Poets and Poetry Notebooking Unit Study for Middle or High School

Teach your middle and high school students all about the styles of poetry & the biographies of over 30 famous poets with this Poetry Notebooking Style Unit Study

This Poetry Notebooking Unit Study includes poetry worksheets to learn about ten different types of poems and guides your student through writing their own poems in each of the styles.

This bundle also includes biography style notebooking pages for over thirty different famous poets.

There are also pages for poetry copywork, poetry analysis, and a blank poet biography page in the poetry printable pack that could also be used as a part of a high school language arts credit.

For your upper elementary students, use this multi-subject poetry lapbook instead.

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How to use the Poets and Poetry Notebooking Unit Pages:

• Print out the pages you will need (see options below) and staple together or put in a folder.
• On the title page, have your student write their name.
• Follow the directions on each poetry style writing page.  Each poetry style page describes a type of poetry and guides the student through writing their own poem in that style. 
• Have your student research each of the poets for which there is a biography page to answer the questions. Questions cover the poets birth and death dates, where they were born, what style of poetry they used, how their poetry makes you feel, and more.
• Have your student read at least 2 poems written by each poet.

Recommended Resources for your Poetry Unit Study

Poetry, as with any literature, may contain themes you do not wish for your child to read.  Please review all poetry first if you have concerns.

Grab some of these poetry collection books as well as biographies of some of the poets from Amazon or from the library.  *Highly recommended

Poetry Collections

Classic Poems to Read Aloud by James Berry *

Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris *

Favorite Poems of Childhood (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics) by Phillip Smith (editor)

Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies by Julie Andrews Edwards

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel *

Understanding Poetry

What Is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Michael Rosen (the author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt)

Specific Poets

The Poetry for Kids series: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Walt Whitman

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Where the Sidewalk Ends Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein

You can also find many poems online.

Poetry Concepts covered in this Notebooking Unit Study

• Acrostic Poems
• Clerihew Poetry
• Poetry Couplets
• Haiku
• Limerick Poetry
• Parody Poems
• Quatrain Poetry
• Tercet Poetry
• Tongue Twisters
• Two and Three Word Poems

Poets covered in this Poetry Notebooking Unit Study

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Charlotte Bronte
• Christina Rossetti
• Dante Alighieri
• E.E. Cummings
• Du Fu
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Emily Dickinson
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Homer
• Jalal al-Din Rumi
• John Keats
• John Milton
• Li Bai
• Lord Byron (George Gordon)
• Maya Angelou
• Nikos Kazantzakis
• Pablo Neruda
• Percy Shelley
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Burns
• Robert Frost
• Saadi Shirazi
• Shel Silverstein
• Thomas Hardy
• T.S. Eliot
• Walt Whitman
• William Blake
• William Butner Yeats
• William Shakespeare

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