National Poetry Month
> This April, immerse yourself and your students in the hour-long
documentaries of "Voices & Visions"
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Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and William Carlos
Williams. Several programs are scheduled to air on the Channel in April;
click on "Broadcast Dates" for details.
> Our literary analysis series "Literary Visions"
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about different aspects of poetry.
> Consider the historical relevance of American poetry in "American
Passages: A Literary Survey"
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Poetry," and Program 15, "Poetry of Liberation."
> Get upper elementary students started with poetry with this lesson
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for "Engaging With Literature: A Video Library, Grades 3-5." The page
includes a link to a list of poems suggested for teaching the use of
line breaks, repetition, and other devices.
> Try out different teaching strategies presented in "Teaching
Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades"
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the work of Nikki Grimes, whose characters in the novel "Bronx
Masquerade" perform at an "open mike" poetry event at school. Grimes's
poems appear on pages 17-20 of this PDF document
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> "The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High
School" offers lessons plans for teaching poetry, like this one
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of Lawson Fusao Inada. Hear and read an excerpt of Inada's poem "Drawing
the Line" at <http://learner.org/redirect
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