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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 26
   Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
   Students celebrate Frost's birthday by exploring his innovation in the sonnet form by studying poems and presenting them to the class.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
   What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 21
   Today is World Poetry Day.
   Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.