This "Teacher's Corner" post by Rebecca Newland explores ideas for using National Book Festival videos in the classroom as a way to introduce students to contemporary poets and authors.
The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress. In 2015, in one of my earliest Teacher’s Corner posts, I wrote about short poetry activities to use at the beginning of class, also sometimes …
Former Library of Congress Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland offers a lesson plan for teaching Amanda Gorman’s 2021 presidential inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.”