Images by Jamie Street, Hennie Stander, the Laverne Harrell Clark Photographic Collection, Ekaterina Shevchenko, and Nick Fewings. It begins with a brainstorming exercise, which leads into a poem writing activity where students are asked not just to write about the previous day, but to do so with imagery and specificity. This lesson plan invites students to write about the previous twenty-four hours of their lives as a way to think about everyday sights, sounds, and experiences. Garcia Naranjo as inspiration, and students are invited to write about metaphorical, biological, chosen, or other ancestors. In this lesson plan, also about ancestry, Eva Sierra challenges students to write poems about the gifts they've been given by their ancestors and how they honor those gifts. Fall by Edward Hirsch Fall, falling, fallen. A guided brainstorm gives students the opportunity to list everything they know about this person as well as everything they'd like to know, and they then use this material to create their own poems or vignettes about the person. Jacqui Alexander and Yanara Friedland, and engaging in a class discussion, students are prompted select a person (or group of people) from their family lineage. “What might we get out of spending time with our dead and lost loved ones, with our ancestors we’ve never known?” asks this lesson plan. Writing Toward Our Lost Loved Ones(Matisse Rosen) In an extension to this activity, confident writers are challenged to not only write about how their chosen object has influenced them, but how they in turn have influenced the object. Using Alberto Ríos' "Border Boy" as inspiration, students are invited to compose their own poems about an object that has shaped them, much like growing up along the border shaped Ríos. "Border Boy" by Alberto Ríos (Teré Fowler-Chapman) Students are tasked with using figurative language and experimenting with metaphor, simile, and personification. In this lesson plan, students read two poems by Ada Limón-"The Quiet Machine" and "Downhearted"-and take inspiration from them to write their own poems about either silence or the heart. Hyperdocs are a great way to share poetry with your students while virtual learning, hybrid, or face to face! Everything you need is all in one place.Here are five hot-off-the-presses poetry lesson plans for middle and high school students, from our Writing the Community teaching artists! How This Machine Works(Rachel Mindell) This hyperdoc is ideal for middle school or high school students and is editable once you make a copy. Learn more about Rita Dove here.Įducator Ann Cox, who authored our Poet Laureate series last year, has created this new hyperdoc for three of Dove’s poems. Norton, 1999), named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Norton, 2009), winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award On the Bus with Rosa Parks (W. Norton, 2016), recipient of the 2017 NAACP Image Award, the 2017 Library of Virginia Award and a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Sonata Mulattica (W. Her books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004 (W.W. Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, and as poet laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006.
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