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Poetry and
Drama--and Mice!
ELE 616 Readings and Research in Children’s Literature
Fall 2012
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Young Adult Librarian Dewey on poetry
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More Dewey and poetry
What is Poetry?
Poetry Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo)
= I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose. • From an older version of the “Poetry” article in
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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What is poetry?
What is poetry? Poetry really has no one set
definition. Shadow Poetry defines poetry as the art of writing thoughts, ideas, and dreams into imaginative language which can contain verse, pause, meter, repetition, and rhyme.
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How poets have defined it
Here’s how some famous poets define poetry: “The best words in the best order.”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.”• Percy Bysshe Shelley
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry.”• Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”• William Wordsworth
What is poetry?
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A poetical answer
What is Poetry?: A Non-Lecture
What is poetry?Love lie with me, and I will tell.
Poetry a lawless enterprise.Poetry the truth that reveals all lies.Poetry a camera-eye without a shutter.Poetry, unlike armchair philosophy, does not leave the world unchanged.• Selection: What is Poetry?
Rough Draft of an ARS POETICADelivered, on the occasion of his receiving The Frost Medal,by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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12-year old Katie’s thoughts on poetry from True to Form by Elizabeth Berg:
If you see a sunset and try and describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, “Boy, I saw a great sunset last night.” But if you are a poet, you can give it to someone to feel for themselves. Like you make a little seed of what you saw, they swallow it, and it blooms again inside their own heart.
“. . . then there is the scritch scritch of my pen, trying to say something so true. What if it works? Then when I read it again, the little voice inside will say, Yes. Yes. Yes.• From Poetry Thinks . . .
by Kristine O'Connell George
The Poetry Foundation, publisher
of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Poetry Magazine. Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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Sponsored by Poetry Foundation
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Welcome to poetry.org Poetry.org is a resource site for poetry and
poets. Here you can learn about the history, meaning, and types of poetry, as well as terms often used when reading and studying poetry. There is also the resource page: a series of links to various poetry sites for daily poetry, poetry organizations, poet biographies, and more. And there is our selection of poetry from various famous poets, including William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and e e cummings.
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The Academy of American Poets . . .
administers a wide variety of programs, including National Poetry Month (April), the largest literary celebration in the world; online educational resources providing free poetry lesson plans for high school teachers; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of over 700 recordings dating back to the 1960s; and Poets.org, our award-winning website which provides a wealth of content on contemporary American poetry and receives a million unique users each month.
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Other poetry websites16
Poetry For Children
A poet who wrote a load of nonsense
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was…
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A Lear Mouse Limerick18
Shel Silverstein19
The Shel Silverstein Archive
Jack Prelutsky, the nation’s first Children’s Poet Laureate
“Never Poke Your Uncle With a Fork” For years Jack Prelutsky has been known
informally as a poet laureate for kids. Now the Poetry Foundation has made it official, naming him the nation’s first Children’s Poet Laureate and putting a prestigious stamp of approval on the man and his work.
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Mice by Prelutsky22
Poetry lessons23
WritingFix Project: Poetry Lessons & Prompts resources inspired by the NNWP's annual Piñon Poetry Festival
National Poetry Month
What is National Poetry Month?
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Celebrate national Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 26, 2012!
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What’s the use of poetry?Can Poetry Really Change the World?
. . . there are those, including myself, who believe in poets as the antennae of the race, as the conscience of society, or at least as Jack Kerouac said, “the great rememberer redeeming life from darkness.” The greatest poets’ greatest lines have entered mass consciousness, and they are great precisely because they have continued to resonate in our lives today. • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry As News
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What makes good children’s poetry?
Three elements of good children’s poetry: an emphasis on form a not too elaborate grammatical and
narrative complexity a reasonable familiarity and
established place in the language. It’s worth noticing, however, that this
has the harsh consequence that children are unable to write good children’s verse—and we make a mistake when we demand they do so.• J. Bottum, What Children’s Poetry is For
American Educator, Fall 1997.
A Native American Poet
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Poetry by young Native Americans28
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More Dewey and Poetry
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What is a poetry slam, anyway?
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What is Poetry Slam, Inc.? Poetry Slam, Inc. is the official 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization charged with overseeing the international coalition of poetry slams. Though slams are maintained in a growing number of cities by local volunteer organizers, the vast majority of slam series follow the rules established by the governing body, and are certified by the governing body as slams that adhere to the vision slam's founders established for the art form over a decade ago.
What about
Drama?
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What is drama?What is drama?
‘Drama’ is an Ancient Greek word meaning ‘act’ or ‘deed’. The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle used this term in a very influential treatise called the Poetics. In this text, Aristotle classified different forms of poetry according to basic features he thought could be commonly recognised in their composition. He used the term ‘drama’ to describe poetic compositions that were ‘acted’ in front of audiences in a
theatron.
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What about theatre?
What is theatre? Theatre is a living art. Theatre is
storytelling at its most magical. Theatre is reality. Theatre is fantasy. Theatre is the expression of the human condition in its myriad forms throughout history. Theatre is experimentation. Theatre is problem-solving, and Theatre is fun. • BA in Theatre – Major/Minor
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The Purpose of Drama
Why study drama? Through drama you can become
anyone, anywhere, at anytime. By understanding drama you can learn to understand anyone, anywhere anytime. Plays often capture the essence of a culture or a group within that culture. They reveal the attitudes and opinions of their day.•
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Drama in educationWhy can drama lead to successful teaching and
learning? Drama . . . can offer a powerful
stimulus in motivating children to learn as they are operating within a relationship that is human- to- human, rather than one that is human- to- abstract concept. It is this that acts as the lure to draw members of the class in and enables them to see the relevance of the learning• Holden, J. (2002, Summer).
What’s this got to do with maths? Education Review, 15,2
Drama as a motivator37
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A special form of drama
Reader’s theatre Readers Theatre is an oral reading
activity that closely resembles radio drama. Two or more readers stand or sit side by side, usually in a semicircle, holding scripts and reading their parts to portray characters, narration or exposition. Physical movement is minimal. Instead, speech conveys the action. • Readers Theatre by Sam Sebesta
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What Is RT? And How Do You Really Spell It?
There are many styles of reader’s theater, but nearly all share these features: • Narration serves as the framework of
dramatic presentation. • No full stage sets. If used at all, sets are
simple and suggestive. • No full costumes. If used at all, costumes
are partial and suggestive, or neutral and uniform.
• No full memorization. Scripts are used openly in performance – Aaron Shepard
For more reader’s theater, visit Aaron Shepard’s RT Page at www.aaronshep.com/rt
Native American playsPushing Up the Sky: And
Other Native American Plays for Children (2000) A collection of stories by Joseph Bruchac
From acclaimed Native American storyteller Joseph Bruchac comes a collection of seven lively plays for children to perform, each one adapted from a different traditional Native tale.
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Lesson plan ideas with dramaIncluding a mouse! Getting children to start reading at a
young age can be a real challenge. A great way to get elementary-aged children interested in reading is by staging or reading a play.
The Lion & The Mouse Tess is a fearless mouse looking for an adventure. When her quest for an adventure leads her into a lion’s cave, Tess finds herself at the mercy of Balthazar the lion. Rather than eating her for dinner, Balthazar decides to become friends with Tess.
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