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12th grade Black History Month poetry internet activities
Civil Rights Movement - Webquest with Teachers Key (American History)
10 page webquest and teachers key related to the basic history of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA. It contains 44 questions from the history.com website which includes interesting videos and extra information.Your students will learn about how the Civil Rights Movement impacted society in general and the major contributions it made to the advances in equality rights in the United States. Specifically, your students will learn about how the time led to change in society through a series of i
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6th - 12th
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Elements of Poetry Unit High School: Poetry Terms & Elements, Literary Analysis
Need your students to understand how poetic elements create meaning in a text? So often, students are able to identify and define, but they don’t fully understand why literary elements are important or why they are such an essential part of literature. The kind of instruction that focuses on memorizing definitions kills the joy in literature and only serves to make students see English class as a boring waste of time.But when students understand that literary devices are a wonderful way to add
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9th - 12th
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Black History Month - African-American Scientists
This packet has 20 investigations of African-American scientists. Students search online for information about each scientist: when and where they were born, important events in their life, discoveries they are famous for, etc.:Neil deGrasse Tyson, George Washington Carver, Mae Jemison, Percy Lavon Julian, Ernest Everett Just, Marie Maynard Daly, Katherine Johnson, Edward Bouchet, Alice Ball, Roger Arliner Young, Lloyd Hall, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., Ronald McNair, Benjamin Banneker, Charles Drew
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Month BUNDLE - High School
Civil Rights - Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Comparative Bundle
Civil Rights - Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Comparative Bundle - This Civil Rights bundle contains 2 separate resources related to the lives and influence of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in relation to the overall Civil Rights Movement. By buying this 19 page bundle you will save, instead of buying the two resources separately. Both resources contain teacher guides and keys!
Resource #1: Civil Rights - Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Ideas (Collaborative Lesson)
This 15 pa
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7th - 12th
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Poetry Digital Escape Room — Robert Frost Poem Analysis
Your students are going to love this Poetry Digital Escape Room! Students will read and analyze the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. They will solve puzzles in this peaceful scene of snowy woods, glistening mountaintops, and a beautiful, serene frozen lake. In this 360° digital escape room, students will try to escape the woods before the sun goes down! This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone.This game requires reading comprehension stra
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7th - 12th
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Poetry Scavenger Hunt, Poetry Analysis
This Poetry Analysis Worksheet and Scavenger Hunt will have your students digging into poetic terms, poetic devices, figurative language, and poem analysis. Make this scavenger hunt a game by having your students find poetic devices in the poem, check in with you with their information, and create a challenge!This product is perfect for...☀Any poem-short, long, sonnets, lyrical, etc.☀Groups, independent work☀Challenge and competitions*Included in this product is-1. Instructions2. Scavenger Hunt
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6th - 12th
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Music is Poetry: 5-Day Unit | High-Interest Poetry Analysis | Digital & Print
This 5 day poetry UNIT will engage even your most reluctant poetry readers! Use popular songs to teach poetry and poetic devices such as: figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, & repetition, theme & motif, and mood & tone. This collection of interactive lessons uses more than 15 songs to help students analyze poetry and learn more about poetic structure. Included:With your purchase, you will receive a Google Drive folder with the following materials:Introduction to Lyrics as Poetry Inte
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7th - 12th
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Black History Month in Spanish Project Activities Black Leaders + DIGITAL
The infographic style of this Black History Month project is perfect for researching Black leaders. English and Spanish versions are included so that you can use it with all levels and subjects. Digital versions for Google Slides and PowerPoint are included for paperless, hybrid, or distance learning. A rubric (editable in PowerPoint) is included as well as a list of 70+ influential Black leaders. These make a great display for your classroom, bulletin boards, or hallway.⭐This resource is includ
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month in Spanish Activities for Spanish Class BUNDLE
Figurative Language & Poetic Devices Quiz & Activity
A quiz (or can be used as a worksheet) over various figurative language terms and poetic devices. Quiz includes 20 matching and identification of devices in poems.
