Reading and Writing Poetry with TeenagersWalch Publishing, 1996 - 172 pages This versatile volume combines examples of poetry from historical and contemporary masters with high school writing. Each chapter contains poems for reading aloud, poems for discussion, models for writing exercises, samples of student poems, and a bibliography for extended reading. Many teachers use Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers across disciplines. Writing exercises include:
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... Jordan , June , ed . Soulscript , Afro - American Poetry . ( some by black teenagers , now poets ) New York : Zenith / Doubleday , 1970 . Kherdian , David , ed . I Sing the Song of Myself . New York : Greenwillow Books , 1978 . Kramer ...
... Jordan , June , ed . Soulscript , Afro - American Poetry . ( some by black teenagers , now poets ) New York : Zenith / Doubleday , 1970 . Kherdian , David , ed . I Sing the Song of Myself . New York : Greenwillow Books , 1978 . Kramer ...
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... Jordan , June . Naming Our Destiny , New and Selected Poems . New York : Thunder's Mouth Press , 1989 . Kendrick , Dolores . The Women of Plums . ( voices of slave women ) Andover , MA : Phillips Exeter Academy Press , 1989 . Kenny ...
... Jordan , June . Naming Our Destiny , New and Selected Poems . New York : Thunder's Mouth Press , 1989 . Kendrick , Dolores . The Women of Plums . ( voices of slave women ) Andover , MA : Phillips Exeter Academy Press , 1989 . Kenny ...
Contents
Nature and the Environment | 1 |
Animals | 13 |
Sports | 31 |
Childhood Adolescence and Growing Up | 41 |
Notes | 66 |
Social and Global Issues | 95 |
Sonnets Villanelles and Sestinas | 115 |
Praise Poems and Odes | 141 |
Appendices | 153 |
About the Authors | 165 |
Credits | 171 |
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abstract Additional Poems Adolescence animal BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ADDITIONAL blue caged bird Chapter child choose color Copyright culture D.H. Lawrence Dance dark Denise Levertov DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS dream Duane Niatum E.E. Cummings Elizabeth end words eyes feel girl Gwendolyn Brooks hands hear heart imagery Judith Steinbergh Langston Hughes language Li-Young Lee light Linda Hogan line breaks lives look love thee Lucille Clifton Mary Oliver Maya Angelou metaphor meter mother never night Nikki Giovanni Pablo Neruda play Poems for Discussion poet Poetry Exercise Poetry with Teenagers quatrains QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION reader remember Reprinted by permission rhyme scheme rhythm Robert Frost sestina Sharon Olds simile sing slant rhyme smile song sonnet stanza Student Examples symbol themes things verse villanelle voice walk William wind wings woman Writing Exercises Writing Poetry young