Teaching suggestions:
Teaching suggestions:
Teaching Suggestions:
Teaching Suggestion:
Teaching Suggestions:
Teaching Suggestions:
Want to talk more about poetry? Jessica Lindberg would love to have that conversation!
jlindber@highlands.edu
Concerned about plagiarism? Want your students to grapple with their own ideas on the poems instead of rehashing Sparknotes articles?
Try studying poems from this list in class to help students get a feel for how to read/analyze poetry. Then, assign poetry essays about poems that are less studied. Here is a list of contemporary poets with great poems for student poetry essays: