April 12, 2005

• "Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears" (E)
  Read this Language Arts article for details on a poetry project in which students read and perform poems, then write and perform their own poems for two voices.
  
  
• "Audience and Revision: Middle Schoolers Slam Poetry" (M)
  See how a poetry "slam" (a contest in which people read their original poems and listeners cast votes for their favorites) made vivid for students the need to write for an audience and to revise, as outlined in this Voices from the Middle article.
  
  
• "Performance: Beyond the Boundaries" (M-S)
  Check out Chapter 12 of the new NCTE book Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom, to find poetry exercises that go beyond the walls of academic disciplines and then suggest ways of organizing public performances that take students beyond the walls of the school as well.
  
  
• "Out Loud: The Common Language of Poetry" (S)
  Lead students back to the written poem with a renewed sense of connection and understanding with this secondary workshop on slam poetry, from English Journal.
  
  
• "Using Performance as an Interpretative Strategy in Teaching Robert Browning’s 'My Last Duchess'" (C)
  Use role-playing, dramatic monologues, and tableaux vivant to interpret Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" in a literature class, as explained in this Teaching English in the Two-Year College article.

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Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).