This book, written out of the author's experiences while working with the Poets in the Schools programs in elementary schools in 10 states, contains a large assortment of student poems. It also contains specific tools which teachers may use to help their students learn to write and enjoy poetry. Forty-six chapters contain hints and observations on…

In this book, an attempt is made to describe how people actually speak and the language that is actually spoken. The subject of modern linguistics is presented in a new light. Good language is defined as a tension between the code and what needs to be said and a tension between the expressivity of the speaker and the comprehension of the hearer.…

Another in a series of Task Force on Ethnic Studies units, this document contains over 60 poems of the American Indian. Other units in this series are SO 005 534 through SO 005 551. (OPH)

Fifty white students and fifty black students from the eleventh and twelfth grades were asked to rank in order of their preference ten poems written by black and white authors, each accompanied by the author's name and a picture depicting his race to determine whether knowledge of an author's race acted as a determinant of the literary preferences…

A STUDY GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR STUDENT USE IN AN EIGHTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. THE GUIDE WAS DESIGNED TO INCLUDE ANALYSIS OF PLOT, FORM, AND VIEWPOINT OF LITERATURE WHICH WOULD APPEAL TO EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS. LITERATURE PASSAGES, STUDY QUESTIONS, AND SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES WERE INCLUDED FOR USE IN UNITS ON (1) LITERATURE REORIENTATION…

"Diwang Pilipino" is a student initiated reader which documents the experiences of Pilipinos in America, as viewed, analyzed, interpreted, and experienced by Pilipinos. All the articles deal exclusively with Pilipinos and cover issues such as immigrant problems, the role of women in the Phillippines, and organizing in a Pilipino community. English…

This rapid overview of the relatively new and rapidly changing writing and publishing industries in East Africa includes descriptions of some of the products--folktales for children; problems--few of the best writers in many African countries are published at home; and a developing literary tradition which includes political poems. (MBR)

The author, who is a poet, finds that it's "no good trying to be literary" with inner-city children. (Editor/RK)

An expected learning outcomes model for ninth-grade introductory poetry is presented as a format for the effective and efficient use of behavioral objectives in the English classroom. (RAO)

Contrasts the views of poets and poetry in Leo Lionni's "Frederick" and Randall Jarrell's "The Bat-Poet." (DD)

Illustrates how to dramatize--using movements, scripting, sensory images, and other techniques--poetry by providing description of how one group of students transformed Alfred Noyes's "Casey at the Bat."

Develops, refines and qualifies a thesis relating to the symbolism of the sea and investigates the evolution and gradual emergence of two separate patterns for the sea symbol in poetry and public rhetoric. (MH)

An aspect of childhood experience which may be universal is the recitation and enjoyment of traditional rhymes and games. Common threads can be traced in the themes, rhythmic repetition and types of activity found in examples of traditional games and rhymes from Great Britain, Nigeria and Uganda. (Author)

Examines the literary criticism of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound for an explication of key terms of the modernist poetic movement. (DD)

Presents 25 poems written by junior high school students in imitation of seven poems by Ogden Nash. (DD)