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Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes
Allan J. Gedalof, University of Western Ontario
0-393-92582-X • paper • 75 pages
Imaginative and practical, this guide by a master poetry teacher and mentor to young teachers presents innovative methods of bringing poetry to life through class exercises. With a wide variety of exercises—all tested in Professor Gedalof’s classroom—centered on performance and question and discussion, Teaching Poetry is a handy resource for ideas for structuring a poetry class. Free to adopters.
Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Tyler Hoffman, Rutgers University—Camden
An invaluable tool for constructing syllabi, the Guide offers extensive poem groupings under three major rubrics:
- "Components" suggests groupings that explore versification, form, figuration and rhetoric
- "Traditions and Counter-Traditions" groups poems by context: influence and intertextuality, myth, gender, ethnicity, and nationality
- "Topics" offers dozens of thematic clusters, including seasons, youth and age, home and family, work, and war.
The Course Guide also includes useful suggestions for exercises and classroom discussion. A customizable version of the Guide content is available at the The Norton Resource Library.
Norton Resource Library
The Norton Resource Library (URL) includes the Instructor's Course Guide and Teaching Poetry in downloadable format. It also includes PDF files of the Essay on Versification and the Essay on Syntax.
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