Poetry as Sound and Object

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Teaching Situation and Rationale
  3. Unit Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Transforming Poetry of Witness to Performance of Protest

Tara Cristin McKee

Published September 2024

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Notes

  1. Popoff, Georgia A. and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community, 46.
  2. Ibid., 46.
  3. Ibid., 46.
  4. Emert, Toby. “Talking to, Talking about, Talking with: Language Arts Students in Conversation with Poetic Texts,” 72.
  5. Ferguson, Kristen. “Performing Poetry: Using Drama to Increase the Comprehension of Poetry.”
  6. Ibid.
  7. Emert, Toby. “Talking to, Talking about, Talking with: Language Arts Students in Conversation with Poetic Texts,” 68.
  8. “The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit.’”
  9. Ibid.
  10. Ibid.
  11. Ibid.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Ibid.
  14. Williams, Manuela. “The Poet’s Toolbox: What is Poetry of Witness?”
  15. Ibid.
  16. Apol, Laura. "Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda Engaging with the Lives of Others Self, Audience, and Activism: Poetry of Witness."
  17. Ibid.
  18. Ibid.
  19. Popoff, Georgia A. and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community, 115.
  20. Martin, Wendy, and Annalisa Zox-Weaver. “Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness,” 422.
  21. Popoff, Georgia A. and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community, 117.
  22. Bleiker, Roland. “Pablo Neruda and the Struggle for Political Memory,” 1131.
  23. “Part I: Teaching Neruda’s Poetry,” 11.
  24. Ibid., 11
  25. Chamblee, Angela E. “Teaching Latino Literature in a World Literature Class at an African American University.”
  26. “Guernica - Bombing of Guernica.”
  27. Ibid.
  28. Ibid.
  29. Bleiker, Roland. “Pablo Neruda and the Struggle for Political Memory,” 1131.
  30. Ibid., 1130
  31. Ibid., 1136
  32. Neruda, Pablo. “I’m Explaining a Few Things,” 8-9.
  33. Ibid., 14
  34. Ibid., 17
  35. Bleiker, Roland. “Pablo Neruda and the Struggle for Political Memory,” 1133.
  36. Neruda, Pablo. “I’m Explaining a Few Things,” 21-22.
  37. Ibid., 25.
  38. Ibid., 26.
  39. Ibid., 28.
  40. Ibid., 34.
  41. Ibid., 37.
  42. Ibid., 38.
  43. Ibid., 39.
  44. Ibid., 42.
  45. Ibid., 43-45.
  46. Ibid., 46-48.
  47. Ibid., 46.
  48. Ibid., 47.
  49. Ibid., 48.
  50. Ibid., 49.
  51. Ibid., 54.
  52. Ibid., 55.
  53. Ibid., 56.
  54. Ibid., 61-62.
  55. Ibid., 69-72.
  56. Ibid., 63.
  57. Ibid., 65-66.
  58. Ibid., 73.
  59. Ibid., 73-77.
  60. “Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World Teaching Strategy | Facing History & Ourselves.”
  61. “Easy Ways to Use Performance Poetry in ELA.”
  62. Meeropol, Abel. “Strange Fruit,” 7-8.
  63. Bleiker, Roland. “Pablo Neruda and the Struggle for Political Memory,” 1136.
  64. “Part I: Teaching Neruda’s Poetry,” 15.
  65. “Easy Ways to Use Performance Poetry in ELA.”

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