Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
A Lesson Plan for “Dream Poems”
The spider web as a helpful tool to map out personal narrative.
Writing into Autumn
Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month
A Creative Exercise in Seeing, Writing, and Making Spontaneous Broadsides
Poetic Cartographies in the Virtual Classroom
Using the Poetry of Paz, Pacheco, Gutierrez, Blanco, and Deltoro as Models
Exploring Emotion in Poetry with Kendrick Lamar
Using dreams to create poetry and visual art.
Using "Afro-Latina" by Elizabeth Acevedo to ground students in their multiple identities and lived experiences.
Winning Over Skeptical Students with E. E. Cummings
Using typewriters to excite poetry students and to engage them in generative writing and the power of language.
Using a poem by Luo Binwang as a model for writing odes about our favorite animals.
Engaging word play, collage, and the poetry of Edward Lear and Sonia Sanchez to create original poetry.
A Garden Mythology
An activity inspired by the poems of Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman
Explore the musical and rhythmic elements of spoken poetry with Sekou Sundiata’s “Shout Out.”
Teaching Students to Describe Emotions in Poetry
Using a Poem by Jayne Cortez
Activities for literary and personal empowerment
The Value of Reciting Poetry
One of three lesson plans that accompany the essay "The Advanced Class."
One of three lesson plans that accompany the essay "The Advanced Class."