Using+and+Teaching+Poetry

This wiki page builds upon our work in class 11 with the Milners, Atwell, and Orr articles and provides resources for using poetry, as well as teaching it. It will also include our Model __#|Poem__ Poetry Writing Activity Assignments.

** POETRY RESOURCES **

 * [|Poetry 180] (not just for high school)


 * [|"Introduction to Poetry"] by Billy Collins (poem addressing problematic way poetry gets taught at times)


 * [|How to Read A Poem Out Loud] from Poetry 180 and Billy Collins


 * [|Library of Congress Poetry Resource Page]


 * [|Poetry Daily]


 * [|Web English Teacher: Poetry Section]


 * [|The Poetry Corner]: Group on [|The English Companion Ning]


 * ** Magnetic Poetry and related sites: ** [|Magnetic Poetry Online Play Kits]; [|Magnetic Poetry KIds' Poetry Page]; [|Magnetic Poetry Home]; [|Shocked Poetry]; [|Poetry4Kids]

** OUR MODEL POEM POETRY WRITING ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENTS **
Using the poetry writing activity __#|completed__ in class 11 along with the __#|packet__ of examples provided in class, post a link to __#|your__ own poetry writing activity below. Include your name and the name of the poem prior to posting a link to your activity.

An example...
 * Hannah A.: Model Poetry Activity - "Private Edwin Jennison" by Barry Stagg - - - @Putting a Name with the Face

//Keep adding below...//
 * "Robin O.: Model Poetry Activity - @Traveling to the Homestead (activity title) created by Robin O.
 * Paige S.: Model Poetry Activity - Into Battle by: Julian Grenfell (Published Poem): My Battlefield (activity title)
 * Samantha M: Model Poetry Activity- Poets to Come by: Walt Whitman- A Poem for the Future
 * Brittany W: Model Poetry Activity- Risk Taking is Free by: Christina Henry
 * Kelsey B: Model Poetry Activity- Doing the right thing (Published Poem)
 * Jade G: Model Poetry Activity- Circle of Life by: Carly Nasch- Life's Growth and Changes
 * Blake G: Model Poetry Activity- African Praise Poems
 * Alex G: Model Poetry Activity- "The Wrong Side of the Cross" by Richard E. Hughes
 * Stephanie Snead.: Model Poetry Activity- I, Too, sing America by Langston Hughes
 * Kaitlyn Kelleher: Model Poetry - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
 * Michelle Parker: Model Poetry - Where I'm From by George Ella Lyon
 * Hailee Klauka: Model Poetry Activity- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
 * Mary Weeks: Model Poetry- Falling from a height, holding hands by Gary Snyder
 * Pryscilla Lee: Model Poetry- Women during the Industrial Period- Poem by __#|Maya Angelou__ [[file:PhenomenalWoman_Poetry_Activity_Industrialization.doc|Phenomenal Woman]]
 * Stephanie Cogdill: Model Poetry Activity- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
 * Rachel McSwain: Model Poetry Activity - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
 * Amanda Moniz: Model Poetry Activity - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Stephanie Doss Model Poetry Activity - In Flanders Fields by Lt. John McCrae
 * Brittany J: Model Poetry activity- Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love by Tim Burton
 * Joshua Singer: Model Poetry Activity- Dystopia by Josh Gibbons
 * Tyler Clark: Model Poetry Activity - Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
 * Stephanie Hairyes:Model Poetry Activity- "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe