Conversation Poems
Dean Kostos, poet, memoirist, translator, and T&W teaching artist, connects history to the present in this lesson on conversation poems featuring Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Grade(s) taught: 6th–8th Genre(s) taught: Poetry Download: Conversation Poems Common Core State Standards: (Refer to English Language Arts Standards > History/Social Studies > Grades 6–8) ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning…