Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h4F3G9C05584; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <002b01c31a8d$727fe0c0$07160143@6912cck4d337> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "olivia durham" <odurham@integrity.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8975] Re: ERIC Digest on using poetry X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2033 Lines: 68 Oh do try some poetry. I used the lessons I got off this list this semester (modeling on Langston Hughes...Good morning poem, etc.) and got some of the most moving, lovely poems from my intro to comp. class. Most of them had never read English poetry before. It gave them so much confidence to know they had written poetry in English! And they come up with such creative wordings (i.e. 'spider nets' for spider webs). Plus, I can't really argue with their punctuation, so that's freeing. In their evals, that was the thing they most commented on. We had a poetry contest and almost everyone submitted one. Here is a very simple poem anyone could start with. (from memory, so it may not be perfectly quoted. Emily Dickinson A Word A word is dead When it is said Some say I say It just begins to live that day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Keenan" <fkeenan@pbs.org> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8972] ERIC Digest on using poetry > > There is an ERIC Digest on using poetry in adult ESL classrooms. > > http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/Poetry.htm > > > Fran Keenan > PBS Adult Learning Service > fkeenan@pbs.org > www.pbs.org/literacy/esl > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > Give them words to grow by. > Share a story with a child in your life today. > pbskids.org/shareastory > _________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________ > > This email may contain material that is confidential or proprietary to PBS and is intended solely for use by the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or distribution of such material by others, or forwarding of such material without express permission, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies. > __________________________________________________________________ > > > >
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