Love this! And love seeing the Utah State flag on your wall — my Alma mater!! 🥹

I’m leaning hard into literary theory this year with my juniors and I am so excited! It feels so much more cohesive than how I was planning before. Excited to see how it goes for you as well!

I wonder if you could add some rhetorical analysis into the poetry unit? I would hate to see that unit be cut. Poetry is magic.

Would you be willing to share your assignment directions for the documentary assignment? would be so helpful for my comp class.

I’ve been doing a version of this with my students (thanks for the inspo!) and their projects are incredible. 😭 It’s so cool to see what they come up with.

The poem counting descent by Clint smith would be perfect for this!

Love this idea!! I’ve been slowly bringing literary theory into my classroom and it’s been awesome (and intimidating). What does the essay look like? Can they choose a topic?

Oh my gosh this is too real. 😅

I love this book so much. I think about Benji all the time 🥹😂 if you haven’t already read it, Backman’s Anxious People is also amazing!!

Your podcast project asking if poetry is not a luxury, what is it? I love that framing.

This looks like an amazing class 😍 The poetry collections you chose are incredible.

Is there any way you could send me the resources too? I’m in the same boat — brand new to teaching research 😅

Students read “Monuments to the Unthinkable” by Clint Smith. They whined about it being 30 pages, but ultimately had the best conversations and really grappled with the nuances. Their final project was a podcast discussing rhetorical choices, and they smashed it!

This is brilliant!!

I’m not sure if this fits exactly what you’re looking for but Everything Sad is Untrue has a very stream of consciousness feeling for me.

Survivor challenge music is a golden teacher move 👏🏻

I felt the same way 😫

I love that and I need to know the titles! I’m always looking for new poetry collections.