| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Series |
Corwin literacy |
| Contents |
Contemporary Poems; "Love Waltz With Fireworks" by Kelli Russell Agodon; "At the Lake" by Sarah Anderson; "I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca; "Possums" by Sheila Black; "I Remember" by Joe Brainard; "My Mother's Tortilla" by Joanne Diaz; "Still Life With Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood" by Vievee Francis; "Chorus, Venable Elementary" by Ann Hudson; "Snow in North Jersey" by August Kleinzahler; "Draw" by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater; "'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper" by Nathan McClain; "Full Capacity" by Rose McLarney; "Because of Libraries We Can Say Such Things" by Naomi Shihab Nye; "Letter to a Cockroach, |
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Now Dead and Mixed into a Bar of Chocolate" by Matthew Olzmann; "Parting" by Octavio Quintanilla; "The Falcon" by Leslie Contreras Schwartz; "Fixing on the Next Star" by Patricia Smith; "What I Learned This Week" by Angela Narciso Torres; "Maria" by Natalia Treviño; "On the Shoreline" by Larua Van Prooyen; "As Always, Thirty Years Between Us" by Laura Van Prooyen; "Postcard from Texas" by Laura Van Prooyen; "One of Those Day" by Laura Van Prooyen; "She Inherits His Steady Hand" by Laura Van Prooyen; Classic Poems; "The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet; "Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning; "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns; "Regret" by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks; "Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" by Emily Dickinson; "The Flea" by John Donne; "A Musical" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Excerpt from "Preludes" by T.S |
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Eliot; "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost; "Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Harper; "Old Ironsides" Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Pied Beauty" Gerard Manley Hopkins; "When I Was One and Twenty" by A.E. Housman; "The Jellyfish" Marianne Moore; "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen; "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe; Excerpt from "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope; "On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900" by Alexander Posey; "Grass" by Carl Sandburg; "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare; "Ozymandias" by Percy Byshee Shelley; "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas; "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" by Walt Whitmas; "I Wandered a Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth; "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats |
| Summary |
Ignite a love of poetry in students using the magic of poems themselves "Pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work by using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. Fifty unique and engaging lessons each include a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Identify how the parts of a poem relate to each other to create movement and soon your students will be writing their own evocative poems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Grades 4-12 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs
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Poetry -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Activity programs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Van Prooyen, Laura, author
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| ISBN |
9781544398860 |
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1544398867 |
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