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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
   Through a study of Langston Hughes' poetry, students connect his writing to his place in history.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
   August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
   and small. Students learn how to create effective discussion questions and then put them to use in student-led discussions.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
   Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem
   Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Put That on the List: Independently Writing a Catalog Poem
   In this follow-up to writing collaborative catalog poems, students write individual catalog poems about what really matters in their lives, based on Carver's poem "The Car."
7. 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."
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
   Students develop close reading skills connecting sound with sense in the poem "Those Winter Sundays," and write an original text that reflects their new learning.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Summarizing with Haikus
   Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
    This lesson eases students' fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning.

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