teaching poetry high school
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.
Continue readingReading visual texts with “The Call,” the Super Bowl halftime show trailer
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
I am so excited to share this COMPLETE UNIT for José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2018) created by my colleagues Tiffany Cavicchia and Melissa Scire.
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