This Amanda Gorman Poetry Unit helps AP Literature and high school English students closely read and analyze powerful contemporary poems such as " The Hill We Climb", and "In This Place (An American Lyric)."The unit builds students’ skills in identifying tone, diction, imagery, symbolism, structure, and voice while exploring themes like collective responsibility, hope after hardship, and climate urgency. Students examine how Gorman uses repetition, anaphora, and striking visual language to cr