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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry from Prose
   Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 11
   Veterans Day is celebrated in the United States today.
   Students write biographical poems about a soldier.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes
   Students analyze a photograph, brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and feelings, work in pairs to describe a character's experience, and create a poem using their ideas and similes.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 20
   Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
   Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.