The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.14

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Outline
  4. Suggested Poetry for Comparative Analysis
  5. Lesson Plans
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Notes

Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

Susan Hillary Buckson Greene

Published September 2005

Tools for this Unit:

Annotated Bibliography

Suggested Resources for Students

Baskwill, Amanda-Lynn. (2003) English 11. http://www.bridgetown.ednet.ns.ca/

Amanda-Lynn%20Baskwell/WEB/poetry.htm

Developed by an eleventh grade student with the primary focus of helping herself to understand scansion and a method of poetic analysis, this site offers a student-friendly walk through not only poetry, but experiences with Shakespeare, novels and essay development.

Lansky, Bruce. 2004. PoetryTeachers.com. 7 July 2005 http://www.poetryteachers.

com/index.html>.

Exceptional site for students and teachers alike, this site provides fun interactive poetry activities as well as great poems that students will remember for year to come.

Lass, Abraham H., David Kiremidjian, Ruth M. Goldstein. 1987. Dictionary of

Classical, Biblical, and Literary Allusions. New York: Facts on File.

Valuable resource for an academic library.

Murfin, Ross C. and Supryia M. Ray. 2003. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and

Literary Terms. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Valuable resource for students to have in their literary library.

Suggested Resources for Teachers

Anthology of Poetry. 2005. WebBook Publications. 9 July 2005. http://www.web-

books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm>.

Site provides links to over fifty classic poets and their works as well as free downloads to plays, novels and historical documentation and other works.

Arp, Thomas R. 2005. Perrine's literature: structure, sound, and sense. Boston, MA:

Thomson Wadsworth.

Authentic Education. 7 July 2005 http://www.grantwiggins.org/resources.lasso>.

Site provides a framework for Understanding by Design model articulated by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Several links provide access to bibliographic resources and professional development opportunities.

Bliss, Kappie. 2004. Project Alert. Creative Ways to Organize Students for Small

Group Activities. http://www.projectalert.com/ResourceFiles/_sdcreativeways

09232002.pdf>.

The site offers sixteen energizing and imaginative methods for grouping students. Some require materials.

The College Board. http://CollegeBoard.com>

Considered the leading organization for development in Advanced Placement (AP), CollegeBoard.com provides resource information in all offered AP disciplines as well as archived tests that are very useful for classroom skill development. Sample Advanced Placement Literature test questions provided are useful in the strategic/backward design of lessons within vertical teams. The site caters effectively to students, educators and parents equally.

—. College Board: AP Central: English Literature and Composition. 6 July 2005. http:// apcentral.collegeboard.com/members/article/1,3046,152-171-0-2002,00.html>.

Erven, Bernard and Carl Zulauf. 1998. Key Points Concerning Group Assignments.

Ohio State University. http://ftad.osu.edu/Publications/keypoints.html>.

The site proposes key steps to forming, facilitating and evaluating the small group process.

Glossary of Poetic Terms from Bob's Byway. 19 March 2005.http://www.poeticbyway.

com/glossary.html>.

Site provides an extensive listing of terminology related to the poetic genre which provides phonetic pronunciation, hyperlinked cross-references, examples and examples from works of merit.

Johnson, James Weldon. 1983. Book of American Negro poetry, chosen and edited,

with an essay on the Negro's creative genius, by James Weldon Johnson. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Jokinen, Anniina. 2004. Luminarium. 6 July 2005 http://www.luminarium.org/

lumina.htm.

Site provides resources for Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century literature and artwork.

Lansky, Bruce. 2004. PoetryTeachers.com. 7 July 2005 http://www.poetryteachers.

com/index.html>.

Exceptional site for students and teachers alike, this site provides fun poems for classroom use as well as specific resources for teaching numerous poetic forms.

Mortal Women of the Trojan War. Stanford University 9 July 2005

http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/helen.html>.

The site provides both visual and written description of women involved in The Trojan War with links to other related events and persons. Provides full bibliography of online sources

Murfin, Ross C. and Supryia M. Ray. 2003. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and

Literary Terms. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Resource that not only every English teacher should have, but also every reader.

Supplemental Sources

Erickson, Lynn H. Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul: Redefining Curriculum and Instruction, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2000.

Hayes Jacobs, Heidi. Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12, Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1997.

Hunter, Robin. Madeline Hunter's Mastery Teaching: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools, updated edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2004.

Miller, Leanne. Backward into the Future. 2004. Professionally Speaking. 7 July 2005 http://www.oct.ca/en/CollegePublications/PS/june_2004/backward.asp>.

Article addresses the Backward Design model adopted by the Thames Valley (Ontario) school district. Though it is specific to the needs of this district, it is universal in that it provides key steps in such curriculum design/planning.

Kearsley, Greg. 2005. Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice

Database. Social Development Theory (L. Vygotsky). http://tip.psychology.

org/vygotsky.html>.

It offers a basis for Vvgotsky's theory of Social Development which contends that essentially cognitive development comes through social interaction and is limited to a specific age range. Its home site links to a smorgasbord of theories of cognition relevant to the practice of teaching.

