Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
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."
One of three lesson plans that accompany the essay "The Advanced Class."
Using analytical writing to explore a reading experiences on the page and on the screen.
Encouraging students to push back against culturally accepted norms.
How Jericho Brown, Diana Ross, and Janis Joplin Can Inspire Student Writing
How can campaigning be a jumping-off point for imagination and fiction?
Motivate by showing fascinating ways that words enter our language
Using poetry to reinforce content area words in an English Language Arts classroom.
Lesson plan
Bridging Borders With Words: Writing With Immigrant and Refugee Students
Found Poetry in Workshops
Exploring identity through the senses.