April is National Poetry Month

Now that National Poetry Month is underway, it's a great time to focus classroom activities on reading and analyzing poetry.
"Anthologizing Transformation: Breaking Down Students' 'Private Theories' about Poetry" Challenge students to look through a handful of poetry collections or anthologies, seeking 20 poems they like and thus understand or want to understand to some extent with the ideas outlined in this Teaching English in the Two-Year College article.
"The Free Verse Spectrum" Articulate the diversity of free verse by pairing poems that demonstrate the range of poetic expression that free verse encompasses with the strategies explored in this College English article. For more ideas for teaching poetry, see the Poetry Teaching Resource Collection, which includes links to additional articles, lesson plans, and other resources.
Source: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)