Text structures from poetry : lessons to help students read, analyze, and create poems they will remember : grades 4-12 / Gretchen Bernabei, Laura Van Prooyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernabei, Gretchen S., author.

Van Prooyen, Laura, author.

Series:

Corwin Literacy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.

Poetry.

Poetry--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Activity programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, Inc., 2020.

Summary:

Ignite a love of poetry in students using the magic of poems themselves "Pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work by using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. Fifty unique and engaging lessons each include a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Identify how the parts of a poem relate to each other to create movement and soon your students will be writing their own evocative poems.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

LESSONS

Contemporary Poems

1. Kelli Russell Agodon Love Waltz With Fireworks

2. Sarah Anderson At the Lake

3. Jimmy Santiago Baca I Am Offering This Poem

4. Sheila Black Possums

5. Joe Brainard I Remember (Excerpt)

6. Joanne Diaz My Mother's Tortilla

7. Vievee Francis Still Life With Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood

8. Ann Hudson Chorus, Venable Elementary

9. August Kleinzahler Snow in North Jersey

10. Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Draw

11. Nathan McClain Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

12. Rose McLarney Full Capacity

13. Naomi Shihab Nye Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things

14. Matthew Olzmann Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed Into a Bar of Chocolate

15. Octavio Quintanilla Parting

16. Leslie Contreras Schwartz The Falcon

17. Patricia Smith Fixing on the Next Star

18. Angela Narciso Torres What I Learned This Week

19. Natalia Treviño Maria

20. Laura Van Prooyen On the Shoreline

21. Laura Van Prooyen As Always, Thirty Years Between Us

22. Laura Van Prooyen Postcard From Texas

23. Laura Van Prooyen One of Those Days

24. Laura Van Prooyen She Inherits His Steady Hand

Classic Poems

25. Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book

26. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

27. Robert Browning My Last Duchess

28. Robert Burns To a Mouse

29. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Regret

30. Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died

31. John Donne The Flea

32. Paul Lawrence Dunbar A Musical

33. T.S. Eliot Preludes (Excerpt)

34. Robert Frost Fire and Ice

35. Frances Ellen Harper Learning to Read

36. Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides

37. Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty

38. A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty.

39. Marianne Moore A Jelly-Fish

40. Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est

41. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

42. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man (Excerpt)

43. Alexander Posey On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900

44. Carl Sandburg Grass

45. William Shakespeare Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun

46. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias

47. Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

48. Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

49. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

50. William Butler Yeats When You Are Old

Appendices

1. Complete Collection of 50 Text Structures

2. Glossary: Fixed Forms

3. Glossary: Meter

4. Glossary: Rhyme

5. Positive Points for Potential Poets by Patricia S. Gray

6. How Can I Improve My Poem? (Plus Bonus Notes From Laura)

7. Journal Page: Metaphor

8. Journal Page: Pitchfork

9. Journal Page: Personification

10. Journal Page: Truism

11. Journal Page: Verbs

12. Journal Page: Visual Image

13. Reading Lenses and STAAR Stem Questions

14. Meet the Contemporary Authors: Author Fun Facts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781544398860

1544398867

OCLC:

1173994673