Teaching Poetry in High School

By Albert B. Somers

Book Overview

Albert Somers offers teachers a vast compendium of resources for teaching poetry in a highly accessible format.

If you were teaching poetry in high school, which poems would you select? Those you studied in first-year English because they were "classics"? Would you teach form and technique? What about rap? Albert Somers answers these and other questions, offering the teacher a vast compendium of resources in a highly accessible format. The book also offers over 40 complete poems, a discussion of assessment issues, poetry across the curriculum, and poetry on the Internet. A comprehensive resource for teachers, this book presents practical ideas and myriad ways for teachers and students to discover the joys of poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814152899
• ISBN13: 9780814152898
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12