Poetry and Public Life

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.03.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Bibliography
  7. Teaching Resource
  8. Reading List for Students
  9. Appendix—Implementing District Standards
  10. Endnotes

America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry

Debra Titus

Published September 2017

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Bibliography

Adoff, Arnold. My Black Me: A beginning book of Black poetry. New York: Puffin Books, 1995. Great resource with various poems that depict Blackness.

Gabbin, Joanne V. The furious flowering of African American poetry. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Ginwright, Shawn A. Black in school: Afrocentric reform, urban youth, & the promise of hip-hop culture. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004.

Heard, Georgia. Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core State Standards. New York: Scholastic, 2013. Helpful resource filled with strategies on how to teach poetry to grades K-5.

Hughes, Langston, I too, am America, ed. Bryan Collier, and Laurent Linn. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012.

Jones, D. Marvin. Fear of a hip-hop planet: Americas new dilemma. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013.

Keto, C. Tsehloane. An introduction to the Africa-centered perspective of history.   London: Research Associates School Times Publications/Karnak House, 1994. Gives in depth information regarding the African Centered perspective.

"Preparing America's students for success." Home | Common Core State Standards Initiative. Accessed July 16, 2017. http://www.corestandards.org

Thomas, Velma Maia. No man can hinder me: the journey from slaver to emancipation through song. New York: Crown, 2001. Resourceful information regarding the transformation of song from slavery to the emancipation in America.

Watkins, William H., Victoria Chou, and James H. Lewis, eds., Race and Education: The Roles of History and Society in Educating African American Students.

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