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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
   After reading John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player," students write poems describing themselves five years in the future. The teacher takes the poems and mails them to students in five years.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 19
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry
   Students explore the idea of "crossing boundaries" through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
   Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
7. 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.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
   Gwendolyn Brooks published Bronzeville Boys and Girls in 1956.
   After students have read and discussed several poems from Brooks' collection, they create a poetry anthology for their own family, neighborhood, or classroom.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 1
    Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
    Students examine the poem "Dreams" and identify metaphors in each sentence. Groups of students then compose poems with metaphors for dreams.

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