How Do You Design A Middle School Poetry Anthology Unit?
Most middle school English Language Arts curricula include poetry. This unit can be a challenging one for teachers, who typically have less familiarity with this genre than with those of prose. Also, the category of poetry is rather wide, making it difficult for teachers to decide on what to focus. A unit that centers around an anthology-whether it includes poetry that students have found, written, or a combination of both-helps to focus the unit and gives students a tangible product toward which to work. Expose students to a range of poetry. Poetry comes in many forms and covers a plethora of topics. Share as many different kinds of poems with students as possible, and help them to understand that there is no one answer to the question “What is a poem?” Determine what skills you want your students to master; this will determine your final outcome. For example, if you mainly want your students to learn how to write various kinds of poems, then have their anthologies solely or primarily
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