The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Who is the Unit Designed For?
  3. Background My Students Bring to the Unit
  4. Goals and Objectives
  5. Correlation to Standards
  6. ESOL Classroom Strategies
  7. Poem Studying Strategies
  8. Unit Strategies
  9. Materials List
  10. Lesson Plans
  11. Annotated Bibliography/Works Cited
  12. Supplemental Reading List
  13. Student Reading List

Leaving, Longing, and Left Behind: Poems of Home

Mary C. Moran

Published September 2005

Tools for this Unit:

Student Reading List

Natasha Trethewey, "Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941"

Gwendolyn Brooks, "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell"

William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "I Am an Exile from my Home; Heavily"

Judith Ortiz Cofer, "El Olvido (Segun las Madres)"

T'ao Ch'ien, "Returning to My Old Home" Muriel Rukeyser, "Waiting for Icarus"

Emily Dickinson, "If You Were Coming in the Fall"

Sylvia Plath, "The Rival"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison"

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