American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.02.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Appendices
  9. Notes

The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice

Zuri M. Bryant

Published September 2008

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

1. Robert Pinsky, Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, p. 18.

2. Mabel Osakwe, Poetrymate, p. 3

3. Reptinted from Elements of Literature, p. 622

4. Peter Elbow, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, p. xxxiii

5. Peter Elbow, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, p. xxxiv

6. Robert Frost, Collected Poems, Prose and Plays, p. 665

7. This link takes you to the poem by the original author as well a copy of the template for use in the classroom http://userpages.bright.net/~dlackey/wherefrom.pdf.

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