Poetry Lesson Plans
Up Above My Head I Hear Music: Using the Form of Blues Songs to Make Poems
Literary Model: "Up Above My Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Lesson Plan:
blues_songs.pdf
Literary Model: "Up Above My Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Lesson Plan:
blues_songs.pdf
Dear Blue, Dear Opal, Dear Magenta: Writing Epistolary Poems to Every Color of the Rainbow
Literary Model:
Lesson Plan: epistolary_poems_to_colors.pdf
Literary Model:
Lesson Plan:
epistolary_poems_to_colors.pdf
The Fish as Dream Bedroom
Literary Model: “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
Lesson Plan: the_fish_as_dream_bedroom.pdf
Literary Model: “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
Lesson Plan:
the_fish_as_dream_bedroom.pdf
Writing a Eulogy Poem
Literary Model: Sherman Alexie's "Eulogy" Lisa O'Neill's "My Journal Was a Hiding Place"
Lesson Plan: writingaeulogypoem-lisaoneill.pdf, definitionsfortheday.pdf
Literary Model: Sherman Alexie's "Eulogy" Lisa O'Neill's "My Journal Was a Hiding Place"
Lesson Plan:
writingaeulogypoem-lisaoneill.pdf, definitionsfortheday.pdf
My shoulder is shimmery, broken pieces of dust
Literary Model: "Legacy" by Maurice Kenny or student example poems
Lesson Plan: my_shoulder_is_shimmery_broken_pieces_of_dust.pdf
Literary Model: "Legacy" by Maurice Kenny or student example poems
Lesson Plan:
my_shoulder_is_shimmery_broken_pieces_of_dust.pdf
Metaphor Madness
Literary Model: "Words are Birds" by Francisco X. Alarcón
Lesson Plan: metaphormadness-saraiyakanning.pdf
Literary Model: "Words are Birds" by Francisco X. Alarcón
Lesson Plan:
metaphormadness-saraiyakanning.pdf
Witnesses of Birth: Imagining the Beginning of a Character
Literary Model: “Birth Witness” by Ofelia Zepeda
Lesson Plan: birthwitnesslessonplan-saraiyakanning.pdf
Literary Model: “Birth Witness” by Ofelia Zepeda
Lesson Plan:
birthwitnesslessonplan-saraiyakanning.pdf