Author: #TeachLivingPoets
Poetry Analysis Using Color
In Honor of Women: Hip Hop Verse, Poetry, & Performance
Poetry Literature Circles
Tribute Poem: “SESTINA” by Porsha Olayiwola
3 Poems by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Teaching Unit for Lauren K. Alleyne’s Honeyfish
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.
Color poem: pop-up poetry to get students thinking like a poet
Teaching Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
This lesson was created by Jessica Salfia and Karla Hilliard from Spring Mills High School, Martinsburg West Virginia.
Teaching “White Lies” by Tara Betts
This lesson was created by Brian Hannon, who is the Director of Education at LMSvoice, and teaches at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia.
Poetry mini-lesson hyperdocs galore
This post is by guest author Kristin Runyon, who shares her passion for literature and poetry in the Charleston High School Library as the librarian for her remaining few years before retirement.
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