Poetry Out Loud In Your Classroom
Poetry Out Loud has been created to be a perfect complement for ELA curriculums. In fact, you might find that POL is just the pick-me-up your poetry unit needed. If you're looking for something new to change up your poetry lessons, you can help yourself to the many writing activities and lesson plans for teachers on the POL website. Click here to browse lesson plans.
My favorite lesson plan.
Name-Dropping: Poems and the Power of Connotation
NCTE standards: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 12
Mention a famous person—an artist, a musician, a political figure—and a host of associations will come to mind. Poems that “name-drop”—whether by talking about a famous figure, or by talking to him or her—thus rely on the power of allusion and connotation. The poets who write them bet that you, the reader, will bring enough background knowledge to the poem to recognize the person who is named, and enough relevant associations with that name to make its presence meaningful, powerful, memorable, or surprising.
This lesson plan will teach your students how to talk about the use of historical figures in poems, and invite them to write poems that “name-drop” in resonant, open-ended, and intriguing ways.
Indiana Poetry Out Loud Timeline
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August – November: Sign up to participate
- November 19, 2021: Deadline for school/host sign up
- September - February: Coach your students & host school competitions
- February 17, 2022: School Winner Videos Due to State
- March 9, 2021: Indiana Poetry Out Loud State Finals (virtual)
- April 25-27, 2021: National Poetry Out Loud Finals
If you or your students have any questions about Poetry Out Loud, please reach out. I'm here to help!
Best wishes,
Stephanie Haines
Arts Education and Accessibility Manager
Indiana Arts Commission
shaines@iac.in.gov
(317) 450 9973
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