Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12: Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember / Edition 1

by Gretchen Bernabei, Laura Van Prooyen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544384856
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/10/2020
Series:	Corwin Literacy
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	995,060
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.

Laura Van Prooyen is author of two collections of poetry, Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press 2015) and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press 2006). She has more than 20 years experience teaching poetry and writing in a variety of academic settings including: Dominican University, Chicago Public Schools, Del Valle High School, and Henry Ford Academy: The Alameda School for Art + Design. Presently, Van Prooyen teaches in the Low-Res MFA Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Oxford, OH and lives in San Antonio, TX. You can find more of her work at www.lauravanprooyen.com.

Table of Contents

Contemporary Poems
"Love Waltz With Fireworks" by Kelli Russell Agodon
"At the Lake" by Sarah Anderson
"I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
"Possums" by Sheila Black
"I Remember" by Joe Brainard
"My Mother's Tortilla" by Joanne Diaz
"Still Life With Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood" by Vievee Francis
"Chorus, Venable Elementary" by Ann Hudson
"Snow in North Jersey" by August Kleinzahler
"Draw" by Amy Ludwig Van Derwater
"'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper" by Nathan Mc Clain
"Full Capacity" by Rose Mc Larney
"Because of Libraries We Can Say Such Things" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed into a Bar of Chocolate" by Matthew Olzmann
"Parting" by Octavio Quintanilla
"The Falcon" by Leslie Contreras Schwartz
"Fixing on the Next Star" by Patricia Smith
"What I Learned This Week" by Angela Narciso Torres
"Maria" by Natalia Treviño
"On the Shoreline" by Larua Van Prooyen
"As Always, Thirty Years Between Us" by Laura Van Prooyen
"Postcard from Texas" by Laura Van Prooyen
"One of Those Day" by Laura Van Prooyen
"She Inherits His Steady Hand" by Laura Van Prooyen
Classic Poems
"The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet
"Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
"To a Mouse" by Robert Burns
"Regret" by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
"Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" by Emily Dickinson
"The Flea" by John Donne
"A Musical" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Excerpt from "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
"Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Harper
"Old Ironsides" Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Pied Beauty" Gerard Manley Hopkins
"When I Was One and Twenty" by A.E. Housman
"The Jellyfish" Marianne Moore
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
Excerpt from "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope
"On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900" by Alexander Posey
"Grass" by Carl Sandburg
"Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare
"Ozymandias" by Percy Byshee Shelley
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" by Walt Whitmas
"I Wandered a Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
"When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats