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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
   Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa"
   Students explore what Carol Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect" by reading Nikki Giovanni's poem, "Nikki-Rosa," and then writing about childhood memories of their own.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
   Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry
   To understand the historical background that influenced Maya Angelou's poems, students research events to produce trading cards using the ReadWriteThink Trading Card App or Trading Card Student Interactive. Through the sharing of these trading cards, students understand the historical background as they analyze Angelou's poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
   Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
   Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
   What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
   Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   What is Poetry? Contrasting Poetry and Prose
   Students often find poetry frustrating and meaningless. By helping students think critically about the differences between poetry and prose, this introduction sets the stage for different strategies for comprehending poetic texts.