In this lesson, students engage in a quick poetry analysis to practice key skills for reading poetry. Students first learn the details of the strategy before applying it to a poem.

In this lesson, students analyze songs as an introduction to poetry. Students search songs for examples of poetic devices and assemble them in a storyboard that matches each term with an illustration and a line from the song.

The TPCASTT template will allow students to think deeply during close reading and analysis of poetry. TPCASTT is appropriate for upper elementary through high school.

This webpage has great notes for teacher about teaching sonnets. It has actual notes that can be given to students, as well as a list of strategies teachers can use as part of lessons to help students understand the complexities of the sonnet form.

In this lesson, students get their first taste of analyzing poetry, focusing on the works of Emily Dickinson. Students look at three of Dickinson's poems through activities going along with them.

Students will be able to identify literary elements in a poem and make inferences based on text evidence.

In this plan, students work with the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost to practice incorporating quotations into smooth prose. Students write a paragraph about the main idea of the poem using quotations from the text to back up their claims.

In this lesson, students write theme poems using their content knowledge and sensory awareness of a familiar object. Students first learn about the characteristics and format of a theme poem. They then engage in an online interactive activity in which they select a graphic of a familiar object (e.g., the sun, a heart, a balloon), build a word bank of content area and sensory words related to the object, and write poems within the shape of the object. Finished poems are printed and displayed in class.

Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.

The corrupting influence of slavery on marriage and the family is a predominant theme in Solomon Northup's narrative Twelve Years a Slave. In this lesson, students are asked to identify and analyze narrative passages that provide evidence for how slavery undermined and perverted these social institutions. Northup collaborated with a white ghostwriter, David Wilson. Students will read the preface and identify and analyze statements Wilson makes to prove the narrative is true.

This article provides ideas and lessons on how elementary teachers can integrate webcams from the Arctic and Antarctica into their teaching. Five webcams are highlighted as well as three lessons on writing poetry and observing animal behavior.

In this lesson, students will learn about Renaissance poetry by seveal famous English Renaissance authors using the jigsaw method. Students will become an expert on one of the poets, then share what they learned with a group.

In this lesson focused on Walt Whitman's poetry, students use "I Hear America Singing" as a model to write a poem about their own environment - in this case, their school.

In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth-century America. Through simulation activities and the examination of primary historical materials, students learn how changes in the workplace and less expensive goods led to the transformation of American life.

Students weigh the choices Washington faced in the nation's first Constitutional crisis by following events through his private diary.

This article describes ways to supplement a science unit on the water cycle with the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker. Ideas for art, writing, poetry, and creative movement are included.

This article provides a lesson plan that teaches elementary students to write poems about home using sensory language and imagery. Examples of student work are provided.

In this lesson, students learn background information on Alice Walker, author of THe Color Purple. Students take notes from a powerpoint presentation before creating poetry pictures using collage materials or their own drawings to depict what they see in Walker's poetry.

Explore the traditions and conventions of haiku and compare this classic form of Japanese poetry to a related genre of Japanese visual art.

In this lesson, students are first introduced to a variety of books using rebus writing. They then brainstorm lists of rhyming words that they could use in their own rebus poems. Finally, students create their own rebus poems and share them with an audience.