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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
    Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
    What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry
    Students explore the idea of "crossing boundaries" through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
    Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
    Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic," and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
    Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
    Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.

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