Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
Explore how Hughes connects Black identity, ancestral memory, ancient civilizations, endurance, and dignity through the imagery of rivers. The complete poem is included at the beginning of the student packet.
ELA close reading meets geography, history, river science, and mathematical reasoning. Students distinguish symbolic meaning from historical evidence and support their interpretations with specific details.
Included in the educator package
- student PDF with the complete poem and fillable response fields
- Separate 6 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key, and exemplar
- Five days of Do Nows and Quick Writes
- River reference map with compass rose, legend, and scale
- 15 assessment questions and a final RACE response with a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment with differentiated grade band tasks
- Teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide for objective scoring after teacher setup
Preview the poem and sample pages
Print the student PDF or type into its response fields using a compatible PDF viewer. Teachers set up the included Google Forms answer sheet in their own account. Written responses and RACE are teacher scored.
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Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
Incident
Countee Cullen
Analyze how a brief encounter with racial prejudice overshadows a much longer memory. Students investigate voice, contrast, rhyme, irony, and the ending through ELA, Baltimore geography, history, science, and mathematics.
The complete poem appears on page 1 of the student packet. Teacher guidance supports respectful discussion of the poem’s original language.
Included in the educator package
- student PDF with the complete poem and fillable response fields
- Separate 6 page teacher guide, lesson plans, answer key, and exemplar
- Five days of Do Nows and Quick Writes
- Baltimore regional locator map with compass rose, legend, and scale
- Science modeling and mathematics tasks with clear evidence limits
- 15 assessment questions and a final RACE response with a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment and differentiated grade band tasks
- Teacher Google Forms quiz builder and setup guide
Preview the poem and sample pages
Students can type responses in a compatible PDF viewer, save their work, and submit the saved PDF through Google Classroom. Teachers create and review the included Forms quiz in their own Google account before assigning. Objective questions are automatically scored after setup. Written responses and RACE remain teacher-scored.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
If We Must Die
Claude McKay
Explore human dignity, solidarity, and resistance to dehumanization through McKay’s sonnet and the historical context of the Red Summer of 1919. The complete poem appears on page 1 of the student packet.
Connect close reading with history, geography, wave science, and mathematics. Analyze imagery, collective voice, the sonnet’s argument, and the difference between rhetorical numbers and verified evidence.
Included in the educator package
- student PDF with the complete poem and fillable response fields
- Separate 6 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key, and exemplar
- Five days of Do Nows and Quick Writes
- 1919 context locator map with compass rose, legend, and scale
- Science models, mathematical reasoning, and clear evidence limits
- 15 assessment questions and final RACE response with a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment and differentiated grade band tasks
- Teacher Google Forms quiz builder and setup guide
Preview the poem and sample pages
Students type in a compatible PDF viewer, save their work, and submit their saved PDF through Google Classroom. Teachers create and review the included Google Forms answer sheet in their own account before assigning. Objective items are automatically scored after setup. Writing and RACE remain teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
November Cotton Flower
Jean Toomer
How does a damaged landscape make the final image of fearless love more powerful?
Read the complete poem, analyze language and theme, and connect evidence across ELA, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning.
Included in the educator package
- 10 page printable and fillable student PDF with the complete poem
- Separate 5 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key and exemplar
- Daily Do Nows, collaborative inquiry and Quick Writes
- 15 assessment questions, ending with a final RACE response and a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment for grades 6–12
- Private teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide
Preview the complete poem and opening page
Type into the student PDF using a compatible viewer, save and submit through Google Classroom. The teacher quiz builder automatically scores questions 1–10 after teacher setup. Questions 11–14 and RACE are teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
Salutamus
Sterling A. Brown
How does the turn in line 9 transform the collective speaker’s response to exclusion?
Read the complete poem, analyze language and theme, and connect evidence across ELA, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning.
Included in the educator package
- 10 page printable and fillable student PDF with the complete poem
- Separate 5 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key and exemplar
- Daily Do Nows, collaborative inquiry and Quick Writes
- 15 assessment questions, ending with a final RACE response and a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment for grades 6–12
- Private teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide
Preview the complete poem and opening page
Type into the student PDF using a compatible viewer, save and submit through Google Classroom. The teacher quiz builder automatically scores questions 1–10 after teacher setup. Questions 11–14 and RACE are teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
Journey’s End
Zora Neale Hurston
How do images of rest and seasonal renewal work together rather than simply cancel one another?
Read the complete poem, analyze language and theme, and connect evidence across ELA, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning.
Included in the educator package
- 10 page printable and fillable student PDF with the complete poem
- Separate 5 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key and exemplar
- Daily Do Nows, collaborative inquiry and Quick Writes
- 15 assessment questions, ending with a final RACE response and a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment for grades 6–12
- Private teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide
Preview the complete poem and opening page
Type into the student PDF using a compatible viewer, save and submit through Google Classroom. The teacher quiz builder automatically scores questions 1–10 after teacher setup. Questions 11–14 and RACE are teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
Dead Fires
Jessie Redmon Fauset
How does the poem complicate the usual positive meaning of peace?
Read the complete poem, analyze language and theme, and connect evidence across ELA, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning.
Included in the educator package
- 10 page printable and fillable student PDF with the complete poem
- Separate 5 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key and exemplar
- Daily Do Nows, collaborative inquiry and Quick Writes
- 15 assessment questions, ending with a final RACE response and a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment for grades 6–12
- Private teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide
Preview the complete poem and opening page
Type into the student PDF using a compatible viewer, save and submit through Google Classroom. The teacher quiz builder automatically scores questions 1–10 after teacher setup. Questions 11–14 and RACE are teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
Grades 6–12 · Five-day interdisciplinary RST
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
How does the contrast between public expression and private suffering develop the collective voice?
Read the complete poem, analyze language and theme, and connect evidence across ELA, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning.
Included in the educator package
- 10 page printable and fillable student PDF with the complete poem
- Separate 5 page teacher guide with lesson plans, answer key and exemplar
- Daily Do Nows, collaborative inquiry and Quick Writes
- 15 assessment questions, ending with a final RACE response and a 19 point rubric
- Grade specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment for grades 6–12
- Private teacher Google Forms quiz builder and PDF setup guide
Preview the complete poem and opening page
Type into the student PDF using a compatible viewer, save and submit through Google Classroom. The teacher quiz builder automatically scores questions 1–10 after teacher setup. Questions 11–14 and RACE are teacher scored.
Full materials download after confirmed payment. Digital sales are final once files are available, except where required by law. Read the digital sales policy.
