There are 15 records in the literature bibliography.
Bibliographic Record |
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Interest Level |
Contributor |
anonymous. Bay Psalm Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Stephen Daye, 1640. |
America's FIRST printed book: the Psalms re-written into English poetry - and to be SUNG! A facsimile of the book may be found FREE on the internet and at this Smithsonian Web site. The Smithsonian also provides a STUDY GUIDE. One can listen to the Psalms SUNG as they were "lined-out" in 1640.
Psalm 100,
Psalm 116,
Psalm 6,
Psalm 128,
Psalm 19,
Psalm 66,
Psalm 115. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
William Prante Researcher New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Burleigh, Robert. Langston's Train Ride. Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins. NY: Orchard Books, 2004. |
This picture book tells the story of Langston Hughes' rise to accomplishing his dream of being a writer. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Collins, Billy, editor. Poetry 180: a Turning Back to Poetry. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003. |
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. POETRY 180 may be found at the internet site for the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html ---Listen to Billy Collins read his own poetry at these internet sites; you will be delighted! ---VIDEO AT HARVARD: http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/ram.php?id=1091&size=hi
---VIDEO AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/bcollins/bcollins.ram
---VIDEO AT A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS: http://pbs-newshour.virage.com/cgi-bin/visearch?user=pbs-newshour&template=play220ram.html&query=%2A&squery=%2BClipID%3A7+%2BVideoAsset%3Apbsnh090602&inputField=%20&ccstart=3112045&ccend=3314547&videoID=pbsnh090602 ---Collins wrote "Names" in honor of 9/11. The poem may be found here: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/names.html
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6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
William Prante Researcher New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Creech, Sharon. Heartbeat. NY: HarperCollins, 2004. |
In this novel in verse, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech tells the story of twelve-year-old Annie as she begins to understand the many rhythms of life and how she fits within them.
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3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. NY: Scholastic Press, 1997. |
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Visit the Learning Page for a lesson plan related to this book. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans. NY: HarperCollins, 1999. |
This collection of poetic portraits features sixteen famous Americans from Paul Revere to Neil Armstrong, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Hudson, Wade. Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans. NY: Scholastic, 2004. |
A collection of speeches and writings by African Americans, with commentary about the time period in which each person lived, information about the speaker/writer, and public response to the words. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade, |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Kerley, Barbara. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Walt Whitman: Words for America. NY: Scholastic Press, 2004. |
This picture book biography tells the story of Walt Whitman, the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Lasky, Kathryn. Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet, A. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2003. |
This biography tells the story of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.
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3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Myers, Walter Dean. Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices. NY: Holiday House, 2004. |
Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. |
6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Myers, Walter Dean. Harlem: a Poem. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997. |
A poem celebrating the people, sounds, and sights of Harlem. This classic children's book is found FREE on the internet: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SaveBook?bookid=myrhrlm_00260006&lang=English
---ALSO at this site: http://bert.cs.umd.edu:8080/fulfill/ebx.etd?action=free&ordersource=icdl&handoff=true&bookid=myrhrlm_00260006&custid=128.8.128. ---A TEACHER'S GUIDE is available here: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cuesheet/pdf/KCHAR.pdf ---An audio-visual reading of HARLEM is found at the KENNEDY CENTER: http://play.rbn.com/?url=kennedy/kennedy/g2demand/harlem.smi&proto=rtsp
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3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
William Prante Researcher New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Niven, Penelope. Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet. Orlando: Harcourt Children's Books, 2004. |
This biography traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Scieszka, John. Illustrated by Lane Smith. Science Verse. NY: Viking, 2004. |
When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Thomas, Joyce Carol. Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: The Brown v. Board of Education Decision. NY: Jump At the Sun, 2003. |
This is a collection of personal reflections, stories and poems of 10 well-known children's authors, who were themselves young people in 1954 when the Supreme Court handed down the decision to desegregate public schools. Their varied experiences and viewpoints offer a window to that period in our history. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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Willard, Nancy. Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem, The. NY: Atheneum Books, 2004. |
Newbery Award winner Nancy Willard retells Milton's narrative poem in a prose adaptation accessible for younger readers. |
6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
Learnng Page Other Library of Congress |
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