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ERIC Number: EJ422730
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
The Dark within Us All: Stephen Dobyns'"Bleeder" (Modern Poetry in the Classroom).
Vogel, Mark; Tilley, Janet
English Journal, v80 n3 p47-50 Mar 1991
Illustrates the power of responsive teaching and how one teacher used a modern poem about cruelty to address a recent incident of her own students' cruelty to a classmate. Notes that the class responded with compassion, tolerance, and a sense of caring for those who are different. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Junior High Schools, Poetry, Student Reaction, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conversation; Writing Development; Writing Models