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Peer reviewedConnell, Marjorie E. – English Journal, 1990
Describes how a teacher overcame her students' reluctance to write poetry by showing them slides of people, places, and things in their school. Describes how small groups of students brainstormed ideas and wrote simple poems. (RS)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Middle Schools, Photography, Poetry
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2003
Describes a unit that provides opportunities for students to examine the relationship between poetry and pictures as they select published poems, write their own poetry, and take photographs to accompany the poems in an anthology. Describes lesson one on intellectual property and copyright, and lesson two on appreciation. Includes a unit guide and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Copyrights, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
Download full textKent, Jeannette, Ed. – Notes Plus, 1999
This sixteenth volume of "Notes Plus: A Quarterly of Practical Teaching Ideas" contains numerous teaching ideas from English classrooms. Articles in number 1 are: "'Cricket' Contests as Class Exercises" (Rosemary Laughlin); "Body Biography Revisited" (Julie Medow); "Helping Students Keep in Touch" (Joyce Taaffe); "A Love Affair with Letter…
Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking
