Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.02.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Demographics: Identity and Latino Adolescents
  3. The Intersection of Identity, Poetry, and Instructional Practice
  4. Writing Poetry
  5. Audience
  6. Objectives and Common Core State Standards
  7. Essential Questions/Enduring Understandings
  8. Strategies
  9. Student Readings
  10. Scope and Sequence of Unit
  11. Appendices
  12. Bibliography
  13. Notes

Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry

Brandon Barr

Published September 2014

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Notes

1. Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning

2. Alicia Rodriguez, Latino Education, Latino Movement, 381–400.

3. Ashley Ross, Latino Representation and Education: Pathways to Latino Student Performance, 69.

4. Ann Marie Smith, Poetry Performances and Academic Identity Negotiations in the Literacy Experiences of Seventh Grade Language Arts Students, 202-218.

5. Alma M Garciìa, The Mexican Americans, 42.

6. Norma Williams, The Mexican American Family, 1-12.

7. Alma M Garciìa. The Mexican Americans, 39.

8. Ibid.

9. Kristine E. Pytash, Using YA Literature to Help Preservice Teachers Deal with Bullying and Suicide.

10. Ibid.

11. J. E. Marcia, Development and Validation of Ego-identity Status, 551-558.

12. Portia Nelson, Autobiography in Five Short Chapters.

13. Arlene L. Barry, Reading Preferences and Perceptions of Urban Eighth Graders, 353-374.

14. Ibid.

15. M. L. Maehr, Culture and Achievement Motivation, 887-896.

16. T. Shanahan & C. Shanahan, Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content-area Literacy, 40-59.

17. Ibid.

18. Countee Cullen, Incident

19. N. Frey & D. Fisher, Motivation Requires a Meaningful Task, 30-37.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Cat Stevens, Cats in the Cradle lyrics.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. T. Smith, Teaching Vocabulary Expeditiously: Three Keys to Improving Vocabulary Instruction, 20-25.

26. B. Ruben & L. Moll, Putting the Heart Back into Writing: Nurturing Voice in Middle School, 12-18.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Ann Marie Smith, Poetry Performances and Academic Identity Negotiations in the Literacy Experiences of Seventh Grade Language Arts Students, 202-218.

31. Ibid.

32. See http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/27/17694000-undocumented-military-cadets-molded-for-success-then-cast-adrift for the article with Francisco's poem.

33. N. Frey & D. Fisher, Motivation Requires a Meaningful Task, 30-37.

34. Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez, Carrice Cummins, and Elizabeth Manning. Web 2.0 Tools: Building Structures for Poetry, 9-24.

35. Ibid.

36. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and technical Subjects.

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