The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

Bibliography

Teachers

Brook, Cleanth & Warren, Robert Penn. Understanding Poetry 4th ed. New York: Holt,

Rinehart and Winston, 1976.

A very basic set of principles for analyzing poetry.

Holbrook, Sara. Practical Poetry: A nonstandard Approach to Meeting Content – Area

Standards. Portsmouth: Heinman, 2005.

A collection of instructional strategies with student samples, with chapters devoted to core content areas.

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

A good book for those beginning poetry.

Margolick, David. Strange Fruit. As published in Vanity Fair - September 1998.

http://www.ladyday.net/stuf/vfsept98.html

Sherman, Joan R ed. African - American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago:

University of Illinois Press, 1992.

An anthology of thirty-five poets presented. Each poet's poems are printed chronologically.

Wagner, Jean. Black Poets of the United States. Chicago: University of Illinois Press,

1973.

This book focuses on a half – century of African American poetry published from 1890 to 1940.

Students

Poetry for Kids Web Site

http://www.42explore.com/poetry.htm

This site links to many other sites on specific poetry topics for students.

Resources / Web Sites

Poems

" To Cinque" by James Monroe Whitfield

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/misc/whitfield.to.cinque.html

"On being brought from Africa to America" by, Phyllis Wheatley

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=620

"Bury Me in a Free Land" by, Frances Harper

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2001/harper0105.html

"Following the Drinking Gourd" by Bernadine Connelly

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/gourd.htm

"Emancipation" by, Paul Laurence Dunbar

http://www.dunbarsite.org/gallery/Emancipation.asp

"Fifty Years, 1863 – 1913" by James Weldon Johnson

http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/johnson.html

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes

http://www.duboislc.org/ShadesOfBlack/LangstonHughes.html

"Strange Fruits" by Lewis Allen

http://www.fotografianegliannitrenta.com/can11.htm

"Searching for The Prize" by George Cassutto

http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/black.htm

Website for Lesson II

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

http://www.jeannepasero.com/harlem.html

This website contains a brief summary of the history, art, music, journals, and newspapers of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Harlem Renaissance Collection

http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/harren/HARREN.HTM

This is website provides a very brief historical overview of the time period and includes links to noted leaders, writers, and entertainers.

Paintings

Rhapsodies in Black: by Charmine Watkiss for the Institute of International Visual Arts.

http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html

This site combines images and text to elaborate on some key themes.

Essay

Lindy Hop in Harlem: The Role of Social Dancing

http://artedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/themes/lindyhop.html

Jazz Music (audio)

PBS Biographies: Duke Ellington

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biograpy/artist_id_ellington_duke.html

Poetry (audio)

The Academy of American Poets: Langston Hughes

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0E01