New Lesson Plans and Summer Reading Suggestions

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 2016 Get Ready for Summer   In this last Educator Newsletter of the school year, we head into summer by a list of new poetry collections for summer reading and two new lesson plans to consider for the fall. We’ll return with a new newsletter as the school year begins!

Incredible Bridges: Featuring Minnie Bruce Pratt   This new lesson plan includes audio of Minnie Bruce Pratt reading her poem “The Great Migration,” and demonstrates how migrations within—and to and from—the United States, and their consequences, are a part of our common heritage. It’s part of the monthly series Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community, a project we developed in partnership with EDSITEment, the educational website of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).  Summer Reading   Looking to catch up on your poetry reading this summer? Take a look at Books Noted, a roundup of reviews by acclaimed literary critic Stephen Burt, featuring twelve new poetry books, including a recently discovered collection of Pablo Neruda’s poems, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda. Read more. Dear Poet Project   Thank you to all of the classrooms who participated in this year’s Dear Poet Project during National Poetry Month—we received over 1,300 letters! Take a look at some of the outstanding letters we received, along with correspondences between students and poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors. Lesson Plan: On Marilyn Nelson's Poem “1905”   Earlier this year, we published a lesson plan on Marilyn Nelson’s book My Seneca Village. Here is a new lesson plan on Nelson’s poem “1905,” from her book Carver: A Life in Poems, which explores the life of George Washington Carver. This lesson was created by our Educator in Residence, Madeleine Fuchs Holzer, in collaboration with teachers from New Visions for Public Schools and the New York City Department of Education. Lesson Plan: On Marilyn Nelson’s My Seneca Village. Browse classic books of American poetry. Read poems for graduation. Teach This Poem   This summer, we’ll be sending curated anthologies of poems every other Monday. Sign up for Teach This Poem to receive them. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038