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Standards
Hardware/Software:
IBM compatible computer; Windows 98, Office 2000
Internet Explorer-best; Netscape-functional
Written using FrontPage 2000 and MS Office 2000
Materials:
Teachers’ resource books & workbooks
School and city library books on poetry
Daniel, Mark, ed., A Child's Treasury of Poems,
Dial Books, New York, NY, 1986.
Grahame, Kenneth, The Reluctant Dragon, ill. by
Ernest H. Shepard, Holiday House, 1938.
Holdridge, Barbara, ed., I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Poems of Emily Dickinson, ill. by Richard B. Sewall, Stemmer House, Owings
Mill, MD, 1989
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed., Hand in Hand: an American
History Through Poetry, ill. by Peter M. Fiore, Simon & Schuster, New
York, NY, 1994.
Spires, Elizabeth, The Mouse of Amherst, Frances
Foster Books,1999
Videos:
The Reluctant Dragon, Walt Disney Co.,
Buena Vista Home Video, Burbank, CA, 1987.
Internet links:
http://members.spree.com/sip/beyondmarty/poetry/plove.htm
A personal site of "poetry of love" and
"poetry of life," a collection of world class poems
http://www.everypoet.com/
Read the poems and reading recommendations, a full-text
archive of classic world poetry, links to a bookstore and other collections.
http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html
Glossary of Poetic Terms from Bob’s Byway
pronunciations, cross references, definitions, examples, links on key words,
poetic quotations, writer’s guide
http://www.poetrysociety.org/
Poetry Society of America
http://www.westfolk.org/
Western Folklife Center: Cowboy Poets on the Internet
http://www.eighthfloor.org/academy/bhenderson/
Unit of Practice on "Who Are the Master Artists?"
constructed for Middle School art
http://www.eighthfloor.org/academy/pmarouk/
Unit of practice on "Mater
Artists" for 5th grade
http://www.eighthfloor.org/academy/lcurtis/
Unit of practice on "Who is the
Greatest Artist?" for elementary
American Poets:
Poet
Poem
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Coatsworth, Elizabeth |
The More It Snows |
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Dickenson, Emily |
I'm Nobody! Who Are You? |
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Field, Rachel |
Something Told the Wild Geese |
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Fisher, Eileen |
Merry Christmas |
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Frost, Robert |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening |
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Hopkins, Lee Bennett |
Girls Can, Too |
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Kuskin, Karla |
A Bug Sat in a Silver Flower |
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Livingston, Myra Cohn |
Mr. Pratt |
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
Hiawatha |
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
Travel |
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Moore, Lilian |
Hey, Bug |
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Nash, Ogden |
The Pizza |
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Poe, Edgar Allen |
The Raven |
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Prelutsky, Jack |
Long Gone |
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Rossetti, Christina |
Hurt No Living Thing |
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Suess, Dr. |
The Cat in the Hat |
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Silverstein, Shel |
Hug O' War |
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Smith, William J. |
The Toaster |
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Stevenson, Robert Lewis |
Happy Thought |
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Viorst, Judith |
Since Hannah Moved Away |
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Whitman, Walt |
I Hear America Singing |
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