Teaching Halloween Poems

The Poetry Foundation has some great lesson ideas for teaching Halloween poems.

The Academy of American Poets has a huge assortment of Halloween poems, some old, some new, some quite startling. The also have lesson plans, with Common Core Standards highlighted.

My favorite Halloween poem is Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, which you can read in all its glory here.

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy..."

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19257#sthash.nvoXrylO.dpuf"

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together In summer weather,— Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy; - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19257#sthash.nvoXrylO.dpuf

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together In summer weather,— Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy; - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19257#sthash.nvoXrylO.dpuf

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together In summer weather,— Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy; - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19257#sthash.nvoXrylO.dpuf

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together In summer weather,— Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy; - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19257#sthash.nvoXrylO.dpuf