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