Shelley Savren

The Forms of Things Unknown (eBook, PDF)

Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A college student writes: "These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets."

An inmate in a maximum-security men's prison writes: "Within my writing, I am able to break down my prison walls and escape, leave the gangster façade behind."

The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults draws from Shelley Savren's forty years of teaching poetry writing to a diverse array of students, from teens with mental health issues to seniors to adults with developmental disabilities, and in a wide variety of settings, which include middle schools, high schools, colleges, juvenile halls, women's centers, and a men's prison.

Each chapter includes an original poem from Savren, heartfelt stories, and lesson plans that introduce poetic concepts through model poems by professionals, open-ended writing assignments, methods for sharing and critiquing, and student poems. Designed for use in a classroom or community setting, this book features forty-one lesson plans and nineteen more poetry-writing workshop ideas and provides guidance and inspiration for teaching poetry writing to teens and adults.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216303671
• Artikelnr.: 74626999

Autorenporträt

Shelley Savren is the author of two poetry books, The Common Fire (Red Hen Press 2004) and The Wild Shine of Oranges (Tebot Bach Press 2013), and Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). She is an English professor emeritus at Oxnard College and has been teaching poetry writing for the past forty years. Visit her at www.shelleysavren.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1:
Getting Serious about Poems: Middle School and High School Chapter 2: Can
Words Save Me? Teens with Mental Health Issues Chapter 3: Does Anybody Love
Me? Juvenile Justice Part I: Girls' Rehabilitation Facility Part II:
Colston Youth Center Chapter 4: Poetry in Academia Chapter 5: I Remember:
Cedar Community Center for Senior Citizens Chapter 6: Every Bird Can Sing:
St. Madeline Sophie's Training Center Chapter 7: The Feminist Poet: Women
Take Back Words Chapter 8: Freedom Journey: R.J. Donovan Maximum Security
Men's Prison Appendix: Additional Exercise Ideas Resources About the Author