Today's Classroom Activities :

Poetic Geography

Poetic Geography
Language/Geography Share Got Geography! edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Greenwillow, 2006) and ask your student to find the places depicted in the poems on the classroom map or globe. Then challenge the children to write a poem about a particular place in the world, like the equator or a mountain. Perhaps, they would rather write a poem pretending that they are seeing a natural marvel for the first time.

A Poetry Workshop in Print contains articles by Lee Bennet Hopkins a distinguished poet and anthologist who writes articles highlighting different poets and their works.