Bibliography/Teacher and Student Resources
Ahmed, Taz, and Zahra Noorbakhsh. "Shame On You." Interview.
#GoodMuslimBadMuslim(audio blog), December 30, 2014. Accessed May 8, 2017. I really enjoyed listening to several of the podcasts by these two amazing and comical women. This podcast in particular was especially moving, because Taz and Zahra share[] stories from women who felt shame or were shamed by their communities. I cried several times throughout this podcast, because I thought about all my students and some of the really tough life experiences they had dealt with at a very young age.
Listening to Shame. By Brene Brown. Long Beach Performance Arts Center, Long
Beach, March 2, 2012. This TED talk is a perfect introductory but also probing video for educators, parents, or anyone working with children, especially female adolescents from different countries. I shared this video with our school guidance counselor, and I hope she runs a professional development or a formal discussion about how we can help students who feel shamed or have been shamed by their families for various reasons.
Fisher, Douglas, and Nancy Frey. Improving adolescent literacy: strategies at work.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2004. I have had this book since graduate school, and I refer to it frequently for many of my curriculum units. Itsstrategies align directly to the Children’s Literacy Framework for our school district.
Fry, Paul. "‘Poetry Makes Nothing Happen ‘(Auden): What Does That Mean, and Why?"
Lecture, Yale National Initiative, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, New Haven, July 14, 2017. One of my favorite components of the Yale National Initiative is the presentations of seminar leaders throughout the Intensive Session. Fry’s lecture delved into an imperative theoretical dispute concerning the purpose and place of poetry in our lives.
Garner, Dwight. "A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories." The New York Times, May 5, 2017. Accessed July 14, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/books/06garn.html. Students could read this article for homework or within small guided instruction, because Garner outlines Taha Muhammad Ali’s displacement and conveys Ali’s heartache for homeland and new found identity in Nazareth.
"General Writing Resources." Purdue Online Writing Lab. 1995. Accessed August 01, 2017. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/ I use Purdue Online Writing Lab with every one of my writing assignments in class.
Heard, Georgia. Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and
Middle School. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1999. This book outlines theory and practice behind writing workshops for poetry within a classroom. The tone and style of this book is more formal and informative than Koch’s Red, Where Did You Get that Red? Writer’s workshops can vary depending on the type of writing assigned, because poetry workshops place heavier emphasis on individual brainstorming and drafting. This is the first time students are writing poetry for their portfolios, and they might be hesitant at first. If you are a teacher in a similar situation I recommend that you allow as much time as possible for the beginning stages of drafting and revising.
"Key Shifts in English Language Arts." Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Accessed July 01, 2017. http://www.corestandards.org/other-resources/key-shifts-in-english-language-arts/.
Koch, Kenneth. Rose, where did you get that red?: teaching great poetry to children.
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Koch’s book is as rare and wonderful a composition of teacher practices and student writing as I have seen in a long time. I realize this book is close to 30 years old, but teachers still teach several of the poems in Koch’s canon.
Mannani, Manijeh. "The Reader’s Experience and Forugh Farrokhzad’s
Poetry." Crossing Boundaries – an interdisciplinary journal 1, no. 1 (Fall 2001). Accessed July 8, 2017. file:///Users/kathleentradebaugh/Downloads/The_Reader__Experience_and_Forugh_Farrokhzad__Poe%20(1).pdf. This source provided great detail about the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, and her revolutionary artistic works in poetry and film. It was beneficial to me because I wanted to focus on a contemporary Muslim poet who broke away from the obligatory poetic conventions of early Muslim poetry.
Miller, Ross, and Wende Morgaine. "The Benefits of E-portfolios for Students and
Faculty in Their Own Words." Peer Review 11, no. 1 (January 2009): 8-12.
Accessed July 9, 2017. http://www.aacu.org/sites/default/files/files/peerreview/Peer_Review_Winter_2009.pdf.
Poetry A Day for Ramadan. December 5, 2014. Accessed August 03, 2017.
https://medium.com/poetry-a-day-for-ramadan.
"Poets of the 20th Century / Forugh Farrokhzad." Poetic Voices. Accessed July 10, 2017.
http://pvmw.org/?exhibit_posts=forugh-farrokhzad-2.
"Proofreading." The Chicago Manual of Style Online. 2010. Accessed July 24, 2017.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_proof.html.
Sajoo, Amyn B. A companion to the Muslim world. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. I needed to research the conventions of Muslim poetry starting from the sixth century to Rumi’s influence in the 13th century, an era when government and culture kept changing in Iran. Sajoo is the editor of this book, and there are 11 different contributors portraying several aspects of Islamic culture along a very expansive timeline. I read chapter 11 about the poetic conventions during the time period of Rumi compared to 20th century writing, mostly focusing on Adonis, a Syrian poet.
Shapiro, Alan. "Studying a Poem: Inquiry in an English Class." Morningside Center for
Teaching Social Responsibility. July 23, 2011. Accessed July 10, 2017.
http://www.morningsidecenter.org/print/211.
"Taha Muhammad Ali." Poetry Foundation. Accessed August 04, 2017.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/taha-muhammad-ali.
Ulaby, Neda. "Satire in The Muslim World: A Centuries-Long Tradition." NPR. January 10, 2015. Accessed July 01, 2017.
http://www.npr.org/2015/01/10/376127650/satire-in-the-muslim-world-a-
centuries-long-tradition.
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