Good poetry lesson plans take the fear out of teaching poetry.

There'll be no more stammering through 45 minutes of discussing a poem that takes 2 minutes to read. The Poetry Part 1 teaching guide includes a summary and analysis of 14 poems; a ready-to-annotate and analyze copy of each poem; graphic organizers for digging deeper into metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, and theme; a guide for annotating and analyzing a poem; and answer keys for everything.

It's all bundled into one nice pdf. All you need to do is make copies and do what you do.

Poems in the unit include:

Poems with Similes

1. “What Happens to a Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes
2. “Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns
3. “Simile” by N. Scott Momaday
4. “The Base Stealer” by Robert Francis
5. “Sonnet CXXX” by William Shakespeare

Poems with Metaphors

6. “Dreams” by Langston Hughes
7. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
8. “Sympathy” by Paul Dunbar
9. “Alley Rats” by Carl Sandburg
10. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Poems with Personification

1. “She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms” by Emily Dickinson
2. “The Cat and the Fiddle” by Mother Goose
3. “Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room” by William Blake
4. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

There'll be no more stammering through 45 minutes of discussing a poem that takes 2 minutes to read. The Poetry Part 2 teaching guide includes a summary and analysis of 13 poems; a ready-to-annotate and analyze copy of each poem; graphic organizers for digging deeper into figurative language, personification, imagery, sound devices, and theme; a guide for annotating and analyzing a poem; and answer keys for everything.

It's all bundled into one nice pdf. All you need to do is print it out, make copies, and do what you do.

Poems in the unit include:

Poems with Sound Devices and Figurative Language

1. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
2. “Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns
3. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
4. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
5. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
6. “The Eagle” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
7. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
8. “Eulogy for a Hermit Crab” by Pattianne Rogers
9. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10. “Clooney the Clown” by Shel Silverstein
11. “Birches” by Robert Frost
12. “Eldorado” and “Anabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
13. “Beat! Beat! Drums” by Walt Whitman

Teach the poems of Robert Frost with this 1-2 week unit. Poems in the unit include:

1. "The Road Not Taken"
2. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
3. "Fire and Ice"
4. "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
5. "Acquainted with the Night"
6. "Birches"
7. "Mending Wall"

Lessons cover Frost's Bio, Imagery, Theme, Symbolism, Figurative Language, Irony, Poetry Annotation, and more. This unit includes graphic organizers, answer keys, rubrics, analysis and copies of the aforementioned poems, and more.

This teaching guide for "The Raven" includes lesson plans, graphic organizers with answer keys, a summary, analysis, a quiz with answer keys, an essay rubric, and more. Lessons focus on the following.

1. Paraphrasing the Masters
2. Narrative Poetry
3. Imagery and Sensory Details
4. Sound Devices in Poetry
5. American Romanticism
6. Theme
7. Symbolism

There's enough great stuff here for a 5-7 day unit.