Poetry + Grammar = Love
A free mini-unit map to wrap up National Poetry Month + learn a little grammar.
You know those weeks where you’re between units + just need to kill some time in a meaningful way? That’s my week this week, so we are celebrating the end of National Poetry Month by creating blackout poems and then revising them with some key grammar skills.
Here’s the unit map:
Did you know that each month I share a complete unit here — with mini-lessons you can use yourself, rationale, and narrative of the unit? Paid community members also receive access to our complete archives!
The May newsletter, unit, and Q&A will start coming to inboxes next weekend! What would you like to learn more about? I’d love to hear what would be helpful to you as we round the corner on this strange, long school year! Leave a comment to make a suggestion!
I would love to see (eventually) the different ways you start the school year. I am teaching a new grade next year - seventh - and have no idea how to start. I also would love to see more of your specific story element lessons and or how you orchestrate literature circles where each group possibly has a different book around a concentrated class theme.
This newsletter & group has been such a rich source of ideas! It's that time of year when I'm starting to dream about next year (too soon? probably...). And with the hope of a more normal school year ahead, I'd love to crowd-source some more ideas for big-picture year planning. This was my first year teaching freshmen, and I was able to deep dive on a few units, and I know I'll be able to cover more next year, but, as you say, I can't cover everything. So prioritizing & sequencing & maybe bouncing ideas back & forth in the Facebook group with others.