The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction/ Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Section Three
  6. Lesson Plan Format
  7. Teacher Bibliography
  8. Student Bibliography
  9. Notes

Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within

Maureen A. Lynch

Published September 2005

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

1 Knorr, Jeff. An Introduction to Poetry: The River Sings. New Jersey: Pearson

Education, Inc., 2004. (p2)

2 Bondi, Joseph and Jon Wiles. The Essential Middle School. Ohio: Charles E. Merrill

Company, 1981.

3 Koch, Kenneth. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? New York: Random House, 1973.

(Introduction)

4 Writers Corps. Paint Me Like I Am. New York: Harper Collins, 2003. (Forward by

Nikki Giovanni)

5 Giovanni, Nikki. Love Poems. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997.

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