Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.02.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Rationale
  4. Objectives
  5. Content Background
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Resources
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Reading List for Students
  10. List of Materials for Classroom Use
  11. Appendix - Implementing District Standards
  12. Notes

Visual Poetry

Teresa Sue Strohl

Published September 2014

Tools for this Unit:

List of Materials for Classroom Use

White drawing paper

Pencils, Colored Markers, and black Sharpie Markers

Watercolor paint/brushes

Large Drawing Paper

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Spines of books for book titles

Art Prints: Stuart Davis', Combination Concrete #2 (1956-58), Charles Demuth's, I saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928), Grant Wood's, American Gothic (1930), Vincent van Gogh's, The Starry Night (1889), Edvard Munch's, The Scream (1893), Henri Rousseau's, Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891).

Comments:

Christopher Macgowan

April 17, 2015 at 4:58 pm

William Carlos Wiliams' poem \\"The Great Figure\\"

Just a detail: This poem is not based on a painting by Demuth, the poem came first. The painting is based on the poem. See Williams Collected Poems, Volume I.

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