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Promotion Of Critical And Creative Thinking Skills Through The Teaching Of Poetry, Maura H. Albert May 1985

Promotion Of Critical And Creative Thinking Skills Through The Teaching Of Poetry, Maura H. Albert

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

This curriculum project has developed gradually over the past fourteen years during which time I have been teaching in the public elementary schools. I have always loved poetry; therefore it seemed natural to make the reading of poetry a standard part of my curriculum even in my first years of teaching. As the years went by and my own increasing enjoyment in reading poetry was coupled with and encouraged by the positive reactions of the children I taught, it seemed only natural not only to read more poetry in the classroom, but, also, to begin to do some exploration of …


In A Land Of Plenty: A Don West Reader, Don West, Constance Adams West Jan 1985

In A Land Of Plenty: A Don West Reader, Don West, Constance Adams West

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Rooted in a particular place, the South and especially the Appalachian hills; in a long time, with poems dating from as early as 1932 and as late as 1981; and in the wide experience of a man who has been a farmer, lineman, preacher, organizer, deck hand, professor, and journalist. Land of Plenty is about America over the last half a century. It is about miners, freedom, racism, sharecroppers, family, love, loss, the South, laughter, labor, hunger, and heroism...Constance Adams West's spare illustrations make Land of Plenty still more beautiful." -Dave Roediger, Dept. of History, Northwestern U.


The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University Jan 1985

The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird

Alice Anthony [Photograph]; Sarah K. Davis [The Deesel Smell Expeerment]; Alan Davy [fgf jhj; A few thoughts on Chivalry]; John Edwards [Two Untitled Artworks]; Tim Foster [Coonhunting]; Rick Gordon [Araucians]; Jennifer Jessee [Drawing]; Brian Knave [Stars and Gripes; Plantbones; Ode on Grecian Formula; Burnt Offerings to the Sunset Goddess]; Catherine Romaine [Untitled Poem]; Kim Rushing [Two Photographs]; Christine Russell [Two Songs to be Sung at Midnight (Without Accompaniment); The Manatee]; Keith Rutherford [Two Drawings]; Charles Sheffey [Photograph]; Nicholas Smith [Flute; Neighborhood; Plowing]; Becky Wallace [Photograph]; Mark Wood [Five Photographs; Untitled Artwork]


Parnassus 1985 Jan 1985

Parnassus 1985

Parnassus

The 1985 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.