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Features
Naming the World consists of three instructional resources:
- A Poem a Day: A Guide to Naming the World explains why and how Nancie integrates poetry into her curriculum: what it does for her students as writers, as readers, and as people.
- The Daily Poem
- Finding Poems
- Poetry lessons
- Reasons for Poems
- Liam: A Portrait of a Poet
- How to Read a Poem
- How to Teach a Poem and How Not To
- How to Read a Poem Out Loud
- Setting the Stage
- Responses to Poems
- The Benediction
- Teach Students How to Find and Share Poems
- Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons
The 200+ Poems:
- were nominated by Nancie's students as their favorites;
- are written by acclaimed and accessible poets;
- include poems by Nancie's students, to teach and inspire yours;
- speak to adolescent interests and issues;
- illustrate the range of poetry-its subjects, forms, and devices;
- are provided in a reproducible format.
The 150 Lessons:
- are used daily by Nancie to launch her workshop and get her students talking and thinking as writers;
- invite both interactive and independent learning;
- model Nancie's language, methods, and knowledge;
- help students to develop an appreciation for literature, the ability to analyze and criticize literary writing, and new approaches to shaping and crafting their own writing across the genres.
View a lesson walkthrough: "Watermelon".
- Naming the World DVD shows Nancie teaching seven poetry lessons and students talking with her about the poems.
Introduction
Why Poetry
The Lessons
- Watermelon BY NORA BRADFORD (p. 63)
- Shell BY HARRIET BROWN (p. 65)
- I Can't Forget You BY LEN ROBERTS (p. 133)
- The Death of Santa Claus BY CHARLES WEBB (p. 145)
- Patriotics BY DAVID BAKER (p. 275)
- Richard Cory BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (p. 281)
- Shoplifting Poetry BY MARTIN STEINGESSER (p. 343)
Best implemented as a springboard into writing workshop, Naming the World is a natural companion to Atwell's Lesson's That Change Writers and In the Middle.
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