ERIC Number: EJ751588
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Publication Date: 2006-Sep
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What One Activity Would You Recommend to Teachers Who are Nervous about Teaching Poetry?
Johnson, Walter H.; Sottile, Joseph; Witting, Charlotte R.
English Journal, v96 n1 p23-24 Sep 2006
In this brief column, three teachers submit recommendations on strategies and activities for teaching poetry. Walter H. Johnson suggests that using sonnets as an introduction to poetry can be a rewarding way to combine poetry terminology, a bit of literary history, and the search for meaning in poems. Joseph Sottile describes a classroom activity that has students write four true statements and four untruthful statements on strips of paper. Charlotte Witting suggests an activity using "old" songs and "modern" songs to illustrate poetic terminology.
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