Poetry Sub Plans, Grades 6-8: 6 No-Prep Days of Poetry & Figurative Language

Six days of poetry for a substitute, and every day is a complete, no-prep lesson. Students hunt for figures of speech in a poem about basketball tryouts, compare two rainy bus stop poems to tell tone from mood, read Tennyson's "The Brook" aloud to find its sound devices, track down the stories behind the allusions in a school newspaper, match six short poems to their forms, and put Rossetti's "Up-Hill" through five questions.

What's inside

• Day 1, Figurative Language: Device Hunt
• Day 2, Tone and Mood: Same Scene, Two Moods
• Day 3, Sound Devices: Read-Aloud Lab
• Day 4, Allusion: Where Did That Phrase Come From?
• Day 5, Poetry Forms: Form Match-Up
• Day 6, Poetry Analysis: One Poem, Five Questions
• Each day: a Sub Plan, a Poem or News Page, a 2-page Student Packet and an Answer Key

Answer key included

Print only: no slides, no tech, no scissors.

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