Less than $5 9th Grade Poetry Activities (by date, oldest first)

Set of 4 coloring bookmarks with the quote from the poem by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" to be used as low prep activity, gifts, early finishers, additions to sub plans, and more.

Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom, library, or at a book club:

• Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.
• End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.
• Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.
• Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.
• Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.
• Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

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• Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.
• Addition to subplans and for early finishers.
• Add to cards and letters.
• Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.
• Coloring during read-at-loud times.
• Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

Files include: 1 Pdf US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”. Four different bookmarks in two sizes: large bookmarks measure about 8." by 2.4",

and smaller set 7" by 2"

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Set of 4 coloring bookmarks with the quote from the poem by Emily Dickinson "Hope" is the thing with feathers to be used as low prep activity, gifts, early finishers, student rewards, additions to sub plans, and more.

Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom, library, or at a book club:

• Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.
• End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.
• Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.
• Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.
• Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.
• Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

Check out my other novel-related bookmarks

• Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.
• Addition to subplans and for early finishers.
• Add to cards and letters.
• Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.
• Coloring during read-at-loud times.
• Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

Files include: 1 Pdf US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”. Four different bookmarks in two sizes: large bookmarks measure about 8." by 2.4",

and smaller set 7" by 2"

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Set of 4 coloring bookmarks with the Poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost to be used as low prep gifts, early finishers, additions to sub plans, and more.

Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom, library, or at a book club:

1. Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.

2. End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.

3. Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.

4. Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.

5. Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.

6. Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

Check out my other novel-related bookmarks

7. Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.

8. As an addition to subplans and for early finishers.

9. Add to cards and letters.

10. Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.

11. Coloring during read-at-loud times.

12. Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

Files include: 1 Pdf US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”. Four different bookmarks in two sizes: large bookmarks measure about 8." by 2.4",

and smaller set 7" by 2"

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Set of 4 different coloring bookmarks with quotes by Edgar Allan Poe from The Raven to be used as gifts, early finishers, addition to sub plans, and more.

Using coloring bookmarks with quotes and illustrations can be a wonderful way to engage readers and explore the themes and characters of the story. Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom, library, or at a book club:

1. Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.

2. End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.

3. Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.

4. Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.

5. Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.

6. Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

Check out my other novel-related bookmarks

7. Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.

8. As an addition to subplans and for early finishers.

9. Add to cards and letters.

10. Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.

11. Coloring during read-at-loud times.

12. Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

Files include: 1 Pdf US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”. Four different bookmarks in two sizes: large bookmarks measure about 8." by 2.4",

and smaller set 7" by 2"

SIMILAR COLORING ITEMS YOU MIGHT LIKE

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For personal use by one teacher only, please do not resell or share this file.

Set of 4 different coloring bookmarks with quotes by William Shakespeare from Hamlet with antique book Illustrations for student rewards, early finishers, additions to sub plans, relaxing time, gifts, and more.

Using coloring bookmarks with quotes and illustrations can be a wonderful way to engage readers and explore the themes and characters of the play. Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom or at a book club:

• Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions. Hand out different bookmarks and ask them to share their thoughts and insights related to the quote or illustration on their bookmark.
• Emotional Response: Have participants color the bookmarks while discussing their emotional responses to the play.
• Use bookmarks as student or book club member rewards/gifts.
• Attach a bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.
• Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading. It's a thoughtful and personalized gift that can foster a love for literature.
• Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.
• Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.
• As an addition to subplans and for early finishers.
• Add to cards and letters.
• Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.
• Coloring during read-at-loud times.
• Bulletin board décor and more

For best results print them on thick white cardstock paper.

Files include:

1 Pdf with 4 different bookmarks in two sizes.

The large bookmark measures about 8" by 2.4",

and smaller size set is 7" by 2".

US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”.

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Getting students excited about poetry and figurative language can be difficult. I find that putting it into terms of music often with popular songs makes the process more enjoyable for them and myself. This product contains a powerpoint with links to videos, worksheets which examine both figurative language and poetry, and most of is an interactive lesson that will have your students singing while they're learning.

Ring in the new year with this NO PREP acrostic poem goal writing activity! Students can choose their favorite words and write their own acrostic poem on the printable template while spelling out the words HAPPY NEW YEAR. Enjoy as morning work, center activity, brain break, or for your New Year's Party!

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Directions:

• Print the template in color or black and white
• students write a word or phrase to describe what they hope the new year will bring for them or what goals they have for the new year
• In an acrostic poem, each line starts with a capital letter that spells out the poem's theme vertically
• Acrostic poems don't need to rhyme, but all the other poetic devices like alliteration, similes, and rhythm are often used to create an effect on the reader

What's included?

• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Color
• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Black and White

New Year's Resources

Writing Resources

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Sandra Cisneros' "Abuelito Who" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem for theme, characterization, tone, mood, diction, imagery, and figurative language. This poem works well paired with Cisneros' other works, coming of age stories, or texts that deal with themes of family, love, and loss.

This foldable includes an answer key! Please ask if you have any questions!

This worksheet will help your students understand and analyze Cyrus Cassells' poem Juliek's Violin. The 12 questions are "chunked" stanza-by-stanza and analyze the poet's use of syntax, diction, theme, characterization, figurative language, setting, and symbolism. You can assign it digitally or print it out. I've also included an answer key for your convenience.

I always incorporate this poem after reading chapter 6 of Elie Wiesel's Night during our study of humanity during The Holocaust. It's a great way to incorporate poetry analysis into the novel study unit. Please let me know if you have any questions!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze the poetic elements in Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the song lyrics for theme, symbolism, characterization, allusion, format, simile, and metaphor.

This foldable includes an answer key! Please ask if you have any questions!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Jeffrey McDaniel's incredible Science Fiction poem "The Quiet World" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's tone, diction, theme, irony, protagonist, and setting. An answer key is included for your convenience!

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

I have 100+ Foldable Poetry Analysis Activities in my store; please check them all out here! If you don't see what you're looking for, send me a message and I'll create it for you!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Oscar Wilde's "Requiescat" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's format, tone, diction, theme, rhyme scheme, and characterization. An answer key is included for your convenience!

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

This worksheet will help your students understand and analyze Billy Collins' poem Snow Day! The 9 questions are "chunked" stanza-by-stanza and analyze Collins' use of imagery, diction, syntax, theme, description, characterization, and author's purpose. Please let me know if you have any questions!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Elie Wiesel's "Never Shall I Forget" from Night chapter three by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's tone, diction, figurative language, repetition, theme, author's purpose, symbolism, alliteration, and format. An answer key is included for your convenience!

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

This is an interactive partner or small group activity that will have students up and moving throughout the room in order to answer 15 questions about poetic devices in 15 different modern and classic LOVE POEMS!

The product contains 15 multiple questions that have 4 answer choices. You will hang these signs around your classroom. Based on their answer, the students will be directed to another question. If the students make a mistake, they have to retrace their footsteps and find the question(s) they answered incorrectly. Each group/ pair will start at a different question, and the kids will "follow the trail" of questions throughout your room.

Poetic devices and techniques that are analyzed in the questions include: tone, figurative language, diction, syntax, rhyme, characterization, gist, author's purpose, paradox, enjambment, repetition, and anaphora.

Questions are asked about excerpts from the following poems:

Sara Teasdale's "I Am Not Yours"

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Love's Philosophy"

Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

Sonia Sanchez's Haiku [for you]”

Nikki Giovanni's "Love Is"

Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose"

E.E. Cummings' "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]"

Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"

Pablo Neruda's “Don’t Go Far Off, Not Even For A Day”

Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

Judith Viorst's "True Love"

Luís Vaz De Camões' “Love is a fire that burns unseen”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”

Also included is an answer sheet for students to record their answers as well as an answer key for the teacher.

Please view the attached video that explains how to use my line of Question Trails for Literary Analysis!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's mood, tone, diction, figurative language, and repetition. An answer key is included for your convenience!

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

This Google Doc is ready-to-go to help your students analyze Wilfred Owen's "Disabled"! You can print it or post it to Google Classsroom!

This product is a 3-columned chart. On the left, you'll find the full text of the poem broken down by stanza. The middle column has poetry analysis questions. The right gives students a place to answer each question.

The 14 questions address diction, imagery, figurative language, characterization, theme, tone, symbolism, foreshadowing, and plot.

I've included a suggested answer key for your convenience at the bottom of the doc.

Please view my video on how to use my line of foldable poetry analysis activities!

A suggested answer key is included!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Gwen Harwood's "In the Park" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's characterization, setting, diction, authors’ purpose, poetic format, tone, and theme.

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's use of characterization, diction, tone, imagery, and figurative language. I've included a suggested answer key for your convenience.

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework.

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's tone, theme, diction, allusion, and characterization. I've included a suggested answer key for your convenience.

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.