Poetry

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States by Lee Bennett Hopkins
• R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young
• Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
• Handy Guide to Writing by Beyond the Page

Materials

Common Materials

• journal
• colored pencils

Lesson 1

• thesaurus

Lesson 2

• colored pencils or watercolor paints and paintbrush

Lesson 3

• blank paper

Lesson 6

• paints or pastels

Lesson 7

• "Timeline of American History"* (7.2 - optional)

Lesson 8

• a variety of catalogs and magazines
• glue
• scissors

Lesson 9

• a variety of poetry books

Final Project

• food and beverages for the performance
• printer
• the poems you have written and/or memorized for this unit
• word-processing software

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used