The Dark within Us All: Stephen Dobyns'"Bleeder" (Modern Poetry in the Classroom).

Vogel, Mark; Tilley, Janet

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Publication Date: 1991

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The Dark within Us All: Stephen Dobyns'"Bleeder" (Modern Poetry in the Classroom).

Vogel, Mark; Tilley, Janet

English Journal, v80 n3 p47-50 Mar 1991

Illustrates the power of responsive teaching and how one teacher used a modern poem about cruelty to address a recent incident of her own students' cruelty to a classmate. Notes that the class responded with compassion, tolerance, and a sense of caring for those who are different. (MG)

Descriptors: Audience Response, Junior High Schools, Poetry, Student Reaction, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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