Poetry

Simone Davis (Monday) - Teaching Poetry as a Performance - the political, social, and emotional space

Katherine Narraway (Monday) - Teaching Students to be Poets

Ali Rushon (Wednesday) - Contemporary Music as a Gateway to Poetry Overview: The main focus is teaching poetry through rap and hip-hop literacy. The wiki acts as an interactive resources for teachers to explore theoretical issues and challenges, lesson plans and unit plans, and assessment and evaluation examples regarding contemporary music and poetry. The intended audience of the page is teachers of English Language Arts, grades 7-10, however, if it reaches others as a teaching resource that is wonderful, too!

Kyle Green (Wednesday) - Contemporary Canadian Poetry; style and structure, limits of language, language as game, language and bilingualism in Canadian poetry