20 Jams de Poesía Book

Twenty poems by ten Hispanic poets for your Level 1 and 2 students to experiment with! The goal is to have fun with poetry while learning all about the poets and poems of the Hispanic world in a hands-on and practical way. The book is entirely in Spanish with the exception of the Vocabulario sections. The first 10 poems and activities are written mainly in present tense for Level 1 students to understand, and the second 10 are written with a mixture of preterite, future, imperfect, and present perfect tenses. Poets include Gustavo Bécquer, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Rubén Darío, José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rosalía de Castro, Alfonsina Storni, and Amado Nervo. 

©2021. Spanish. Levels 1 and 2. High school. Reproducible. 76 pages.

Book Download: PDF. Color pages.

Print Book: Spiral-bound. 8.5 x 11 inches. Black-and-white pages.

About the Author

Award-winning teacher, presenter, and author Tom Alsop is a former middle school and high school Spanish teacher who now teaches Spanish at Butler University in Indianapolis. He often presents at world language conferences and leads workshops at schools around the country. He is the director of three summer Spanish teacher immersion programs (Aventura Cultural) for high school and middle school teachers in Havana, Cuba; Madrid, Spain; and Guadalajara, Mexico.