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Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives
A Guide for Middle School Teachers
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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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Education Teaching MethodsTable of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Poetry and a Few Hot Topics
- Part I: Reading Poems
- A Creative Environment
- An Initial Classroom Activity
- Lesson 1: Becoming an Active Reader
- Lesson 2: Understanding the Central Metaphor
- Lesson 3: Literary Terms and Devices
- A Classroom Test
- Lesson 4: Personification
- Lesson 5: Standardized Testing
- Lesson 6: Two Poems, Side by Side
- Lesson 7: Other Poems
- Lesson 8: One More Favorite
- Building Confidence
- Writing Assignments and Poet Project
- Technology, Multimedia, and Teamwork
- More on Student Assessments
- Part I: Writing Poems
- A Creative Environment for Writing
- Writing Poems: An Initial Exercise
- Week 1: Haiku
- Week 2: Cinquain
- Week 3: Tanka
- Week 4: Event Poem
- Week 5: List Poem
- Week 6: Pastoral Poem
- Week 7: Blues Poem
- Week 8: Sestina
- Week 9 and 10: Free Verse
- Final Poetry Project, Class Anthology . . . and a Coffee House!
- Other Considerations for Teachers
- Conclusion
- Selections Licensed
- About the Author
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