Note Slipped Under the Door, A: Teaching from Poems We Love
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571103201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whatever Shirley or Nick tell you-Believe them! --Naomi Shihab Nye
This book invites preservice and inservice teachers, staff developers - anyone who wants to make a lasting place for poetry in their own and their students' lives - into many of these same primary through middle school classrooms for an up-close look at several thoughtful, rigorous, poetry inquiries.Each chapter begins with a mentor poem as the centerpiece for discussion, followed by a short narrative of ways the authors view their world through that chapter's particular poetic. How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching?In their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions. The authors then walk the reader into a classroom writer's workshop where, through vignettes, conversations, and carefully designed mini-lessons, that chapter's key element of poetic practice is being s
"Beautiful lessons, but not for all teachers" according to Garrett Zecker. A pedagogical manual about teaching poetry writing to an audience of non-poets. The work within uses mentor poems to break down the specific and important elements of writing poetry from imagery, sound, rhythm, and the other concrete foundations. The book itself was interesting as it was a bit "spacey" and "feely" about the approach to sharing the material with students, and at times lacked a concrete and specific method of approaching the work itself. That is not to say there weren't activities and ap. The New Millennium Must A Note Slipped Under the Door by Nick Flynn/Shirley McPhillips is THE "how-to-teach-poetry" book of the new millennium! The format is a wonderful blend of easy to re-create lessons and an extremely well-written text with stories, anecdotes, and poems that will have you laughing and cryingbut definitely eager to read on. As I read the first few chapters one Sunday night, I couldn't wait to get into school on Monday to try out EVERYTHING I'd learned.. Jason Parkhurst said An excellent addition to your mentor catalog.. A Note Slipped Under the Door is a great resource. Not a checklist of boxes and standards or a blueprint of what and when you must perform in your classroom, but an invitation for inquiry and dialogue around poetry, an opportunity for creative teachers and students to interact with and to find mentor texts, poems, and each other (Imagine the discussion that can come from the first chapter's title alone--Watermelons in My Grandmother's Car--which is about image of course).The way the text uses examples