Reading the weekly update from Discovery Education (United Streaming), I noticed that today is Black Poetry Day. Sign into United Streaming and download the video:
Poetry Matters” in Careers in Language Arts — Grades 6–12
check out the pictures of poets:
Countee Cullen
Isabel Allende
Walt Whitman
Phillis Wheatley
James Weldon Johnson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Anne Sexton
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Emily Dickinson
Carlos Fuentes
Amiri Baraka
Rita Dove
Derek Walcott
Then use the classroom activities at Read, Write and Think. http://www.readwritethink.org/CALENDAR/calendar_day.asp?id=310
Celebrating this contribution to the world can be done at any time.
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