Teaching Poetry in High School / Edition 1

by Albert Somers

Overview

Albert Somers offers teachers a vast compendium of resources for teaching poetry in a highly accessible format.

If you were teaching poetry in high school, which poems would you select? Those you studied in first-year English because they were "classics"? Would you teach form and technique? What about rap? Albert Somers answers these and other questions, offering the teacher a vast compendium of resources in a highly accessible format. The book also offers over 40 complete poems, a discussion of assessment issues, poetry across the curriculum, and poetry on the Internet. A comprehensive resource for teachers, this book presents practical ideas and myriad ways for teachers and students to discover the joys of poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814152898
Publisher:	National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Publication date:	08/23/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	A Note to the Reader	ix
	Permissions	xi
I.	Background
1.	Poetry in America	3
2.	Poetry in the Schools	11
II.	Selection
3.	Selecting Poetry to Teach	25
4.	Contemporary Poets in the Classroom	47
III.	Approaches and Methods
5.	Approaching Poetry	65
6.	Responding to Poetry by Talking	90
7.	Responding to Poetry by Performing	108
8.	Poetry and Writing	125
9.	Teaching Form and Technique	145
10.	Assessing the Teaching and Learning of Poetry	158
11.	Teaching Poetry across the Curriculum	166
12.	Poetry and the Internet	183
IV.	Resources
Appendix A	Anthologies of Poetry	195
Appendix B	Reference Works	202
Appendix C	Selected Media Resources	204
Appendix D	Selected Journals	209
Appendix E	Selected Awards	210
	Works Cited	213
	Author	219

Editorial Reviews

Offers guidelines, resources, ideas, and possibilities for a better way to teach poetry to high school students, and demonstrates different ways to select and teach poetry with vignettes. Approaches incorporate well-known literature and lesser-known works, anthologies and magazines, the Internet, and popular culture. Includes appendices on poetry anthologies, reference works, journals, media, and awards. The author is a professor of education at Furman University. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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