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Writing Poetry Lesson Plan

This lesson introduces students to four fun and easy types of poetry writing: everyday poems, blind poems, plug-in poems, and group poems. Students will rotate through four stations to write one poem of each type. They will then choose one poem to revise and consider publishing options. The lesson aims to get students excited about writing and revising poetry through collaborative and independent hands-on activities.

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Writing Poetry Lesson Plan

This lesson introduces students to four fun and easy types of poetry writing: everyday poems, blind poems, plug-in poems, and group poems. Students will rotate through four stations to write one poem of each type. They will then choose one poem to revise and consider publishing options. The lesson aims to get students excited about writing and revising poetry through collaborative and independent hands-on activities.

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If you're about to start a unit on poetry, consider this lesson as a way to get your students

excited about literature! This lesson features four easy types of poems that students will have
fun writing with an option to extend the lesson by revising and publishing student writing.

Learning Objectives
After this lesson students will be able to:

 write an original poem


 revise a poem for a specific audience
 consider various methods of publication for writing, weighing the pros and cons of
each (if the lesson is extended)

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Length
This lesson will take 45-90 minutes. The optional extension activity can take up to an
additional 60 minutes.

Curriculum Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.5
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how
well purpose and audience have been addressed.
(If the lesson is extended) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite
sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing
sources.

Materials Needed
 A paper or canvas bag filled with safe objects that students can handle.

Instructions: Collaborative OR Independent Options


Create four stations and put your students into four groups. Alternatively, create three station
packets that students can engage with independently (excluding ''Station 4: Group Poem'').
Read the lesson Fun Methods for Writing Poetry before setting up your stations. Each station
is based on one of the methods outlined in this article.

 Station 1: The Everyday Poem - Students at this station will start by reading an
everyday poem such as, ''This is Just to Say'' by William Carlos Williams. They
should immediately see that it's a note left from one member of a household to
another. Leave directions at this station for students to write a note to someone who
lives in their house. When you see students finish with their poems, call time and have
them rotate to the next station.
 Station 2: The Blind Poem - Have a bag of objects. Students will reach a hand into
the bag and touch one item. They'll hold it for a minute, feeling all parts of it, before
they pass the bag to the next student and begin writing. Their blind poem should
describe the item they touched. For a more advanced version, you could require
students to use figurative language, such as metaphor or symbolism. They will take
the unseen item and make it represent a larger idea.
 Station 3: The Plug-in Poem - The directions for this station will require that
students write down four lines from one of their favorite songs. Then have them circle
all the nouns and plug in new nouns instead. Do the same with verbs. The result will
be silly sentences that can also be beautiful or profound. Allow students to revise their
poems so that they make more sense.
 Station 4: Group Poem - The directions for this station will have all the students in
the group sit in a circle. One will start with a piece of paper and write on it a single
word that describes ''vacation.'' The next student adds a word, and as the paper
continues around the circle, a poem should emerge that expresses the thoughts,
feelings, hopes, and fears about vacation. If you have a more advanced group, start
multiple papers going around the circle at once.

When students finish the fourth station, they'll have been involved in writing four poems. Ask
them to decide on a single poem to revise for publication. For a collaborative option, pair
students for revision. Students will read their poems out loud twice. Then, students should
consider the question, ''What part of my poem doesn't sound the way I want it to?'' That
should open their minds to revision without having to get too technical about poetry writing.

Lesson Extension
Give students some options as to how to publish their original poems. You may want to have
students explain to you the reasoning behind the choices they make. Publication options
include:

 poster to display
 online literary magazine
 publication in the a newspaper or other publication

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