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Wordplaygrounds : reading, writing, and performing poetry in the English classroom
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Offers a variety of new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms, with more than twenty-five activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding...
Offers a variety of new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms, with more than twenty-five activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around them.
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- Creator
- John S. O'Connor
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814158196, 9780814158197
- OCLC
- ocm56095521
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154).
- 1. Everyday Poets -- In My Life -- Teaching Poetry -- Using Models -- The Teacher as Coach -- Revision -- Author-izing Students -- Poetry and Performance -- 2. Preparing the Palette -- Word Warm-ups -- Word Association Poems -- List Poems -- Map Poems -- Definition Poems -- 3. Same Pond, New Splash: Writing Modern English Haiku -- Features of Haiku -- Writing Haiku -- 4. Songs of Ourselves -- Name Poems -- I Contain Multitudes -- 5. Presences and Absences -- Object Lessons -- Odes to Common Things -- Loss Poems -- 6. Avenues to the Past -- I Remember -- Memory Poems -- Photograph Poems -- Writing Photograph Poems -- 7. Sounds, Speeds, and Sliding Doors -- Sound Poems -- Speed Poems -- Writing Speed Poems -- Sliding Doors Poems -- 8. Reading Ourselves away from Ourselves -- Responding to Art -- Historical Persona Poems -- Literary Persona Poems -- Dramatizing People in Our Lives -- City/Neighborhood Poems -- 9. Writing Lives -- Poetry Poems -- Revision -- Books of Poems -- 10. Performance Tools: Punching, Pausing, Painting -- Punching Words -- Pausing -- Painting Words -- Performing Children's Poems -- Choral Poems -- 11. Performance: Stage Persona -- Class Example: Discovering Persona -- Group Performances of First-Person Poems -- 12. Performance: Beyond the Boundaries -- Poetry and Music -- Performance Art: Poem-Music Collaboration -- The Haiku Project -- Reading outside the English Classroom