Poetry Lesson Plans
Imagery with Unicorns
Literary Model: "While Riding an Elephant, I Think of Unicorns" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Lesson Plan:
imagery_with_unicorns.pdf
Literary Model: "While Riding an Elephant, I Think of Unicorns" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Lesson Plan:
imagery_with_unicorns.pdf
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
Literary Model: Nazim Hikmet's poem, "Things I Didn’t Know I Loved" and/or Norman Dubie's poem, "A List"
Lesson Plan: things_i_didnt_know_i_loved.pdf
Literary Model: Nazim Hikmet's poem, "Things I Didn’t Know I Loved" and/or Norman Dubie's poem, "A List"
Lesson Plan:
things_i_didnt_know_i_loved.pdf
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