Author: #TeachLivingPoets
Teaching Unit for Sand Opera by Philip Metres
Teaching Finna by Nate Marshall
Poetry as Service Learning
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.
#TeachLivingPoets Favorites for National Poetry Month
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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Reading visual texts with “The Call,” the Super Bowl halftime show trailer
Amanda Gorman: Lesson for teaching “New Day’s Lyric”
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.
Paired Texts: Rudy Francisco and Lord Byron
This post is written by Dana Huff and originally appeared on her website, huffenglish.com. Learn more about Dana here.
Threading Poems – tying it all together
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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