Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides
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Below are two downloadable packets offered by Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site for teachers' use. The packets are available to download as one large file, or in sections. Please click on the appropriate link below to download the desired document.
Longfellow's Life & Legacy Download the entire packet (.pdf file, 1.355 MB). Table of Contents & Introduction (.pdf file, 127 KB). Biographical Information (.pdf file, 85 KB). Poems & Primary Sources, part I (.pdf file 319 KB). Poems & Primary Sources, part II (.pdf file, 194 KB). Poetry and the Imagination Download the entire packet (.pdf file, 2.47 MB). Table of Contents and Unit Overview (.pdf file, 113 KB). Learning about Longfellow (.pdf file, 72.4 KB). The Poet's Toolbox (.pdf file, 87.4 KB). Drafting and Editing Poetry (.pdf file, 181 KB). Compiling a Writer's Magazine (.pdf file, 1.1 MB). |
Did You Know?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" was published in 1855. The name Hiawatha is Iroquois, but most of the stories he drew on for his work were from the Chippewa.