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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on the Power of Poetry: Teaching Content and More
Here are some resources from the ORC collection* related to
this month's theme, the Power of Poetry: Teaching Content and More. The resources
are divided into two groups. The first focuses on content resources and the second
on reading and writing poetry.
Content Resources for Teaching Poetry
| Find a Poem |   | ORC# 1201 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/59 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Prekindergarten - Postsecondary | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Supported by the Academy of American Poets, Find a Poem offers free access to the full text of more than 1,200 poems. In addition to poetry, this resource also provides author biographies, essays, and links to other related websites.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Find a Poet | | ORC# 1200 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Prekindergarten - Postsecondary | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Supported by the Academy of American Poets, Find a Poet provides access to poetry written by more than 450 poets. Information for each poet includes the full text of selected poems, biographies, essays, and links to other related resources.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High Schools | | ORC# 961 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grade 9 - Postsecondary | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Created by Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States, Poetry 180 is designed to make poetry an active part of students' daily experiences in American high schools. This resource provides a bank of contemporary poems, one for each day of the academic year, that may be downloaded, printed, and shared in school settings.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
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| Bartleby Verse | | ORC# 719 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 9 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Bartleby Verse is an online literary resource providing free access to thousands of poems. This internet publishing site houses over seventy anthologies and volumes of poetry, which may be downloaded and printed.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
Lessons for Reading and Writing Poetry
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| Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems | | ORC# 2790 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=211 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 9 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Concrete poems, poems that relate the placement of the words on the page to the meaning of the poem, provide an enjoyable literary experience that focuses students' attention on how a poet does more than simply put words together but can place them meaningfully on the page by paying attention to the subtle (or not so subtle) issues of layout. Using a collection of concrete poems, students draw conclusions about how a writer's choices play a role in writing.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Finders Keepers: Owning the Reading They Do | | ORC# 802 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.ncte.org/library/files/Free/Journals/vm/VM0052Finders... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 7 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Finders Keepers describes two strategies for using the found poetry activity, in which students use an author's words and their own reflections to create responses to literature by writing poems. The author, a middle school language arts teacher, begins by detailing how she integrates reading logs into her classroom instruction and teaches students to use these logs as the basis for their found poems.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS | | MORE... |
| In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning | | ORC# 2824 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=78 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 8 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This lesson uses poetry to build students' understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, students analyze the elements a poet uses to develop meaning.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Discovering a Passion for Poetry with Langston Hughes | | ORC# 2789 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=251 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 9 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: After analyzing examples of contemporary youth poetry as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes, students use the Internet to conduct research on how events in the world shaped Hughes' work. They cite specific examples, showing the link between their interpretations of the poem to the sociohistorical context in which the work was written.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Human Services, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: OhioWINS, Standards First | | MORE... |
| The Poetics of Hip Hop | | ORC# 4557 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3656/ | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 9 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This lesson combines an analysis of hip hop music and lyrics to provide students with a greater understanding of rhythm, form, diction, and sound in poetry. Students analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, then analyze hip hop music to determine common characteristics between the Bard's work and the music of hip hop artists.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
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