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Terms covered are:
alliteration
assonance
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
rhyme
eye rhyme
internal rhyme
paradox
carpe diem poetry
true rhyme
near/half rhyme
Activity is an optional internet scavenger hunt of poems and song lyrics
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7th - 12th
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Native American Literature | Sherman Alexie | Indigenous Poetry | Stereotypes
Why are stereotypes dangerous? What is our role in breaking down stereotypes? Students might know some of the stereotypes surrounding Indigenous people, but they likely don’t fully understand where they come from, why they are harmful, or why positive stereotypes can be equally painful as negative ones. This 90-minute lesson will get them examining some of those assumptions when they explore videos featuring teens talking about stereotypes, a powerful slam poem performance, an accessible and
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9th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Unit Bundle | Puritan Primary Source | Colonial America
Want to teach a Puritan literature unit that will get your students engaging independently with texts, making connections to contemporary issues, and excited to discuss essential questions that really matter? From their world view to their religious beliefs to their daily life, the people of the early colonial period lived lives very different from those of contemporary Americans. The texts included in this unit will give students a glimpse into those lives. Three of the pieces included in this
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9th - 12th
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Introduction to Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 & Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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9th - 12th
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Langston Hughes "I Too Sing America" and Walt Whitman Paired Texts Poetry Lesson
Looking for poems to explore the American experience on a deeper level? While Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" is joyful and celebratory, Langston Hughes' poem is more questioning of America's history--though it too is not without hope. Exploring themes of class, race, privilege, and point of view, these two poems are well worth examination.When you teach these timeless and important poems with this unit you will:Start your class period with bellringer freewrite prompts that will h
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11th - 12th
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Fun Introduction to Shakespeare Sonnets Unit: Sonnets 18, 130, 73, & Love Songs
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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9th - 12th
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Reconstruction Timeline Webquest
Reconstruction Timeline WebquestThis webquest will help students better understand the key events of Reconstruction from 1863-1877. The website used is very visual and great for distance learning. The following website is used: Click here to view the website.The webquest contains 30 questions and an answer key is included for the teacher. A QR code is included along with the traditional website link. I recommend using this activity as an introduction activity or as an opportunity for students to
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Reconstruction Bundle Sampler
53 High School Poems: Literary Analysis, Poetry Close Reading, ELA Lesson Plans
Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of close reading and discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts on 53 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with over three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go lessons to teach your students to analyze poetry on their own. The worksheets included here are great choices for supplementing a thematic unit, for adding more voices and p
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9th - 12th
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10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 1
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 27 poems, spanning from Puritan poetry to the 20th century, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class,
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9th - 12th
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Inaugural Poem Analysis - "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman
In order to deepen their understanding of poetry and to mark the inauguration in an educational way, students will watch or listen to Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” read and annotate the poem, and answer questions relating to themselves, literary devices, and racial justice. Includes:Full text of the poem10-question reading guideKeyLiterary devices that are covered include rhyme, repetition, anaphora, personification, chiasmus, and imagery. Definitions are included in case
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Amanda Gorman Poetry Analysis Bundle
The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis & Close Reading High School
The close reading questions on Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” will get your students thinking about big ideas and questions that matter, as well as noticing how the smallest details of a poem contribute to meaning.This poem is one that everyone thinks they know, but they don’t really. It is likely that your students know the title of the poem and the last three lines—which have been quoted in everything from graduation speeches to needlepointed pillows. In fact, the title of t
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Digital Escape Room
Introduction to the Harlem RenaissanceTake your students back in time in this Harlem Renaissance digital escape room. Students will try to solve a series of clues as they enter the 360° digital speakeasy from the 1920s with fun jazz music playing.This is an excellent introductory activity for learning about the Harlem Renaissance and the literature of the time. No background knowledge is necessary to play!Not only will students be introduced to the history of the era, but they will read four pie
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month ELA Activities
Civil Rights - March on Washington - Webquest with Key (Google Docs)
Civil Rights - March on Washington - Webquest with Key - This 8 page document contains a webquest and teachers key related to the basics of the March on Washington during the Civil Rights Movement. It contains 23 questions from a great history website. As well, the resource includes a Google Docs link for use in Google Drive or Google Classroom.Your students will learn about the history and significance of the March on Washington during the Civil Rights Movement. It covers all of the major peop
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5th - 12th
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Literary Analysis & Immigration Lesson: Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
Do you want to deepen your students' understanding of the immigration experience? Questions on two poems about immigration and the America dream will get your students doing close reading and literary analysis of poetic elements, as well as deeper thinking and discussion about the themes and big ideas of the poems.In these two poems, Emma Lazarus and Adrienne Rich present parallel views of the immigrant experience. Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” has the well-known quote that is associated wi
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9th - 12th
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"Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde | Close Reading Poetry Lesson
Want to teach a relatable poem that will get your most reluctant students excited about reading poetry?Audre Lorde’s free verse poem “Hanging Fire” is a great choice for teaching point of view, tone, speaker, gender roles, and diversity--it's also an accessible and relevant poem that has been a favorite of my students for years. In this engaging poem, the teenage speaker worries about everything from braces to her own death. Students will love this poem because of its natural sound and its por
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9th - 12th
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Crash Course Black American History Worksheets Complete Set (Full Bundle)
This ZIP file contains Microsoft Word document worksheets (along with PDF versions) for each of the fifty-one episodes of Crash Course Black American History hosted by Clint Smith.Worksheets contain a combination of fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. Each worksheet is accompanied with an answer key and relevant images.By purchasing this file, you agree not to make it publicly available (on external websites, etc.) or to share with any other teachers. It is intended for classroom use o
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Learn more about poetry resources
Poetry encourages students to engage with language, explore their thoughts and feelings, and connect with the broader human experience. If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital poetry resources, look no further. TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
If you want to make poets out of younger students in elementary grades, then acrostic poems or fill in the blank poems are the perfect place to start. (In fact, many poetry resources on TPT include templates so your students can easily get started producing their own poetry, whether it’s a haiku, or limerick.) For older students in middle and high school, you can find an array of resources to teach them about everything from iambic pentameter, figurative language, to famous poets from history. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your students’ poetry skills in no time.
Fun and engaging poetry activities to try
Teaching students about poetry can be an engaging and creative experience. Here are a few ideas for poetry activities that you can find on TPT to help you introduce and explore the world of poetry with your students:
Poetic Device Scavenger Hunt
Distribute some poems and have students identify and highlight poetic devices like similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Discuss what these are and the overall impact on the reader's experience.
Poetry Analysis Jigsaw
Divide students into small groups, assigning each group a different poem. Have each group analyze the assigned poem's themes, tone, and literary devices, and present their findings to the class.
Poetry Slam or Performance
Organize a poetry slam where students can perform poems they’ve written themselves or those written by famous poets. This will help build confidence and strengthen their public speaking skills.
Writing Poetry from Different Perspectives
Ask students to write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to foster empathy and encourage creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Creating Found Poetry
Provide magazines, newspapers, or online articles. Have students cut out interesting words and phrases, and use them to create their own unique poems.
These (and other!) activities can help deepen your students’ appreciation for poetry and enhance their creative writing skills.
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