could include your library card number, a student or user ID, or another provided password.

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1. Use specific topics rather than broad themes. For example, if you were searching for articles to connect to The Outsiders, you might search for "juvenile deliquency" or "teen gang violence."
2. Try different search terms if you aren't finding much.  For instance, you could use the word "adolescence" instead of "teen."
3. Once you find some results, select "magazines" or "newspapers" to find articles.
4. Skim the results.  Look especially at titles, dates, the number of words, and if available, levels (the number of dots -- 5 is the highest, and usually too hard for middle school students).
5. If there are a lot of results, filter further by Subjects, Document Type, Content Level (if available), and/or Topic Finder.

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These poems are organized around specific themes and topics. Skim the page looking for a topic that connects with your book club book, and then look at the poems.

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The following selections of poems are curated around specific themes and are appropriate for young readers.

Find poetry lesson plans, essays about teaching, a glossary of poetry terms, and other educator resources on our Materials for Teachers page. Visit our Poetry for Teens page to find more selections of poems tailored to a high school audience. Encourage students to participate in the Dear Poet project. And, celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day virtually on April 30.

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Poems for Kids - The following selections of poems are curated around specific themes and are appropriate fo

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You can search by keyword, or under the “Featured Poems” section, you can filter by Occasions, Themes, and Forms.

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Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more. You can even find poems by…

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You can use the Topics dropdown menu to find poems on different subjects, occasions, and holidays. If you select a Subject, you can narrow it even more by clicking the little arrow next to the word.

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 100-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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1. Use topic and subject headings or filters to help you narrow down your choices.
2. Look at the titles of poems.
3. Skim the poems.  Can you understand most of the vocabulary?  Do you see lines that connect to your book somehow?
3. Save the links to any that look promising!