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Poetry Lesson Plans

What does color mean to you?
By: Sophie Daws
Literary Model: Adélia Prado, “Praise for a Color”
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Editing Poems as a Group
By: Matisse Rosen
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Lesson Plan: PDF icon editingasagroup_rosen.pdf
A Timeline of My Inspiration
By: Teré Fowler-Chapman
Literary Model: "Counting Descent" by Clint Smith
Lesson Plan: PDF icon timelineofinspiration_fowlerchapman.pdf
Living Large with Earthworms
By: Charlie Buck
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Lesson Plan: PDF icon livinglargewithearthworms_buck.pdf
To Childhood’s Crickets
By: Eva Sierra
Literary Model: “Cricket’s Lament” by Paola Valenzuela
Lesson Plan: PDF icon sierra_childhoods_crickets.pdf
Unique Like Snowflakes
By: Eva Sierra
Literary Model: None
Lesson Plan: PDF icon sierra_unique_like_snowflakes.pdf
Titles: Art on their Own
By: Sophie Daws
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Why do you give?
By: Wren Goblirsch
Literary Model: "When Giving Is All We Have" by Alberto Ríos
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Noise: The Gift You Can't Hold
By: Sophie Daws
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Repair Poems
By: Wren Goblirsch
Literary Model: None
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