Poetry Lesson Plans

Humor at Halloween: My Broom, It Flew!
By: Charlie Buck
Literary Model: Student writing
Lesson Plan: PDF icon humorathalloween_buck.pdf
Writing Bravely
By: Eva Sierra
Literary Model: “Mimesis” by Fady Joudah, “Insight” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, “We Love What We Have” by Mosab Abu-Toha
Lesson Plan: PDF icon writingbravely_sierra.pdf
Writing Directions, Creative Mapping
By: Saraiya Kanning
Literary Model: “Directions To You” by Joy Harjo
Lesson Plan: PDF icon directionstoyou_kanning.pdf
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

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