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:

Reading List for Students

Panzer, Nora. Celebrate America: in poetry and art. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1994.

A themed selection of Ekphrastic poems.

Prelutsky, Jack, and James Stevenson. It's raining pigs & noodles: poems. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2000.

A large selection of children's poetry.

Silverstein, Shel. Falling up: poems and drawings. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996.

An assortment of poems illustrated and written by Shel Silverstein

Whipple, Laura. Celebrating America: a collection of poems and images of the American spirit. New York: Philomel Books, 1994.

A themed selection of ekphrastic poems.

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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