Poetry Lesson Plans
Villanelle Writing Prompt
Literary Model: "A Boy & His Dog" by Blake Hoena
Lesson Plan:
villanellewritingprompt_cpotts.pdf
Literary Model: "A Boy & His Dog" by Blake Hoena
Lesson Plan:
villanellewritingprompt_cpotts.pdf
Desert Creatures, Desert Sounds
Literary Model: None
Lesson Plan: desertcreatures_raquelgutierrez.pdf
Literary Model: None
Lesson Plan:
desertcreatures_raquelgutierrez.pdf
Restrictions and the Unreliable Translator: A Multi-Modal Approach
Literary Model: Charles Bernstein’s Language Machines (adapted from Bernadette Mayer) “Translating the Untranslatable: Elfriede Jelinek in Translation” by Marginalized Margarine Queen
Lesson Plan: restrictionsandunreliabletranslator_gdozal.pdf
Literary Model: Charles Bernstein’s Language Machines (adapted from Bernadette Mayer) “Translating the Untranslatable: Elfriede Jelinek in Translation” by Marginalized Margarine Queen
Lesson Plan:
restrictionsandunreliabletranslator_gdozal.pdf
REDACTED: Using Found Texts to Re-Make Meaning
Literary Model: Poems from FELON by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Lesson Plan: redacted-lisaoneill.pdf
Literary Model: Poems from FELON by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Lesson Plan:
redacted-lisaoneill.pdf
Color Poems
Literary Model: "Songalou” or poem created by the instructor
Lesson Plan: colorpoems_cpotts.pdf
Literary Model: "Songalou” or poem created by the instructor
Lesson Plan:
colorpoems_cpotts.pdf
What We Carry: Poeming the Concrete and the Abstract, the Literal and the Metaphorical
Literary Model: "Things We Carry on the Sea" by Wang Ping
Lesson Plan: whatwecarry_loneill.pdf
Literary Model: "Things We Carry on the Sea" by Wang Ping
Lesson Plan:
whatwecarry_loneill.pdf
Finding Inspiration in Sound
Literary Model: None, but note that this lesson works well when paired with “Calling on Memory,” since some sounds may also inspire memory writing. A poem is included at the end as a closing activity, but it is not used as a model for their writing.
Lesson Plan: findinginspirationinsound_skanning.pdf
Literary Model: None, but note that this lesson works well when paired with “Calling on Memory,” since some sounds may also inspire memory writing. A poem is included at the end as a closing activity, but it is not used as a model for their writing.
Lesson Plan:
findinginspirationinsound_skanning.pdf