Poetry Lesson Plans

Remember This Planet
By: Sophie Daws
Literary Model: “Remember” by Joy Harjo
Lesson Plan: PDF icon rememberthisplanet_daws.pdf
What is Poetry? Modeling After Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poem
By: Taylor Johnson
Literary Model: “What is Poetry?” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lesson Plan: PDF icon whatispoetry_johnson.pdf
Making Little Poetry Books of Questions to a Nature Being
By: Taylor Johnson
Literary Model: “Speaking Tree”, by Joy Harjo, “The Tyger” by William Blake, and Rose, Where Did you Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
Lesson Plan: PDF icon makinglittlepoetrybooks_johnson.pdf
If Wayne Lived in Tucson
By: Eva Sierra
Literary Model: “Wayne the Stegosaurus” by Kenn Nesbitt
Lesson Plan: PDF icon ifwaynelivedintucson_sierra.pdf
Comparison Snake
By: Matisse Rosen
Literary Model: None
Lesson Plan: PDF icon comparisonsnake_rosen.pdf
Autobiographical and Archeological: A Poetry Lesson
By: Saraiya Kanning
Literary Model: Suzi F. Garcia’s “A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood” by Suzi F. Garcia
Lesson Plan: PDF icon autobiographicalarcheological_skanning.pdf
Voice, Speaker, and Audience
By: Saraiya Kanning
Literary Model: “Give Yourself Some Flowers” by Marcus Amakur
Lesson Plan: PDF icon voicespeakeraudience_skanning.pdf
Short Sensory Activity for K-5
By: Saraiya Kanning
Literary Model:
Lesson Plan: PDF icon sensoryactivity_kanning.pdf
Lost Words of the Desert
By: Saraiya Kanning
Literary Model: Excerpt from the Lost Words (see lesson plan .pdf)
Lesson Plan: PDF icon lostwordsofthedesert_kanning.pdf
Making a Poem Video
By: Taylor Johnson
Literary Model: No
Lesson Plan: PDF icon makingapoemvideo_johnson.pdf

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