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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