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  • Tone Bottles: explore tone in poetry with this engaging hands-on activity for all grade levels!

    Tone Bottles: explore tone in poetry with this engaging hands-on activity for all grade levels!

    May 31, 2019October 27, 2025

    Today’s post is by guest author Valerie A. Person. In her 25th year at Currituck County High School, Valerie teaches honors and academic English II as well as AP Literature and Composition.  She agrees passionately with Virginia Woolf’s “teaching without zest is a crime,” striving to find engaging and meaningful ways for her students to learn. One of the tenets…

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    A #TeachLivingPoets unit

    August 31, 2018October 24, 2025

    Earlier this week, the third installment of the #TeachLivingPoets Twitter chat dropped. The August 28th chat was hosted by Susan Barber, who teaches in Atlanta public schools. Clint Smith’s poem “There Is a Lake Here,” which is the last poem in his collection Counting Descent (Write Bloody, 2016), was our focus as the common text for the chat.  There were so many innovative…

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