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The Norton Introduction to Poetry 9e

eMedia & Ancillaries for Instructors

Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes

Allan J. Gedalof, University of Western Ontario
ISBN-10: 0-393-92582-X • ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92582-1 • paper • 75 pages

Informed by Professor Gedalof’s considerable poetry-teaching experience, this practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises designed to enliven classroom discussion. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation. Free to adopters.

Instructor’s Manual

Barbara Bird, St. Petersburg College
Linda Yakle, St. Petersburg College
Kelly Hager, Simmons College
Kelly J. Mays, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

This thorough guide offers discussions of nearly every poem in the anthology as well as advice for instructors who teach writing through literature.