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Teaching Poetry in High School
by Albert B. Somers
Grades | 9 – 12 |
Type | Book |
Pages | 234 |
Published | June 1999 |
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Description |
Albert Somers offers teachers a vast compendium of resources for teaching poetry in a highly accessible format.
Somers, Albert B. 1999. Teaching Poetry in High School. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Students read sonnets, charting the poems' characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.