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Download full textDiscovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 2002
Based on cowboy poetry and songs, this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Old West cowboys produced a category of literature, people still write cowboy poetry, and cowboy poetry or songs have certain characteristics. The main activity in the lesson involves students in analyzing a classic of cowboy literature…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Lesson Plans
Seeley, Virginia, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This textbook contains five units of literature by the Plains Native Americans. The first unit presents examples of oral tradition, in which mythology, legends, stories, songs, and personal accounts pass on values, beliefs, and experiences. The second unit contains nonfiction: an account of a young girl's first days at an Indian boarding school,…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Cultural Education
2002
The Bedouins of ancient Arabia and Persia made poetry a conversational art form, and several poetic forms developed from the participatory nature of tribal poetry. Today in most Arab cultures, people may still experience public storytelling and spontaneous poetry challenges in the streets. The art of turning a rhyme into sly verbal sparring is…
Descriptors: Arabic, Class Activities, Cultural Context, Curriculum Enrichment
