Best Poems For High School Students - April 2024

Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, and other skills for reading fiction and nonfiction; and writing arguments, informative texts, and narratives. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0761160914
• ASIN: 0761160914
• ISBN: 0761160914
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition)

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory―and pain―of being Latino American.Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250016789
• ASIN: 1250016789
• ISBN: 1250016789
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing. Each mentor text includes "Try this" suggestions for inviting students to get started. You'll also find "Interludes" woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325098123
• ASIN: 0325098123
• ISBN: 0325098123
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Seuss-isms! A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out...and Those Already on Their Way

A New York Times bestseller, this collection of quotes from Dr. Seuss makes a perfect gift for graduation! The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. With over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and many more, this humorous and inspiring collection is, indeed, perfect for those just starting out . . . or those who are already on their way!

• ASIN: 0553508415
• ASIN: 0553508415
• ISBN: 0553508415
• Brand: Random House Kids
• Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains: More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage. Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others. Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve student... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1575251558
• ASIN: 1575251558
• ISBN: 1575251558
• Brand: Brand: Smith Kraus
• Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Techn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804189935
• ASIN: 0804189935
• ISBN: 0804189935
• Brand: THREE RIVERS
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero

A collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold. A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age“Profound.” —Booklist“Moving.” —Publishers Weekly “Rings with authenticity and resonates with power.” —School Library JournalTuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center.The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. But within a few hours on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060517182
• ASIN: 0060517182
• ISBN: 0060517182
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Odyssey

• ASIN: 0140268863
• ASIN: 0140268863
• ISBN: 9780140268867
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Poems from Homeroom

A collection of original poems and creative writing exercises that will inspire teens to write about their own lives."Since the very beginnings of the human race, we've been gathering in circles and telling stories because beyond the physical needs for food, water, clean air, and security, one of our most basic yearnings is to express ourselves, to share what we know, what we dream, what we imagine, and what we feel."Experienced poet and teacher Kathi Appelt has written a wonderful collection of poems for young adult readers, accompanied by fascinating accounts of how and why the poems came to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0805075968
• ASIN: 0805075968
• ISBN: 0805075968
• Brand: Brand: Owlet Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Owlet Paperbacks

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & ... Composition, Class Notes, Diary Writing, etc

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled JournalNotepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & University Learners & in Primary or Adult Education: Lined Book for Composition, Class Notes, Diary Writing, etc 6 x 9 • Ideal design for journalling or noting: This college-ruled blank lined notebook is perfect for jotting down ideas, writing things to remember like birthdays, composing, drawing or even doodling.• All lines in the notebook are dark grey, instead of black, so they are less distracting.• Functional size: 6 x 9 in (15.2 x 22.9 cm) dime... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1794331433
• ASIN: 1794331433
• ISBN: 1794331433
• Manufacturer: Independently published

The Poet X

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062662805
• ASIN: 0062662805
• ISBN: 0062662805
• Manufacturer: HarperTeen

Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems

The Tower High Tigers basketball team is on top of the world and bringing the crowds to their feet in this collection of free prose poems that make up the absorbing story of a championship teams season. Meet Garrett James, the star of the team; Darnell Joyce, the lovable forward with no place to live; and the rest of the players, their families, coach, friends and girlfriends, teachers, and fans.

• ASIN: 052567554X
• ASIN: 052567554X
• ISBN: 052567554X
• Manufacturer: Dutton Books for Young Readers

Sight Word Poetry Pages: 100 Fill-in-the-Blank Practice Pages That Help Kids Really Learn the Top High-Frequency Words

Children will develop word recognition skills, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with these ready-to-go pages. Each page gives kids repeated opportunities to spell, write, and read a sight word while completing a fun poem! Poems feature predictable, rhyming text and tie in with popular themes such as weather, seasons, all about me, and more. For use with Grades PreK-2.

• ASIN: 0439554381
• UPC: 078073554386
• ASIN: 0439554381
• ISBN: 0439554381
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Teaching Resources

Green Eggs and Ham

• ASIN: 0394800168
• UPC: 033500318412
• ASIN: 0394800168
• ISBN: 0545002850
• Brand: Ingram Book & Distributor
• Manufacturer: Beginner Books/Random House

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.   Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345514408
• ASIN: 0345514408
• ISBN: 0345514408
• Brand: Maya Angelou
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Melting Box of Crayons : True Stories and Poems by Urban High School Students

Teen writers pour into these pages their fears, desires, loves, losses, and triumphs. They share in their essays, poems, memoirs, and personal narratives what it is like to grow up in a diverse urban

• UPC: 10995469

My Best Career Advice to My High School Student

My Best Career Advice to My High School

• UPC: 53580386

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Designs for G

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Designs for

• UPC: 680766323

Funny Gift Dot Grid Notebook for Elementary, High School, College or University: Best Student You Are: Dotted Journal Paper: Bullet Style Notepad Plan

Funny Gift Dot Grid Notebook for Elementary, High School, College or University: Best Student You Are: Dotted Journal Paper: Bullet Style Notepad

• UPC: 964540885

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Animal Design

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Animal

• UPC: 234815670

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Design

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique

• UPC: 463369582

Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Designs Kids Elephant

Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Designs Kids

• UPC: 328469073

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & Universi

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade &

• UPC: 706774337

Unicorn Teacher: High School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper Mag Paperback

Unicorn Teacher: High School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper Mag Height : 0.23 In Length : 11.00 In Width : 8.50 In Weight : 0.61

• UPC: 930436791

Unicorn Teacher: High School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper Mag Paperback

Unicorn Teacher: High School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper Mag Height : 0.23 In Length : 9.00 In Width : 6.00 In Weight : 0.35

• UPC: 835624280