Poets "J"
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Students identify rhyming and nonrhyming words, analyze for character and setting. Includes artwork, assessment. Designed for kindergarten.

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell
Lesson plans and teaching resources for the poem and for companion pieces.

Robinson Jeffers
Lesson plans and teaching materials.

Text of the poem.

How might students use storyboards to demonstrate and to extend their learning? Check the resources here. Students work with vocabulary, structure, symbols, more. Note: Storyboard That helps sponsor this site.

Links to texts of 5 poems.

E-texts, biography, bibliography, links to related sites.

Ben Jonson
Links to biography and poems.

In this lesson students will be invited to reflect on a variety of colors and the pleasurable things that those colors invoke. They then will write a poem about someone they love following Barbara Joosse's style in I Love You the Purplest .