We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are…
Students read Dana Levin’s poem, ‘Instructions for Stopping,’ and then crafted their instruction-based poems! Lesson Note: Instruction poems offer a unique…
Students wrote “Abecedarian” poems that use the entire alphabet as the lefthand spine of the poem. Lesson Note: “My essential…
‘I celebrate and sing myself…’-Walt Whitman Students explored names through a series of prompts, which began with a reading of…
Students read Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem ‘Truth Serum’ and then talked about wishes, wants, and dreams that might come true…
Our class began with a discussion of food and memory in preparation for studying Gary Soto’s Narrative-Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia…
Our class began with a discussion of food and memory in preparation for studying Gary Soto’s Narrative-Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia…
Students wrote and talked about kindness before reading the poem, ‘Small Kindnesses’ by Denusha Lameris. In crafting their own poems…
Students crafted visual and then poetic Exquisite Corpses! Afterward, they were challenged to create a clay figure of one of…
A common household object became the focus of this lesson while studying Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps The World Ends Here. The…
Students wrote epistolary poems in the form of letters, fashioned after basketball player Kobe Bryant’s poem, “Dear Basketball.” Lesson Note:…