Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Assignment #4
Recent discussions and readings have centered around fluency and the impact it has on student achievement. One strategy the FLaRE professional paper recommended for improving fluency is the incorporation of poetry. Choose a piece of poetry that can incorporated into your classroom instruction. Post the author and title of your chosen selelction and briefly explain why it was selected. Be sure to bring a copy of the poem to our next meeting - Tuesday, February 19th.
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"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. He's a Harlem Renaissance poet, and I'll save the explanation for class.
The poem that I chose is called "The Little, Little Man". The author is Unknown. I used this poem in my class when I was teaching synonyms. The kids love it.
The poem I chose was "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, I have used this poem in my class and the kids really like it.
When I teach the Renaissance in World History, I like to use a variety of primary sources that help students understand the period. Petrarch's "Sonnet 24: To Laura in Death" is great example of the focus of humanism. In addition, the figurative language is pretty easily understood by most students. The girls love this love poem, and the guys love to hate it.
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