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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 26
   Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
   Students celebrate Frost's birthday by exploring his innovation in the sonnet form by studying poems and presenting them to the class.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
   Using several translations of the same passage of Beowulf, this lesson introduces students to the idea that translation is not an objective practice, but that it involves "imaginative reconstruction."
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 21
   Today is World Poetry Day.
   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.