Note: This bracket is from last year. For those who already used this bracket, I will be posting a whole new bracket with new poems in early March 2024! I love using students’ interests in one thing (March Madness) to get them excited about another thing (poetry). Lessons like Poetry and Basketball inspired by Ja Morant and the NBA All-Stars…
Anytime I can find ways to combine poetry and basketball, I jump on it. Today’s lesson uses a poem by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola read at a ceremony honoring the late Bill Russell at the Celtics opening of the 2022-23 season against the 76ers. Skills of focus for the lesson: Sample slides: This lesson is appropriate for middle and…
This poetry analysis lesson is great for students to practice their research, close-reading, and annotation skills, AND it gets them hyped up March Madness poetry brackets, if that’s a thing you do (more on those below). The focus of today’s lesson is a poem by Boris “Bluz” Rogers, and I’m so excited to share it with you because he’s a…