The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Overview
  3. Objective
  4. Additional Objectives
  5. Strategies and Student Assignments
  6. Why Men Go To War
  7. Why Men Go To War
  8. Death and Dying
  9. Death and Dying
  10. Supplementary material for teacher on color and number
  11. The Effects of War on Men and Women
  12. The Effects of War on Men and Women
  13. The Effects of War on Men and Women
  14. The Effects of War on Men and Women
  15. Additional Suggestions and Insight
  16. Bibliography
  17. Reading list for students
  18. Appendix
  19. Endnotes

A Century of War in Poetry: 1915-2015

Kinta C. Flemming

Published September 2005

Tools for this Unit:

Reading list for students

Poems covered in the unit:

W.B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"

Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details"

Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"

Wallace Stevens, "The Death Of A Soldier"

Carl Sandburg, "And They Obey"

Randall Jarrell, "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts"

Peter LaFarge, "Ballad of Ira Hayes"

W.D. Ehrhart, "A Relative Thing"

Dana Shuster, "Dried Corsages"

Huong Tram, "The Vietnamese Mother"

Selected stories from:

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

"On the Rainy River"

"Ambush"

"Enemies"

"Friends"

School issued Language Arts textbook

List of material for classroom use

An overhead projector

LCD panel and projector

CD player/Tape Player

VCR or DVD player

Art supplies

Access to Internet

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