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High school Presidents' Day poetry thematic unit plans
Poetry Music Activities - Song Lyrics Assignments and Presentations Bundle
This poetry music activities, assignments, and presentations bundle will engage all your students in poetry analysis using song lyrics! Students will love this modern bundle of music-inspired poetry resources. Included are eye-catching presentations, poetry song lyrics assignments and projects, engaging activities, ready-to-print worksheets, and much more! By purchasing this bundle, you are saving more than 30% compared to purchasing these items separately! Included in this poetry music activiti
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7th - 10th
Slam Poetry Unit Plan--Middle-High School
Push students to write, revise, and publish multiple slam poems with this packed Slam Poetry Unit. Lesson plans built around thematically-curated, school-appropriate slam poems will challenge students' notions of poetry AND identity, encouraging them to use their voice and powerful poetic techniques to speak up for what is right and tell their story. The unit provides enough guidance, lesson plans, and materials for teachers to teach without hours of prep, while still leaving room for students
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6th - 12th
Christmas Poetry: Analyzing Some Different Christmas Poems
*** THIS IS A BUNDLED PACK OF THREE LESSON PLAN PACKS WITH ACCOMPANYING WORKSHEETS AND ANSWER KEYS ***This is a great resource for the High School English classroom, as it helps to take a deeper look at some more complex poems about Christmas.LESSON PLAN PACK 1 - Christmas TreesThrough a listening comprehension about the history of the Christmas Tree, students start to think about this iconic symbol of Christmas. We then delve into looking at:* 'Christmas Trees' by Robert Frost* 'Little Tree' by
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9th - 12th
Poetry Mini Lessons, Surviving Senioritis & End-of-Year, BUNDLE of Five Poems
Capture the attention of every student - even those tough seniors - at the end of year in April and May with this low-prep, highly engaging bundle of activities and lessons for poetry! Teaching seniors can be challenging, especially when you round that Spring Break corner. Hey, who am I kidding? Mine never even make it that long! By the end of February, they are as restless as a willow in a windstorm! Over the years, I began to bring in some thematic poetry and interactive projects. I always f
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8th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Paired Passage BUNDLE
This product bundles my four TKAM Paired Passage Close Reading Annotations.
Each annotation contains a passage from the novel, a thematically paired poem, close reading directions, questions, a graphic organizer, and most have a writing prompt.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird BUNDLE
"Poetry and Philosophy" POETRY UNIT (AP Literature/High School)
This is my full poetry unit that I teach in my AP English Literature and Composition class (which is up to date with the 2019 changes). While attempting to accomplish the analytical skill building necessary for success in AP Lit, I also nestle this unit in my "Literature and Philosophy" quarter. Engaging philosophical content drives the thematic focus of many lessons and the poems, adding to the cohesiveness and depth of the unit. The poems covered in the unit were written mainly by classic B
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Year BUNDLE!
American Literature Introduction - Poetry, Music and Visual Media Unit
This three-week unit is an excellent introduction to American Literature and meets the needs of visual, auditory, and linguistic learners. Students are introduced to American voices and ideals through poetry, music, and art. The unit sets high expectations for close reading and literary analysis while also encouraging creativity. Furthermore, the unit encourages critical thinking by requiring students to synthesize texts with universal themes and incorporates all English Language Arts Common Cor
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8th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
The American Dream in literature and today unit plan
This 26-day unit introduces the historical concept of the American Dream. Five days of the unit are devoted to "A Raisin in the Sun." We also read some articles about the American Dream today, and students write an essay on literature's depiction of the American Dream and its relevance today.
At the beginning, each day focuses on an aspect of the dream, plus an aspect of reading poetry (such as persona/tone, poetic language, form, etc.). After that, we read "A Raisin in the Sun." Finally, we re
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Love Poems Valentine's Day Poetry Analysis for Middle and High School ELA
There's nothing middle and high school kids love more than love gone wrong! Love and Love-ish Poetry Analysis includes five poems that students read and analyze to determine if the poems are true love poems or simply love-ish (love gone wrong!). After reading and analyzing a poem as a class, students read and analyze 2-3 poems of their choice independently. Using the poems as inspiration, students write a "Found Sonnet," a sonnet that uses words, phrases, and lines from existing poems to create
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7th - 10th
Poetry Playbook: Analysing Figurative Language and Meaning in Popular Songs
This comprehensive 30 slide/page package introduces students to literary devices, including: simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, and mood. After mastering the definition of a device, students apply that knowledge to unveil implicit meaning in songs that they love. Students "leave tracks of their thinking" by providing annotations and highlighting right on the page-- which promotes higher order and critical thinking over rote me
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Winter Poetry Unit with Annotations, Sample Explication Essays, & MORE!
This unit includes TEN poems by classic authors that involve winter in some respect. Some poems use winter to symbolize absence, others age, and still others unity. Five of these poems have a more positive representation of winter while the remaining five have a more negative representation of winter-- however, this is debatable! And that is exactly what students are going to do! I was feeling inspired by the winter and started researching classic poems about the season. What I came to real
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Master the Standards: RL2 with a Poetry "The Road Not Taken" Mini-unit
This poetry mini-unit for grades 6-10 will help students to master standard RL 2: Analyze the development of theme over the course of a text. In this mini-unit, students analyze the theme of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, looking at how the theme develops through the four stanzas. Students use the TP-CASTT method of poetry analysis to:
-Predict using the title.
-Paraphrase the poem.
-Analyze connotative language (figurative, imagery, and sounds).
-Analyze the attitude of the poem.
