The Sound of Words: An Introduction to Poetry

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.04.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Lesson One: Understanding What Is Poetry
  8. Lessons 2 and 3: "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay
  9. APPENDIX
  10. Annotated Teacher Bibliography
  11. Student Annotated Bibliography
  12. Notes

Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole

Jeanette Anita Gibson

Published September 2009

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Notes

1 Robert Hass, "Listening and Making Meaning," 120.

2 Walter Ong, "Word as Sound," in Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, 21.

3 National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), "Teaching Listening," 1.

4 Walter Ong, "Word as Sound," 21.

5 Ong, ibid., 23.

6 The text book is over 1370 pages. It has some useful teaching activities, but the selection of reading material is rather bland.

7 Langdon Hammer, Lecture, "Biography: Learning About Other People's Lives," July 8, 2009.

8 NCLRC. "Teaching Listening."

9 Langdon Hammer, Lecture

10 Robert Hass, "Listening and Making Meaning."

11 J. Ronald Gentile and James P. Lalley, Standards and Mastery Learning.

12 Robert Frost, "The Imagining Ear," in Collected Poems, Prose and Plays, 687.

13 Alan Sitomer and Michael Cirelli, Hip-Hop and the Classics, 126.

14 Bell Hooks, "'When I Was a Young Soldier for the Revolution': Coming to Voice," in Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, 51.

15 Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Spring."

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