This year I’m celebrating National Poetry Month with “30 Days of Poetry” on the Super ELA! Instagram and TikTok accounts. Follow along with me as I discuss thirty different approaches and ideas to help jazz up your poetry lessons. (And I promise that not one of them is TPCASTT!)
See the list below for links to each installment of “30 Days of Poetry.”
@maskedmotif Only four days until #nationalpoetrymonth! This year I’m celebrating NPM with 30 approaches to poems—one for every day in April. Join me on this journey, won’t you? #poetry #poetryanalysis #april #english #languagearts #ela ♬ original sound - Super ELA!
30 Days of Poetry
- April 1 – How to Explore a Poem (Poetry Analysis)
- April 2 – Setting Emily Dickinson’s Poetry to Music (Hymn Verse)
- Get the example chord sheet for ukulele.
- April 3 – Write like Walt Whitman! (Free Verse and Anaphora)
- April 4 – Poetry vs. Prose + Suitcase Poem Prompt
- April 5 – Performing Poetry with the Pentad
- Get the Pentad resources.
- April 6 – Let’s Get Critical: Reader-Response Criticism
- Get Steven Lynn’s Texts and Contexts.
- April 7 – Figurative Language in Music: “Bull in a China Shop” by BNL (Metaphor)
- Get the teaching resources.
- April 8 – Write like Langston Hughes (Metaphor and Dialect)
- April 9 – Write like a Romantic (Nature Edition)
- April 10 – Let’s Get Critical: Historical Criticism
- Get Steven Lynn’s Texts and Contexts.
- April 11 – Figurative Language in Music: “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer (Imagery)
- Get the teaching resources.
- April 12 – Teaching Tone with Sylvia Plath
- Get Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons.
- April 13 – Write like Gwendolyn Brooks (Syncopation and Rhythm)
- April 14 – Concrete Poems
- April 15 – Let’s Get Critical: Psychological Criticism
- Get Steven Lynn’s Texts and Contexts.
- April 16 – Heckin Scansion
- Check out For Better for Verse for more help with scansion.
- April 17 – Figurative Language in Music: “Grenade” by Bruno Mars (Hyperbole)
- Get the teaching resource, including an example mini-annotation, exemplar analysis, and student worksheet so that they can identify figurative language in songs of their choice!
- April 18 – Setting Emily Dickinson’s Poetry to Music (Ballad Verse, a.k.a. the Gordon Lightfoot Edition)
- Get the example chord sheet for ukulele.
- April 19 – The Sonnet Cycle: Italian Sonnets
- April 20 – Figurative Language in Music: “Firework” by Katy Perry (Simile and Metaphor)
- Get the teaching resources.
- April 21 – The Sonnet Cycle: English Sonnets
- Get the Sonnet 18 analysis handout.
- April 22 – Blackout Poetry (Erasure)
- April 23 – R+J: Write Your Own Soliloquy (Happy Shakespeare Day!)
- Get the teaching resource.
- April 24 – Write a Haiku with Emoji
- April 25 – The Missing Episode
- April 26 – Found Poetry
- April 27 – Let’s Get Critical: Deconstruction
- Get Steven Lynn’s Texts and Contexts.
- April 28 – Figurative Language in Music: “Killing Me Softly” by the Fugees
- Get the teaching resources.
- April 29 – Acrostic Poems
- April 30 – Slam Poetry