Text Structures from Poetry, Grades 4-12 : Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- LESSONS -- Contemporary Poems -- 1. Kelli Russell Agodon Love Waltz With Fireworks -- 2. Sarah Anderson At the Lake -- 3. Jimmy Santiago Baca I Am Offering This Poem -- 4. Sheila Black Possums -- 5. Joe Brainard I Remember (Excerpt) -- 6. Joanne Diaz My Mother's Tortilla -- 7. Vievee Francis Still Life With Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood -- 8. Ann Hudson Chorus, Venable Elementary -- 9. August Kleinzahler Snow in North Jersey -- 10. Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Draw -- 11. Nathan McClain Nighthawks by Edward Hopper -- 12. Rose McLarney Full Capacity -- 13. Naomi Shihab Nye Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things -- 14. Matthew Olzmann Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed Into a Bar of Chocolate -- 15. Octavio Quintanilla Parting -- 16. Leslie Contreras Schwartz The Falcon -- 17. Patricia Smith Fixing on the Next Star -- 18. Angela Narciso Torres What I Learned This Week -- 19. Natalia Treviño Maria -- 20. Laura Van Prooyen On the Shoreline -- 21. Laura Van Prooyen As Always, Thirty Years Between Us -- 22. Laura Van Prooyen Postcard From Texas -- 23. Laura Van Prooyen One of Those Days -- 24. Laura Van Prooyen She Inherits His Steady Hand -- Classic Poems -- 25. Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book -- 26. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways -- 27. Robert Browning My Last Duchess -- 28. Robert Burns To a Mouse -- 29. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Regret -- 30. Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died -- 31. John Donne The Flea -- 32. Paul Lawrence Dunbar A Musical -- 33. T.S. Eliot Preludes (Excerpt) -- 34. Robert Frost Fire and Ice -- 35. Frances Ellen Harper Learning to Read -- 36. Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides -- 37. Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty -- 38. A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty.

39. Marianne Moore A Jelly-Fish -- 40. Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est -- 41. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven -- 42. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man (Excerpt) -- 43. Alexander Posey On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900 -- 44. Carl Sandburg Grass -- 45. William Shakespeare Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun -- 46. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias -- 47. Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -- 48. Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing -- 49. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud -- 50. William Butler Yeats When You Are Old -- Appendices -- 1. Complete Collection of 50 Text Structures -- 2. Glossary: Fixed Forms -- 3. Glossary: Meter -- 4. Glossary: Rhyme -- 5. Positive Points for Potential Poets by Patricia S. Gray -- 6. How Can I Improve My Poem? (Plus Bonus Notes From Laura) -- 7. Journal Page: Metaphor -- 8. Journal Page: Pitchfork -- 9. Journal Page: Personification -- 10. Journal Page: Truism -- 11. Journal Page: Verbs -- 12. Journal Page: Visual Image -- 13. Reading Lenses and STAAR Stem Questions -- 14. Meet the Contemporary Authors: Author Fun Facts.

Ignite a love of poetry in students using the magic of poems themselves "Pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work by using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. Fifty unique and engaging lessons each include a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Identify how the parts of a poem relate to each other to create movement and soon your students will be writing their own evocative poems.

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