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Lesson Plans about Family

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The following lesson plans feature poems poems exploring many different kinds of family relationships.

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Teach This Poem: “Our House” by Sophie Cabot Black

Teach This Poem: "Knoxville, Tennessee" by Nikki Giovanni

Teach This Poem: "When Giving Is All We Have" by Alberto Ríos

Teach This Poem: "We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born" by Oscar Gonzales

Incredible Bridges: "Remember" by Joy Harjo

Thanksgiving with Richard Blanco’s “América”

Teach This Poem: "Afternoons/Tardes" by Jorge H. Aigla

Teach This Poem: “Of the Threads that Connect the Stars” by Martín Espada

Teach This Poem: ”Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother’s Couch“ by Joshua Bennett

Teach This Poem: “Tending” by Elizabeth Alexander

Teach This Poem: "A House Called Tomorrow" by Alberto Ríos

Teach This Poem: "Before Your Arrival" by Ellen Hagan

Teach This Poem: "The Sky Over My Mother’s House" by Jaime Manrique

Teach This Poem: "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party" by Chen Chen

Teach This Poem: "Shoulders" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Teach This Poem: “My Mother’s Name Lucha” by Juan Felipe Herrera

Teach This Poem: “Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Teach This Poem: "Sherbet" by Cornelius Eady

Teach This Poem: “I Ask My Mother to Sing” by Li-Young Lee

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