Wiggins, Grant and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design, New York: Pearson Education, 2000.

The text offers a comprehensive discussion of the self-titled curriculum design paradigm.

—. 2005 http://www.grantwiggins.org/ubd.html>.

Site provides the basic history and framework for Understanding by Design. It offers a wealth of resources for professional development for those interested in furthering knowledge in this pedagogy.

Suggested Poetry

Several poems included are excellent for comparative analysis at the twelfth grade and are cross-referenced with this specific purpose in mind. I do not profess to have a complete compilation of works; hence, listing will mature as necessary.

Suggested for memorization at the middle school level

Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.)

Helen

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence

Sympathy

Frost, Robert

Stopping by the Woods On A Snowy Evening

The Road Not Taken (Crane, The Wayfarer)

Hughes, Langston

Dreams

Johnson, James Weldon

The Creation

Poe, Edgar Allen

To Helen

Thomas, Dylan

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Moore, Marianne

Silence

Viorst, Judith

If I Were In Charge Of the World

Ninth Grade

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia

The Mouse's Petition

Cavafy, Constantine

Ithaca

Dickinson, Emily

I Never Saw A Moor

Donne, John

Negative Love

Death Be Not Proud

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

She Walks In Beauty

Frost, Robert

Something Like A Star (Keats, Bright Star)

Herrick, Robert

To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time

Moore, Marianne

Silence

Poe, Edgar Allen

The Raven

The Bells

Annabel Lee

Shakespeare, William

Sonnet 30

The Seven Ages Of Man

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Charge Of the Light Brigade (from As You Like It)

Tenth Grade

Berryman, John

Winter Landscape (De La Mare, Brueghel's Winter)

Brooks, Gwendolyn

The Sonnet-Ballad

De La Mare, Walter

Brueghel's Winter (Berryman, Winter Landscape)

Dickenson, Emily

There Is No Frigate Like A Book

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Constantly Risking Absurdity

Frost, Robert

The Most Of It (Wordsworth, There Was A Boy)

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

God's Grandeur

Keats, John

Ode On A Grecian Urn (Stevens, Anecdote Of A Jar)

Marlowe, Christopher

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love (Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd)

Merriam, Eve

Metaphor

Owen, Wilfred

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Plath, Sylvia

Mad Girl's Love Song

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd

Rosetti, Dante Gabriel

Our Lady Of The Rocks

Water, for Anguish Of The solstice,-yea,

Shakespeare

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 29

Stevens, Wallace

Anecdote Of A Jar (Keats, Ode To A Grecian)

W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

Wordsworth, William

The World Is Too Much With Us

Yeats, William Butler

Leda And The Swan

Eleventh Grade

Bishop, Elizabeth

The Fish (Moore, A Jelly Fish)

Blake, William

The Sick Rose (Parker, One Perfect Rose)

The Chimney Sweeper (1789, 1794)

Dickenson, Emily

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence

We Wear The Mask

Eliot, T. S.

Whispers Of Immortality

Frost, Robert

Fire And Ice

Design

Moore, Marianne

A Jelly Fish (Bishop, The Fish)

Parker, Dorothy

One Perfect Rose (Blake, The Sick Rose)

Pound, Ezra

Portrait d'Une Femme

Rich, Adrienne

Storm Warnings

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

Stevens, Wallace

Thirteen Ways Of Looking at A Blackbird

Whitman, Walt

Hope Is The Thing

Twelfth Grade

Arnold, Matthew

Dover Beach

Auden, W. H.

Musée des Beaux Arts

Bishop, Elizabeth

One Art

Blake, William

The Tiger

The Lamb

Bridges, Robert

EROS (Stevenson, Eros)

Crane, Stephen

The Wayferer

Dickinson, Emily

We Grow Accustomed To The Dark (Frost, Acquainted With The Night)

Donne, John

A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning

Evans, Mari

When in Rome

Frost, Robert

Acquainted With The Night (Dickinson, We Grow Accustomed To The Dark)

Birches (Thomas, Fern Hill)

Gray, Thomas

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (Masters, Spoon River Anthology)

Housman, A. E.

To An Athlete Dying Young

Hughes, Ted

To A Pig (Plath, Sow)

Keats, John

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

To Autumn (Pushkin, Autumn)

Bright Star (Frost, Something Like A Star)

Lawrence, D. H.

Snake

Piano

Masters, Edgar Lee

Spoon River Anthology (Gray, Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard)

Plath, Sylvia

Mirror

Sow (Hughes, To A Pig)

Pushkin, Alexander

Autumn (Keats, To Autumn)

Shakespeare

Sonnets 73

Sonnet 130

Shelley, Percy

Ozymandias

Stevenson, Anne

Eros (Bridges, EROS)

Thomas, Dylan

Fern Hill (Frost, Birches)

Wesley, Charles

Gentle Jesus, Meek And Mild

Wordsworth, William

There Was A Boy (Frost, The Most Of It)

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