Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Classroom Demographics
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Background information on Langston Hughes
  5. Hughes's Poetry, Music, and the Harlem Renaissance
  6. Strategies for Using Poetry in the Classroom
  7. Activities
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography

Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes

Joyce Jacobson

Published September 2014

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Bibliography

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Poetry Foundation. "Glossary Terms." Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/harlem%20renaissance (accessed August 13, 2014).

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Hughes, Langston. Selected poems. [1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1959.

Hughes, Langston, Arnold Rampersad, and David E. Roessel. The collected poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Knopf :, 1994.

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"Langston Hughes' Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements." Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/03/14/rent_parties_langston_hughes_collection_of_rent_party_cards.html (accessed August 13, 2014).

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