This volume contains five essays on the uses of poetry and one poem by elementary and secondary teachers involved in a project to encourage teachers to develop the habit of scholarship as the basis for their teaching. In the first essay, "Female Poets of the First World War: A Study in Diversity for the Fifth Grade Social Studies Curriculum," Randy Cummings explains this little known body of poetry and demonstrates how to use it in the classroom. In "Ghosts Among Us/Ancestral Voices: 'What's Past is Prologue'" Terry Moreland Henderson draws on Foxfire oral history techniques to elicit a spectrum of oral histories from the diverse backgrounds of her Los Angeles (California) students. In "Poetry from the Far Side" Phyllis B. Schwartz uses a cartoon about adolescence in different species--a parallel to the differing ethnic and cultural backgrounds in many schools--to evoke poetry from students who denied interest in poetry and in sharing emotions in the classroom. "Sestina for a Grande Dame" by Fredric Lown is a poem, a memoir of Lown's grandmother. In "The Overwhelming Question: Integrating the ACLS Curriculum Project, 'Teaching for Understanding,' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,'" Joan Soble describes show teaching and relationships enrich her understanding of the traditional curriculum. In "A Matter of Trust" Richard Young analyzes "truth" in the writings of Robert Lowell, Alex Haley, and Malcolm X. (Most essays contain references.) (JB)