Poetry Lesson Plans

The Sound of Daydream
By: Elizabeth Falcón
Literary Model: Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Lesson Plan: PDF icon the-sound-of-daydream.pdf
Unleashed: Poems by Pets
By: Glen Grunberger
Literary Model: "Stalker," by Jeanne Schinto; "Buddy" by Andrew Hudgins
Lesson Plan: PDF icon unleashed-poems_by_pets.pdf
Making Objects Human
By: Erin Armstrong
Literary Model: "Bailar" by Carmen Tafolla
Lesson Plan: PDF icon making_objects_human_1.pdf
Whale Song Acrostic
By: Elizabeth Falcón
Literary Model:
Lesson Plan: PDF icon whale_song_acrostic.pdf
Praise for a Color
By: Christina Vega-Westhoff
Literary Model: Adélia Prado, “Louvação para uma Cor” and Ellen Watson, "Praise for a Color"
Lesson Plan: PDF icon praise_for_a_color.pdf
The Red Wheelbarrow
By: Neil Diamente
Literary Model: "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
Lesson Plan: PDF icon the_red_wheelbarrow.pdf
My Name Is...
By: Sarah Kortemeier, Julie Lauterbach-Colby
Literary Model: "allegory of the black man at work in a synagogue" by Roger Bonair-Agard
Lesson Plan: PDF icon my_name_is.pdf
Poetry in Performance: An Introduction
By: Sarah Kortemeier
Literary Model:
Lesson Plan: PDF icon poetry_in_performance-an_introduction.pdf
Comparison Odes with Pablo Neruda
By: Sarah Kortemeier
Literary Model: "Ode to My Socks," by Pablo Neruda
Lesson Plan: PDF icon comparison_odes_with_pablo_neruda.pdf
Capturing Children's Thoughts
By: Gillian Jerome
Literary Model: Langston Hughes, Dennis Lee, Juan Felipe Herrera, Shel Silverstein
Lesson Plan: PDF icon Hughes-Langston_GillianJerome_Verse_Lesson_3(2).pdf

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