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My Antonia: Biopoem Writing Strategy Lesson PlanMy Antonia: Biopoem Writing Strategy Lesson Plan
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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2002
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My Antonia: Biopoem Writing Strategy

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Explore the characters in My Antonia by Willa Cather with a biopoem assignment. Pupils use the provided format to write their poems about any character from the book.

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biopoems, my antonia, willa cather, character analysis, character descriptions

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english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • To support students, create a template to hand out that they can fill out for the first draft; this can be done easily using the information provided in the resource

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  • This is part of a unit and is meant to connect to some later assignments

Pros

  • Includes a model poem
  • Provides clear instructions for writing the poem

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  • None

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