Students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will learn how poems are classified according to the Metric rules. Also, students will be able to analyze several examples of poems written by famous poets such as Antonio Machado, Jose Marti, and Garcia Lorca.

This lesson encourages students to closely examine a singular aspect of a poem by writing a mirror poem: a poem that imitates another in a specific chosen way. Students read a poem, then write a mirror poem copying an element of the first one as a way of analyzing its use of a specific poetic technique.

This is a brainstorming activity to gauge the depth and breadth of your student's poetic elements knowledge.You can use this as a pre assessment or formative assessment depending on your instructional needs.The slides can be changed depending on your grade level standards and the literary or poetic elements that you are focusing on in your instruction.

This lesson encourages students to reflect on personal tragedy by examining how others reacted to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Students examine some poems written after the attacks before composing their own post-tragedy poems.

This lesson has students carefully read and analyze "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. It allows for adaptation to cover any of several literary devices used in the poem. Also provided are three different ways for students to respond the 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.