-Det
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6th - 10th
Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
The Odyssey Unit Activities - Inclusive Text Pairings - The Odyssey Worksheets
Ready to make your ODYSSEY unit more inclusive? This resource is part of a series to help teachers find supplements and updates for core texts in order to add more inclusivity to their curriculum. If you're teaching THE ODYSSEY, this resource will save you tons of time!Key Elements:✅ THE ODYSSEY themes✅ Essential questions for the epic poem✅ Literary elements in THE ODYSSEY✅ Three ready-to-go worksheets For each text, we share easy changes, like paired texts (videos, poems, articles, etc.) you c
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7th - 10th
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WINTER High School Speech Therapy Vocabulary and Grammar Skill Sheets Bundle
These 15 seasonally appropriate units address so many winter speech and language goals in an easy to copy format. Divided into 5 timely themes per month and provide 2 in-depth learning pages and answer keys for each. I have been using these worksheets for 2 years with my own students and they are VERY well received by middle and high school students. These worksheets focus on semantic and syntactic skills that many of our students lack and that are required to pass standardized assessments. E
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8th - 12th
THE HIGHWAYMAN Scavenger Hunt
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This booklet contains twelve stations that aid in students exploration of the poem The Highwayman. Students will identify elements of figurative language including: metaphors, similes, personification, alliterations and more.
The download is formatted with a convenient booklet layout which can be stapled together making it easy for students to work through.
This booklet covers the following English Language Arts Benchmarks :
1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
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7th - 9th
The American Dream in literature introduction
This 5-day mini-unit serves as an introduction to the historical concept of the American Dream. I use it with my seniors before we read "A Raisin in the Sun." We also finish up by reading some articles about the American Dream today, and students write an essay on the historical depiction of the American Dream and its relevance today.
Each day focuses on an aspect of the dream, plus an aspect of reading poetry (such as persona/tone, poetic language, form, etc.).
Included in this unit is a dail
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fireside Poets Bundle: Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, & Whittier - CCSS
This is a bundle of our popular units from the early Fireside Poets. Students analyze diverse poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Students will: Delve into the context of each author's purpose, read the texts (included), engage with the vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences supported by evidence, and complete creative writing assignments. Each unit has daily l
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8th - 12th
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MyPerspectives British Literature Unit 1: Slides & Creative Handouts (BUNDLE!)
This British Literature unit plan (112 Slides) encapsulates a Beowulf Study and various poetry, all of which express the theme of heroism. The unit allows students to explore the mark of a hero and take a stance on heroism deriving from success OR sacrifice based on the texts in the unit in the form of an end of unit essay assessment. This resource includes do now's, exit tasks, discussion questions, video links, theme-related poetry, as well as an end-of-unit assessment. Students will engage wi
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9th - 12th
Presidents Day-Speech Therapy-Printable Pack
►Celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln while learning about Presidents' Day in Speech and Language Therapy!►Fun, theme based packet which targets so many goals while using one theme.. This packet is perfect for mixed groups and students working in the same group but at different functional levels. Semantics, syntax, following directions, articulation and so much more are included along with 5 FUN THEMED GAMES.►Once the games are printed and laminated the rest of the
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K - 12th
Also included in: February Speech Therapy Speech & Language Therapy Themed Bundle
The ULTIMATE Unit Plan for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
This is probably my most successful unit plan yet! I used the graphic novel version of F451 and we watched the newest movie on HBO at the end. My students really enjoyed all of the activities as we built context and explored current-day issues, all while hammering in ELA standards.
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9th - 12th
Thanksgiving Poetry Activity with Questions and Answer Key
This is a beautifully-formatted resource featuring classic Thanksgiving poems, each with questions and tasks. Engaging graphics and questions are suitable for a poetry introduction or a review. If you're looking for an engaging activity to celebrate Thanksgiving with your upper middle or high school students, check this out. Includes answer key.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This Thanksgiving Poetry activity features the following poems: "Over the River and Through the Woods" by L
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9th - 12th
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Analyzing Rhetoric and Poetic Devices in Hamilton
Infuse your classroom with the exciting, contemporary hip-hop of Hamilton: an American Musical! Loved around the world, Hamilton can bring energy and joy to poetry and rhetorical analysis. This packet combines both, per needs in my curriculum; however, it's highly customizable, so you can adjust the focus as needed for your own class. This lesson aims to help students recognize the arguments in music and art all around them.Packet asks students to analyze "Cabinet Battle #1," "Cabinet Battle #2,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Imagists vs. Romantics: A Poetry Lesson to Facilitate Style Analysis
In this comparative poetry activity, students will compare and contrast two completely different styles of poetry-- the Imagists and the Romantics. Students will also get to try their hand at writing in both styles to understand the traits of modern poetry vs. Romantic poetry. Objectives• To use close reading annotation skills to assist poetry analysis• To identify and analyze literary elements and techniques in poetry in order to arrive at a thematic interpretation • To craft valid, logica
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Night by Elie Wiesel – Lesson Plans, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL Unit
Looking for everything you need to teach Elie Wiesel's memoir Night all in one place? Here it is. This MASSIVE BUNDLE DEAL includes an entire Unit's worth (one full marking period) of in-depth daily lesson plans with engaging bell-ringers and lesson activities, printable teaching materials, unit projects, reading comprehension assessments, vocabulary in context, and daily lessons in PowerPoint.You will receive 75 pages of lesson plans, assessments, and supplemental materials, a Unit Plan with Bi
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9th - 12th
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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.
Frequently asked questions about teaching poetry
What types of poetry resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of poetry resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular poetry lessons include learning how to write haikus, acrostic poems, limericks, and free verse.
How do I find poetry resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing poetry lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for poetry resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of poetry lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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