Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry

Materials for Vivian Johnson's Poetry Lesson

Featured Quotation

• Mary Oliver (from A Poetry Handbook, Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 1995, ISBN: 0156724006) (pdf)

Conference Sheets

• Preparation for Poetry Conference (a form the writer completes) (pdf)
• Conference Sheet (a form with sections for both writer and reviewer) (pdf)

Additional Classroom Materials

• Sample quotations posted on the walls inside and outside of Vivian's classroom (pdf)
• Instructions for poetry reads (pdf)
• Rubric for poetry anthology (pdf)
• Reflections on poetry unit (pdf)
• Rubrics for individual poems (pdf)
• Scoring guide for published poems (pdf)

Sources for Quotations in the Student Packet

• Atwell, Nancie. Lessons That Change Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. ISBN: 0867095067
• Heard, Georgia. For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1989. ISBN: 043508495X
• Hewitt, Geof. Today You Are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems With Teenagers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998. ISBN: 0867094524
• Janeczko, Paul. Favorite Poetry Lessons. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1999. ISBN: 0590006185
• Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 1995. ISBN: 0156724006

Poems Included in the Student Packet

• "Foul Shot" by Edwin A. Hoey (from Jerry George, Don Stone, and Faye Ward, On Common Ground, Book 3, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press/Canada, 1994, ISBN: 0-19-541020-3)
• "Dreams" by Langston Hughes (from The Dream Keeper, New York: Knopf, 1996, ISBN: 0679883479)
• "Owl Pellets" by Ralph Fletcher (from I Am Wings: Poems About Love, New York: Atheneum, 1994, ASIN: 0027353958)
• "postcard from cape cod" by Linda Pastan (from Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998, New York: Norton, W.W. and Company, Inc., 1999, ISBN: 039331927X)
• "Sam, the Shoe Shop Man" by Cynthia Rylant (from Waiting To Waltz: A Childhood, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. ISBN: 0027780007)
• "The Tree" by Molly Jordan (reprinted in Nancie Atwell's Lessons That Change Writers)
• "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks (from Selected Poems, New York: Perennial, 1999, ISBN: 0060931744)