One Poetry Teacher's Life (Brian Miller Series)

By Paul Deangelis

(This is a work of fiction. Though drawn from my experiences as a teacher, it presents the perceptions and observations of the narrator, Brian Miller.) Welcome to My Life as a Poetry Teacher, a fictionalized account of one person's experiences in the Poetry classroom. While it is not intended to be a teacher's guide, in addition to being an enjoyable read (one hopes), there are various scenarios presented of how one teacher personalized the everyday aspects of the classroom and attempted to conjoin with his students through the medium of poetry. The first few chapters are technical for the most part, establishing some basic elements of poetry, and a rapport between teacher and student. But in Chapter 4 the student-journal is introduced, which opens a one-on-one dialogue between teacher and student. The give-and-take becomes personal, and the students and the teacher begin to reveal themselves. (I have not attempted to reproduce student's spelling or grammatical errors, etc., but the words are all theirs.) It is important to remember that although journal entries are given at the end of a session, the students actually wrote these entries before classroom discussion of the poems. Brian Miller Series: 1. "Notes from under the Skin"-Asperger's; 2. "One Teacher's Life"-Tesserae; 3. "One Poetry Teacher's Life"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521512205
• ISBN13: 9781521512203
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"