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Peer reviewedAmole, Irene O.; Worrest, Henry N. – Catalyst for Change, 1980
Describes a program that attempted to increase sensory awareness and thus to improve attitudes toward poetry and inspire students to write their own poems. (JM)
Descriptors: Grade 10, High Schools, Imagery, Poetry
Peer reviewedDraayer, Ken – English Quarterly, 1998
Describes the gradual breakthroughs and the classroom procedures in one teacher's efforts to find a pedagogy for poetry that would side-step or eliminate the need for a direct assault on meaning. Discusses the complex first response to poems. Uses visual art to encourage looking and seeing over judging, and reporting over interpretation. (PA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Grade 10, High Schools
Moyer, Jane P. – 1980
This four-week poetry unit, geared to ninth and tenth graders, contains plans for 20 days of lessons and activities designed to capture the students' interest and expose them to a wide variety of poems. The characteristics of poetry and the techniques used by poets are emphasized in the unit. Six general objectives are listed followed by an…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grade 9, High Schools, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedScimone, Anthony J. – English Journal, 1999
Describes the success of a unit for tenth-grade students wherein they created a book of poetry. Provides guidelines for the unit and evaluation criteria. Claims the "books" turned out to be far superior to the "flat pro forma" poetry papers assigned in the past. (NH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 10, High Schools, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedMeeks, Lynn Langer – English Journal, 1999
Outlines a set of conditions in which literacy learning is more likely to occur, based on Brian Cambourne's theory of literacy learning defining eight "conditions for learning." Defines each of these learning conditions, gives examples of them in the real world, and offers examples of what each condition for learning looks like in a 10th-grade…
Descriptors: Course Organization, English Instruction, Grade 10, High Schools
Peer reviewedAltmann, Anna; Johnston, Ingrid; Mackey, Margaret – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
A survey of 21 of the 22 public and Catholic schools in Edmonton (Alberta) examined materials used in 10th-grade English classes. Teachers cited 1,698 titles, but a small number of titles predominated the lists, suggesting a clearcut "school canon." Includes discussion and tables of the most frequently cited novels, plays, films, short…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Curriculum Research, Drama, English Curriculum
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
This collection is composed of objectives and evaluation items in poetry, novel, short story, drama, and essay for Senior High, Grades 10-12. Each objective contains four elements: (1) the objective, (2) measurement items, (3) means for judging the adequacy of the student response, and (4) an IOX (Instructional Objectives Exchange) acceptability…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dramatics, Educational Objectives
