Free American poetry resources including lesson plans, famous American poets, historical poems, literary analysis, worksheets, and classroom activities.
Openly licensed Grade 8 U.S. history lesson using primary sources and a Two-Voice Poem to explore perspectives of groups during the Civil War.
Openly licensed Grades 9–10 lesson that uses contrasting perspectives, characterization, comparison, and student-created Two-Voice Poems.
Free Smithsonian K–2 poetry lesson introducing the three-line blues stanza, rhythm, music, and Langston Hughes, with younger students composing their own blues poems.
Free Library of Congress interdisciplinary lesson combining primary-source research, historical analysis, poetic craft, multimedia, and collaborative epic-poem writing.
Openly licensed Grades 8–9 poetry lesson that uses Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven to teach symbolism, figurative language, textual evidence, and free-verse writing.
Openly licensed Grade 8 history lesson that uses primary sources and Two-Voice Poetry to compare competing perspectives on Manifest Destiny.
Openly licensed Grades 9–12 U.S. history lesson connecting civil-rights primary texts, segregation and integration, paired-text analysis, and creation of a two-voice poem.
Openly licensed Grade 9–10 poetry lesson in which students compare poetry and speeches, analyze word choice and rhetorical strategies, compose a poem, and consider poetry as a vehicle for change.
Openly licensed high-school lesson using Woody Guthrie, song lyrics, historical context, and blackout poetry to explore social commentary, figurative meaning, and poetic expression.
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