American sonnets with Terrance Hayes #TeachLivingPoets
Make sure to check out #TeachLivingPoets. The website has lots of great resources. teachlivingpoets.com
🔥Burn up 2025🔥with this #teachlivingpoets lesson by Jessica Salfia
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@melaltersmith.bsky.social and #TeachLivingPoets helped me realize how collaborative, insightful, and meaningful poetry can be in EVERY classroom. So grateful for the lesson ideas, guidance, and those fleeting Twitter chats! This post reminded me of that work, and has some great poetry linked!
My ride or die @jessycamathews.bsky.social teaches this course in Flint. I would rec everything on #teachlivingpoets website for modern AP level poetry lessons. The upper class kids tend to love Nubia.
Currently . . . #booksky #teachlivingpoets
Some poetry reading this morning- Melania Luisa Marte asks "how to lavishly laugh" and I really felt that. #TeachLivingPoets
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Thank you! 💕
Does anyone have the text for PorshaOlayiwola's tribute poem, "Sestina", featured on #TeachLivingPoets site? If anyone could help, we would appreciate it. @melaltersmith.bsky.social
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Getting ready to start the journey that is #NBE3U with my students this week and definitely feeling the power of "i am graffiti" to begin anew.
It somehow hits different in today's context.
#TRCCallstoAction
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#PoetryinVoiceCanada
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#TeachLivingPoets has a great lesson for it
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"When I think of loving-kindness as an offering that spirals outward, I think that poems can do that too."
Ada Limon #teachlivingpoets #powerofpoetry #poetrylovers
New #teachlivingpoets lesson up for teaching Amanda Gorman’s poem inspired by the Wicked movie! Check it out: teachlivingpoets.com/2024/12/01/d...
It’s Presentation Time, #NCTE Crew!
I have two sessions today. The first one with THE Tricia Ebarvia will start at 11 EST in room 156A.
You can also catch me doing my protest music lesson later today with #TeachLivingPoets with superstar Melissa Alter Smith!
Come thru for growth & to say hey ✊🏾🤎
Tomorrow! #TeachLivingPoets #NCTE24 @jessycamathews.bsky.social @joelrgarza.bsky.social & Cleveland Winfield
A4: I have colleagues who are also very close friends. I know I can count on them.
Online communities that "fill my cup": #THEBOOKCHAT, #DisruptTexts, @sheathescholar.bsky.social & Jess Lifshitz's Rainbow Summer, #TeachLivingPoets, and Lorena & Roberto German's Multicultural Classroom #theedcollab
Just here to say hey to #DisruptTexts #CleartheAir #TeachLivingPoets & #THEBOOKCHAT. It’s good to be reunited or to meet you if you’re new to me!
Things I adore:
1. Flint, MI.
2. Literacy edu.
3. Disrupting white supremacy
4. Survivor
5. Tacos
Free Palestine! Free Congo! Free Sudan! Free Haiti!
Where are my fellow #teachlivingpoets people here?
For all of you that #TeachLivingPoets, check out this dang TikTok that @hanvanderhart.bsky.social made for my students, explaining the function, tradition, complexity, & impact of volta & disjunction in the way that only they can! 🥹🫶🏽🤔
Follow them & buy their books!
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Screenshot of a poetry unit choice board with 6 options for students to select- 1. Bloom ball, 2. Personal Response, 3. Music Commentary, 4. Poetry, 5. Historic Photo Essay, or 6. Propose your own
Made it to my favorite part of the unit. The seniors crushed their unit exam essays, so I'm excited for this choice board. For clarity, we read When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez. #TeachLivingPoets
Imagine Julie Andrews singing “My Favorite Things” 🎶 #TeachLivingPoets
#Teachlivingpoets is on Blue Sky!
Am Lit's TEWWG project is a 10-song playlist studying Janie's characterization. Ultimately, they have to write a letter to Janie using their playlist to introduce what her character teaches them about America. Here's the beginning of my playlist.
SOLANGE ofc. #TeachLivingPoets
Here's the unit I built and am working through with my students. It is how I'm teaching through grief and how I'm asking students to meet me in this moment. First, we read and annotated Lorde's "Poetry is not a Luxury." #TeachLivingPoets #APLit...
In 2020 #THEBOOKCHAT & #TeachLivingPoets led a chat on Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s collection Water & Salt
For those seeking a voice telling a story grounded in Palestine, you'll find a brave & complex personal & political guide in LKT's poems
Teaching resources here👊🏽
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Excited for this NCTE presentation I’ve been invited to: me, my #TeachLivingPoets friend Melissa Alter Smith, & my brother in #THEBOOKCHAT Scott Bayer, all celebrating the certified genius of Hanif Abdurraqib
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