new year poem – Teach Living Poets

Amanda Gorman: Lesson for teaching “New Day’s Lyric”
January 6, 2022October 13, 2025

Use this handout with the text of the poem to give to your students for this lesson. And, can we all just take a minute to appreciate that Amanda Gorman herself gave this lesson her stamp of approval?! And everything you need is in this Google Slides presentation! Here’s a sneak preview of some of the Slides: Here’s what I…

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Burning the Old Year with Naomi Shihab Nye
January 14, 2020October 13, 2025

Today’s post is by guest author Jessica Salfia. Jessica is the Co-Director of WVCTE and a teacher, writer, and activist. Her writing has appeared in the Charleston-Gazette Mail, West Virginia Living Magazine’s Blog, the WVCTE Best Practices Blog, and multiple volumes of the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. She was the winner of 2016 and 2019 West Virginia Fiction Competition and…

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