Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives
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Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives

A Guide for Middle School Teachers

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eBook - ePub

Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives

A Guide for Middle School Teachers

About this book

This book serves as a practical guide, for teachers of middle-school students as well as higher grade levels, that provides clear and fully-developed lesson plans and activities that use the teaching of poetry reading and writing as a vehicle for developing students' own creativity and appreciation for diversity. The combination of theory and practice sets this book apart from other books, in addition to an original four-step method of making sense of poems. The book is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the critical reading of poems; the second focuses on the writing of poems, using different forms. Both work towards "the bigger picture" of developing students' ability to engage in respectful discourse and to view multiple perspectives as enriching rather than competing.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Poetry and a Few Hot Topics
  6. Part I: Reading Poems
  7. A Creative Environment
  8. An Initial Classroom Activity
  9. Lesson 1: Becoming an Active Reader
  10. Lesson 2: Understanding the Central Metaphor
  11. Lesson 3: Literary Terms and Devices
  12. A Classroom Test
  13. Lesson 4: Personification
  14. Lesson 5: Standardized Testing
  15. Lesson 6: Two Poems, Side by Side
  16. Lesson 7: Other Poems
  17. Lesson 8: One More Favorite
  18. Building Confidence
  19. Writing Assignments and Poet Project
  20. Technology, Multimedia, and Teamwork
  21. More on Student Assessments
  22. Part I: Writing Poems
  23. A Creative Environment for Writing
  24. Writing Poems: An Initial Exercise
  25. Week 1: Haiku
  26. Week 2: Cinquain
  27. Week 3: Tanka
  28. Week 4: Event Poem
  29. Week 5: List Poem
  30. Week 6: Pastoral Poem
  31. Week 7: Blues Poem
  32. Week 8: Sestina
  33. Week 9 and 10: Free Verse
  34. Final Poetry Project, Class Anthology . . . and a Coffee House!
  35. Other Considerations for Teachers
  36. Conclusion
  37. Selections Licensed
  38. About the Author