The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.12

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Strategies and Key Elements
  3. Sample Lessons
  4. Annotated Bibliography for Teachers
  5. Annotated Bibliography for Students
  6. Appendix
  7. Notes

The Inspired Voice: Invoking Poetry through Music

Kimberlee Presswood

Published September 2005

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

1 McCarthy, B. (2000). About teaching: 4Mat in the classroom. Wauconda, IL: About Learning,

Incorporated.

2 Sousa, D. A. (2001). How the brain learns. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.

3 Jensen, E. (2000). Brain-based learning. San Diego, CA: The Brain Store.

4 The Exquisite Corpse originated as a surrealist parlour game. Participants passed around the paper and added one word, thereby constructing the sentence: "The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine." Eventually, poems and stories were created by this game.

5 Gates, H. L. Jr. & McKay, N.Y. (Eds.). (2004). The Norton anthology of African American literature.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

6 Jess, T. (2004, March/April). The word/the blues. A meditation: Investigating blues poetry, an old

    tradition [Electronic version]. Black Issues Book Review, 6 (2), 19-21.

7 Gates, H.L. Jr.& McKay, N. Y.

8 Charters, A. (Ed). (1992). The portable Beat reader. New York: Penguin Group.

9 Lewis, D.L. (Ed). (1994). The portable Harlem Renaissance reader. New York: Penguin Group.

10 Gates, H.L. Jr.& McKay, N. Y.

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