How to Teach Poetry: Lesson Plan 11 (Using PowerPoetry)

Use PowerPoetry.org to enhance and augment poetry classwork
Browse Action Guides built on issues that are commonly present in teen poetry with the aim to inspire social change
Discover skill set Tip Guides for discovering new styles and forms of poetry
Use poetry glossary to make students more familiar with common poetry terms/devices and excited for using these techniques in their writing

Use all resources offered by PowerPoetry.org to enhance and augment work done in class

By this point in the course, teacher(s) and students are familiar with the Tip Guide and Action Guide resources PowerPoetry.org has to offer, but the Glossary of Poetic Terms has yet to be explored in full
Each group in the classroom will choose one term from the Glossary to focus on
For the first 30 minutes of class each group will write a collective poem (10-15 lines) incorporating the chosen term
For the remainder of class, each group will briefly present to the class the meaning of their chosen term and its use in their poem

Students will review in-depth the remainder of the Glossary
Students will choose a different term than the one chosen in class to base a poem around and construct a 10-15 line poem
The day students will present their poems to the class, but instead of sharing the term beforehand, the class will have to guess for each poem which term was chosen

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