Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.02.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Demographics
  5. Background
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Resources
  9. Appendix A
  10. Notes

Pictures, Poems, and Planets

Kristen Rosenthal

Published September 2014

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Notes

1. Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 26.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. "The Kennedy Center Arts Edge Artist Quotes," accessed July 13, 2014, http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/quotes/quotes/degas-edgar-1.

6. Joan I. Glazer and Linda Leonard Lamme, "Poem picture books and their uses in the classroom." The Reading Teacher 44, no. 2 (1990): 108, accessed July 13, 2014, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20200563

7. John Hollander, Rhyme's reason: a guide to English verse. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 2.

8. Judy S. DeLoache, Sophia L. Pierroutsakos, and David H. Uttal, "The Origins Of Pictorial Competence." Current Directions in Psychological Science 12, no. 4 (2003):114, accessed July 13, 2014, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20182855.

9. Glazer and Lamme, The Reading Teacher, 107.

10. Wood, Karen D., Katie Stover, and Brian Kissel, "Using digital voice threads to promote 21st century learning." Middle School Journal 44, no. 4 (2013): 58.

11. "No Escaping Wilmington Violence," accessed July 13, 2014, http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/speak-easy-delaware/63274-no-escaping-wilmington-violence-in-2013.

12. Milton Klonsky, Speaking pictures: a gallery of pictorial poetry from the sixteenth century to the present (New York: Harmony Books, 1975), 1.

13. Ibid.

14. Edward Lear and Peter Swaab, Over the land and over the sea: selected nonsense and travel writings (Manchester: Carcanet, 2005), xiii.

15. Philip Nel, Dr. Seuss: American icon (New York: Continuum, 2004), 23.

16. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 131.

17. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 58.

18. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 21.

19. Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio: the lion who shot back (United States: Harper Collins, 1963).

20. Shel Silverstein, Where the sidewalk ends: the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein (New York: Harper and Row, 1974) 287.

21. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 32.

22. Ibid.

23. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 59.

24. Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit: a billy sook (New York: HarperCollins, 2005).

25. Lisa Rogak, A boy named Shel: the life & times of Shel Silverstein (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), 170.

26. Klonsky, Speaking Pictures, 23.

27. Shel Silverstein, Every thing on it: poems and drawings (New York: Harper, 2011).

28. Silverstein, Every Thing On It.

29. Hollander, Rhyme's reason, 1.

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

1996),110.

31. Silverstein, Falling Up, 110.

32. Glazer and Lamme, The Reading Teacher, 104.

33. "Partnership for 21 st Century Skills," accessed July 13, 2014, http://www.p21.org/index.php.

34. Silverstein, Falling Up, 105.

35. Silverstein, Falling Up, 105.

36. DeLoache, Pierroutsakos, and Uttal, Origins of pictorial competence, 118.

37. Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson & the Olympians (New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005), 162.

38. Helen Plotz, Imagination's other place: poems of science and mathematics (New York:

Crowell, 1955), xi.

39. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 58.

40. Silverstein, Falling Up, 118.

41. Silverstein, Falling Up, 10.

42. Silverstein, Falling Up, 34.

43. Silverstein, Falling Up, 60.

44. Silverstein, Falling Up, 125.

45. Silverstein, Falling Up,110-1.

46. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 44.

47. Silverstein, Falling Up, 110-1.

48. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 8.

49. Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, 28.

50. Plotz, Imagination's other place, 27.

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