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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
12. 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.
13. Classroom Resources | 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.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Ekphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
    In this lesson, students explore ekphrasis—writing inspired by art. Students find pieces of art that inspire them and compose a booklet of poems about the pieces they have chosen.
15. 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).
16. Classroom Resources | 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.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Is a Sentence a Poem?
    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.
    
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    I've Got the Literacy Blues
    Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
    This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet's work then create their own poems based on the original model.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Locating Purpose in Allusion through Art and Poetry
    Through this lesson, students will learn how to use the literary term "allusion" in discussing how and why authors and artists draw on and transform subject material.

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