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Get A Grip!. Pictures, Poetry, & Prose by Hope Krum, Bowie Librarian and Mary Boyd, MacArthur Librarian. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Poetry wasn’t trying to get us to DO anything, it was simply inviting us to THINK , and FEEL , and SEE .”.
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Get A Grip! Pictures, Poetry, & Prose by Hope Krum, Bowie Librarian and Mary Boyd, MacArthur Librarian
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Poetry wasn’t trying to get us to DO anything, it was simply inviting us to THINK, and FEEL, and SEE.” Poetry-Poetry Aloud Here!/Sylvia Vardell, p.3
Poetry-Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse/Marilyn Singer
Verse Reversible Reversible Verse • Fairytales written • Up and down • Back and front • Characters good and bad • Reversed • Poetry unveiled • Unveiled poetry • Reversed • Bad and good characters • Front and back • Down and up • Written fairytales
Poetry-More Than Friends: Poems From Him and Her/Sara Holbrook and Alan Wolf
Sijo Boston Tea Party Line 1-one sentence 7-8 syllables (single idea) Line 2-one sentence 7-8 syllables (tells more about topic Line 3-one sentence-7-8 syllables Line 4-gives details about line 3- 7-8 syllables Line 5- Write a sentence that goes in the opposite direction of first 4 lines Line 6- Finish idea in line 5 with surprise, twist, or pun • Boston Party Celebration • Taxation-Representation • No tea please! Justice is served. • Overboard in the ocean • Cry Conflict resolution? • Let’s talk at Starbucks instead. Poetry-Tap Dancing on the Roof
“in academically rigorous literature classes students read challenging texts: classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, poetry and drama. Students learn how to interpret analyze, and evaluate what they read.” • Carol Jago- incoming president of the National Council of Teachers of English Drama
Fiction-Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villanous Tales/ ed. Ellen Datrow
Children's literature professor Barbara Elleman says, • "Short enough to read aloud in one sitting, picture books are ideal to stimulate classroom discussion; often filled with lyrical prose, they make good writing models; multilayered in story and content, they work in numerous connections across the classroom; and, containing a wealth of art styles and mediums, they offer rich aesthetic opportunities." Whitehurst, Lucinda. School Library Journal, Oct2000, Vol. 46 Issue 10, p38, 2p
Fiction-Cat Diaries: Secrets of the MEOW Society/Betsy Byars
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction • Describe the structural and substantive difference between an autobiography or a diary and a fictional adaptation of it. Fictional Adaptation of Literary Nonfiction
Fictional Adaptation-Otto-The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear/TomiUngerer
Fictional Adaptation-Ron’s Big Mission/Rose Blue & Corrine Naden
Fictional Adaptation-Eight Days: A Story of Haiti/EdwidgeDandicat
Literary Nonfiction-BiographyYou Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?/Jonah Winter
Literary Nonfiction-Biography A Picture Book of John and Abigail Adams
Literary Nonfiction-Biblioburro-A True Story From Columbia/Jeanette Winter
Literary Nonfiction-Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson/Charles R. Smith