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Tone Bottles: explore tone in poetry with this engaging hands-on activity for all grade levels!
Instilling a love for poetry with middle school slams
#TeachLivingPoets virtual library
Student Podcasts Using The Slowdown as a Mentor Text
Building a Classroom Community Through Narrative Poetry
Get Moving with Teach Living Poets Stations
Poetry Fridays: Making Poetry Part of Your Classroom Weekly Routine
The Envelope Game – easy activity to use with any text tomorrow!
How a poem moves – a workshop with Terrance Hayes
Poems to celebrate Black History Month
Poetry Hexagons: get your students engaged with this hands-on hexagon activity!
#TeachLivingPoets Gallery Walk
“If They Should Come For Us” by Fatimah Asghar – chat archive and lesson
Finding the Perfect Match: Poetry Blind Dating
José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal – Teach Living Poets and #THEBOOKCHAT archive
Teach Living Poets Resources – where to find poets and poems
Teaching a poetry collection with Clint Smith’s Counting Descent
Poetry prompts – writing from mentor text poems
A #TeachLivingPoets unit
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 ideas brought up by various educators all around the country who participated in the chat, and this post is going to sort them all out into an organized poetry unit you could teach in your classroom. Continue reading