Poetry

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• 100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Materials

Common Materials

• journal

Lesson 1

• green and red colored pencils or yellow and orange highlighters
• timer

Lesson 2

• colored pencils
• colored pencils or highlighters (optional)
• colored pencils or markers

Lesson 7

• colored pencils or 3 highlighters

Lesson 8

• pencil

Lesson 9

• dictionary (optional)

Final Project

• materials will vary based on students' final project choices

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used