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  • Poetry and Basketball

    Poetry and Basketball

    February 22, 2022October 13, 2025

    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…

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  • Teaching Rita Dove – 3 poems for all levels (upper elementary to high school)

    Teaching Rita Dove – 3 poems for all levels (upper elementary to high school)

    February 24, 2021October 24, 2025

    Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, and as poet laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Her books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004 (W.W. Norton, 2016), recipient of the 2017 NAACP Image Award, the 2017 Library of Virginia Award and a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award; Sonata Mulattica (W. W. Norton, 2009), winner of…

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