Teach : Adults/University
Welcome! We're excited to share lesson plans created BY teachers FOR teachers using our broadsides -- from primary school to adult community center to university and beyond.
Adults/University, Grades 6-8, Grades 9 - 12
Poetry-Based Collage
Students will create original collages using broadsides for inspiration.
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Synesthetic Writing
This lesson allows students to break down the usual barriers between visual technique and poetic technique in an exciting act of live translation.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Workshop: Intro to Ekphrasis Poetry
This lesson has students explore ekphrasis as a theory and practice. They create their own ekphrases using the Issue 20.1 portfolio.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Muse to Muse
This lesson plan uses the Broadsided Portfolio to generate original writing and art mimicking broadside processes.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Essaying—from Broadsides to Flash
This lesson teaches students to generate flash creative nonfiction using a portfolio of broadsides,
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Translating the Image into Poetry
This lesson gives students ways to translate images into poetry.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 6-8, Grades 9 - 12
Exploring the Overlap in Visuals and Poetics
This lesson helps students conceive of original visual art pieces based on a poem.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Versioning & Poetic Choices: Playing with the Stereoscope
This lesson helps students understand the import of artistic choices in poems, even small ones.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Threading a Poem (Literally and Figuratively)
This is a generative lesson that helps writers develop fresh image pools and vocabulary through manipulating poetic threads.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 9 - 12
Context Across Time
This is a generative lesson that helps guide writers through using an external/national/global event from their past to inform both their past and present understandings of their world.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 6-8, Grades 9 - 12, Incarcerated Students
Use the Broadsided Anthology
Inspiration for teachers of art, creative writing, and more in this beautiful collection of broadsides, interviews, and on-the-street photos. Discounts for educators.
Read MoreAdults/University, Incarcerated Students
What Have You Swallowed?
An essay/lesson plan exploring the spirit of broadsides and the possibilities they can open for students in prisons and jails, as well as university students responding to such poems.
Read MoreAdults/University, Grades 1 - 5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9 - 12
Make a “Lit Wall”
Make your own “Lit Wall” of broadsides using plywood and wheat paste. Step by step instructions and inspirational images!
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Broadsides as Adventure and Architecture
An essay exploring the spirit of broadsides and the possibilities they can open for students by poet Michael McGriff.
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Graduate Poetry Workshop–4 Weeks on Ekphrasis
An excerpt from Maureen Seaton’s graduate workshop focusing on ekphrasis.
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