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Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on discovering new poets and reading contemporary poetry, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community.

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Poetry as Service Learning

May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / Leave a comment

My seniors visited our district’s elementary school to teach a poetry workshop and it was awesome! Our school’s motto is “Learn, Lead, and Serve,” and I can’t think of a better opportunity for our students to live our motto and serve as role models in our school community.

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#TeachLivingPoets Favorites for National Poetry Month

April 17, 2022April 19, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / 1 Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, I want to share some of my favorite #TeachLivingPoets lessons, prompts, resources, and poems. And, as I always say, I encourage you to find your own favorites — who jives the best with your community of students and with you as an educator and reader.

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Poetry and Basketball

February 22, 2022April 5, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / Leave a comment
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Reading visual texts with “The Call,” the Super Bowl halftime show trailer

January 22, 2022February 16, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / 3 Comments
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Amanda Gorman: Lesson for teaching “New Day’s Lyric”

January 6, 2022February 10, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / 2 Comments

I’m a couple days late on this, but I wanted to create something new. Something fun and creative that I haven’t tried yet with poetry in my classroom because I think this poem deserves it. A new, creative activity for a New Year’s poem.

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Paired Texts: Rudy Francisco and Lord Byron

December 13, 2021April 17, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / Leave a comment

This post is written by Dana Huff and originally appeared on her website, huffenglish.com. Learn more about Dana here.

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Threading Poems – tying it all together

November 24, 2021December 13, 2021 / #TeachLivingPoets / Leave a comment

Today’s post is by guest author Valerie A. Person. A veteran teacher 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.

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Color poem: pop-up poetry to get students thinking like a poet

September 27, 2021March 21, 2022 / #TeachLivingPoets / 2 Comments
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Teaching Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

August 5, 2021 / #TeachLivingPoets / 2 Comments

This lesson was created by Jessica Salfia and Karla Hilliard from Spring Mills High School, Martinsburg West Virginia.

Crystal Wilkinson, author of Perfect Black
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Teaching “White Lies” by Tara Betts

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 / #TeachLivingPoets / Leave a comment

This lesson was created by Brian Hannon, who is the Director of Education at LMSvoice, and teaches at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia.

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