Poetry resources for Women's History Month featuring women poets, influential poems, classroom activities, writing prompts, history, and literary study.
A free Women's History Month poetry lesson using Ada Limón's 'What It Must Have Felt Like' to connect close reading and creative writing with the 19th Amendment and women's suffrage history.
A free interdisciplinary lesson on Emma Lazarus's 'The New Colossus' using historical photography, repeated reading, vocabulary, evidence, immigration history, and poetry analysis.
A free lesson using Joy Harjo's 'Perhaps the World Ends Here' and Carrie Mae Weems's Kitchen Table imagery to explore family rituals, imagery, voice, visual analysis, and creative writing.
A free poetry lesson using Maya Angelou's 'Alone' to teach speaker, repetition, theme, close reading, listening, discussion, creative response, and broader study of Angelou's poetry.
A free poetry lesson using Sara Teasdale's 'The Crystal Gazer' to explore imagery, speaker, stanza, selfhood, close reading, discussion, creative response, and modernist context.
A substantial classroom unit introducing students to women's voices in poetry through thematic reading, research, technology, creative writing, critical writing, discussion, and cultural stereotypes.
A free collection of Women's History Month poems appropriate for young people, with links to related lesson plans and works by classic and contemporary women poets.
A free background resource highlighting women who served as U.S. consultants in poetry or poets laureate, useful for Women's History Month research, poet studies, timelines, and classroom presentations.
A curated collection of free poetry lesson plans for Women's History Month featuring women poets including Lucille Clifton, Emma Lazarus, Adrienne Rich, Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Maya Angelou, and others.
A free poetry lesson centered on Katharine Rolston Fisher's poem about suffragist Alice Paul, with primary-source imagery, close reading, women's suffrage research, writing, and extension projects.
A free poetry and civil-rights lesson using Mahogany L. Browne's poem about Fannie Lou Hamer to explore voting rights, activism, history, close reading, discussion, and research.
A free poetry lesson using Kwoya Fagin Maples's 'Invisible Work' to explore care, family labor, women's work, imagery, close reading, creative writing, comparison, and visual culture.
A free poetry lesson pairing Rita Dove's 'Girls On the Town, 1946' with Rosie the Riveter imagery to explore women, beauty, World War II, history, close reading, and Women's History Month writing.
A free classroom poetry lesson using Lucille Clifton's 'sisters' to develop close reading, listening, discussion, interpretation, poetic-technique analysis, and understanding of women's voices.
A free poetry lesson using Mara Pastor's bilingual poem 'Flora numérica / Numeric Flora' to explore imagery, historical women and trailblazers, women poets, discussion, and research.
A broad free Women's History Month poetry collection with poems, women-poet profiles, audio, video, essays, archival material, books, and lesson plans for classroom exploration.
A free collection connecting poetry with the centennial of the 19th Amendment, women's suffrage, women's history and rights, and new work commissioned from women poets.
A free poetry and history lesson using Aimee Nezhukumatathil's 'One Vote' to explore voting, the women's suffrage movement, the 19th Amendment, visual sources, creative writing, and civic research.
A free poetry lesson using Paisley Rekdal's 'Wild Horses' to explore persona poetry, Seraph Young Ford, voting, women's suffrage, the 19th Amendment, creative work, and research.
A free lesson on Alice Duer Miller's satirical suffrage poem 'Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons,' using a political cartoon, close reading, satire, women's suffrage history, comparison, and research.
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