Poetry Cafe

Imagine you are in a cafe, sipping a soothing beverage, in preparation for a presentation of one of the following poems: "Combing" by Gladys Cardiff, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, "Harlem" by Langston Hughes, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "Scars" by Daniel Halpern, "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, or "American Hero" by Essex Hemphill.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni

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