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Attention! Do you teach Hispanic poets in the classroom? Time to celebrate National Poetry Month!

April is National Poetry Month. EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov/ ) salutes great poets from around the world with special National Poetry Month features, like our Hispanic literary masters spotlight. This spotlight is fully available in both Spanish and English and it highlights six great Hispanic poets of various time periods: The Baroque, or the Spanish Golden Age, and the twentieth century. The special feature gived background information and additional resources on the works of the greatest poets of the Spanish language, like Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Luis de Góngora y Argote, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from the Spanish Golden Age, as well as Nobel laureates of the twentieth century, like  Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz.

The Spotlight highlights exceptional websites, Nobel lectures, biographical information, samples of the poetry of each poet as well as related resources within EDSITEment and other approves websites.

The Spanish version, “Seis gigantes de la literatura hispana” can be found at:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/seis-gigantes-de-la-literatura-hispana#node-22358

The English version, “Six Hispanic Literary Giants can be found at:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/six-hispanic-literary-giants

With this great vetted website from EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov/) you can have your students read stories or listen to them as they watch a video animation! Try it in the classroom and discover all that you can use it for!

Mis Cositas Resources: Cuentos

Teacher-created resource with picture books and audio books in Spanish.

AT:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites/mis-cositas-resources-cuentos

Discover the season with EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov/) and our Women's History Month Feature: http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/womens-history-month#node-22273

Descubre la nueva temporada con EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov/) y nuestra pieza en honor al Mes de La Historia y la Mujer  http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/womens-history-month#node-22273

On March 5th, 1694, Great poet, and first great Latin American Poet, a Mexican nun by the name of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was forced to reaffirm her vows to the Catholic Church. She had to give up her books and her writing. She was a published poet in both continents, New and Old---quite a feat in those days for a woman!

However, once she lost her royal protection, she had to part from that which she loved the most: her books, learning, writing. She had to profess her vows as a nun above all else, and sign in her own blood "I, the worst of all"

This great thinker and writer, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, is an essential component to the AP Spanish Literature Curriculum and for any scholarship in Spanish and Latin American literature and poetry.

With this timeline from EDSITEment,http://edsitement.neh.gov/ , you can trace the life of this great and singular woman and poet: http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/worksheets/Interactive-Timeline-Sor-Juana_0.pdf

With this Curriculum Unit, with two lesson plans, you can learn about her work and about some of the most beautiful verses written in the Spanish language

http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/sor-juana-in%C3%A9s-de-la-cruz-first-great-latin-american-poet

Open your students' minds and exercise their Spanish skills (these lesson plans are fully bilingual) with this singular, outstanding resources.

To teach about literature non native English speakers, and to prepare non natives and English language learners to study and speak about literature, they must first know the literary terminology.

This is a

Literary Glossary Index Complete with lesson plans

AT: http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference-shelf/glossaries/literary-glossary-index

Discover how many different ways you can use this in the classroom.

The Poetry Foundation offers a wide extraordinary collection of poetry for ESL classroom, plus, who can’t benefit from Poetry? In any language...

Poetry Foundation

Children’s section offers imaginative ways to incorporate poetry in children’s lives, interviews with poets, and more. Includes an interactive poetry tool for searching through poems.

AT:http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites/poetry-foundation

This is the featured resource of the day, for Spanish learners and teachers:

Historias del cielo. La astronomía a través de los mitos

From the Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas, a site on astronomy and the mythology of the heavens, with music and readings on figures of Greek mythology, the stars, and constellations. Intermediate through advanced students.

At: http://ntic.educacion.es/v5/web/pamc/pamc_2009/historias_cielo/

This is part of EDSITEment's (http://edsitement.neh.gov/ ) Best of the Web in Spanish (http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference-shelf/best-web-spanish-language-websites-general-sites  )