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Exploring the Real World: Discussing Poetry and Publishing Poems Lesson Plan
Initiating their own questions about meaning and content, students will read and analyze poetry. They will ask and answer questions during fishbowl-style discussions with their classmates and use the writing process to create original poetry, including brainstorming, editing, and drafting. They will use Microsoft Word to publish their original poems.

Exploring the Real World: Discussing Poetry and Publishing Poems

• "Template: Poetry Notebook" (Word)
• "We Wear the Mask"
• "Fame is a Fickle Food"
• "The Road Not Taken"
• "Step Sheet: Using a Projection Device"
• "Fishbowl Student Checklist"
• "Fishbowl Teacher Checklist"
• "Poetry Notebook Rubric"
• "Worksheet: Haiku"
• "Step Sheet: Creating a New Document"
• "Step Sheet: Creating WordArt"
• "Worksheet: Object Metaphor Poetry"
• "Step Sheet: Inserting Pictures into Microsoft Word"
• "Worksheet: End of the World Poetry"

On-line Resources

• Scholastic
  Poetry units for teachers of grades1-8.
• The Academy of American Poets
  A website with information about current workshops, poems, ideas on poetry.
• Favorite Poem Project
  Includes an archive of 18,000 submissions for favorite poetry. This site includes video clips and text of poems read by people of all ages and backgrounds. Also includes a page where your favorite published poems can be submitted to the archive.
• Teen Poetry
  The Online Poetry Journal, sponsored by Poetic License.
• Poetic License
  A cyber magazine created, maintained and edited by teens- Digital Poetry Café.
• Representative Poetry Online
  An archive of public domain poetry from the University of Toronto.

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