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Salmon Falls was composed by John Hoben, an up-and-coming young Canadian poet from Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland. The poem recently won a 2005 Arts and Letters Award (Senior Division Poetry) from the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador.

Salmon Falls is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.

John is also an accomplished teacher and post-graduate student at Memorial University. He has prepared the following lesson plan to “help students gain a broader conception of poetry, cultivate a more favourable affective disposition to poetry, and gain an intuitive understanding of some of the main structural elements of a poem such as rhythm, rhyme, meter, symbol, etc.”

Poetry Appreciation and Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven.

Additionally, John offers a two-part lesson plan which teaches “timeless humanistic themes expressed through a culturally responsive drama”.

Greek Myths, Oedipus, Antigone … and Star Wars.

Jumping Salmon image above by Margot Hessing-Lewis

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