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Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Eight 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Milford, Pennsylvania |
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LESSON PLANS
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.
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.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer’s Style through Imitation
This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet’s work then create their own poems based on the original model.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades 7 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  January 29
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
As Poe's "The Raven" is read aloud, students note their reactions and discuss the changes or development of their first impressions as the poem continues.

