Poetry Lesson Plans
Holiday Shape Poems
Literary Model: "Here I Go Down Circle Road" by Shel Silverstein
Lesson Plan:
holidayshapepoems_kristennelson.pdf
Literary Model: "Here I Go Down Circle Road" by Shel Silverstein
Lesson Plan:
holidayshapepoems_kristennelson.pdf
Place Poems
Literary Model: "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" by Octavia Butler
Lesson Plan: place_poems.pdf
Literary Model: "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" by Octavia Butler
Lesson Plan:
place_poems.pdf
Letter to Younger/Future Self Poems
Literary Model: "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard" by Patrick Rosal "from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass" by Evie Shockley
Lesson Plan: letter_to_youngerfuture_self_poems.pdf
Literary Model: "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard" by Patrick Rosal "from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass" by Evie Shockley
Lesson Plan:
letter_to_youngerfuture_self_poems.pdf
Nighttime
Literary Model: "Untitled" from Poetry Everywhere (optional, see attachment)
Lesson Plan: nighttime_.pdf, untitled_from_poetry_everywhere-2.pdf, in_the_night_-_worksheet_1.pdf, in_the_night_-_worksheet_2.pdf
Literary Model: "Untitled" from Poetry Everywhere (optional, see attachment)
Lesson Plan:
nighttime_.pdf, untitled_from_poetry_everywhere-2.pdf, in_the_night_-_worksheet_1.pdf, in_the_night_-_worksheet_2.pdf
"Carrying Our Words"
Literary Model: "Carrying Our Words" by Ofelia Zepeda
Lesson Plan: 22carryingourwords22.pdf
Literary Model: "Carrying Our Words" by Ofelia Zepeda
Lesson Plan:
22carryingourwords22.pdf
They Never Had It Made
Literary Model: "He Never Had It Made" by Nikki Finney
Lesson Plan: they_never_had_it_made.pdf
Literary Model: "He Never Had It Made" by Nikki Finney
Lesson Plan:
they_never_had_it_made.pdf
Promises to a River
Literary Model: "The Brook" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lesson Plan: promisestoariver.pdf
Literary Model: "The Brook" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lesson Plan:
promisestoariver.pdf