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Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros Unit PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros Unit Plan
Publisher
National Endowment for the Humanities
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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Unit Plan

Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros

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By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating original, evocative verse.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

figurative language, poetry, poetry writing, poets, walt whitman, langston hughes, robert frost, shel silverstein

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.7.4 RL.4.5 RL.7.5 RL.5.5 RL.3.5

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