McGraw Hill: Best Poems, Introductory Level, Softcover

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-89061-846-2
Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Banish boredom! Excite students with variety—drama, verse, stories, reporting, and more—all at comfortable reading levels - Five genres, each in three levels, let students study a particular kind ofwriting at the appropriate reading level
- Emphasis on reading skills helps students who have difficulty with atraditional literature anthology
- Integration of reading and writing encourages students to study howauthors construct their works and then to try to emulate stylistic elements
Rescue bored readers by introducing them to the many exciting forms ofliterature. The Best series collects superb nonfiction, play scripts, poetry,short stories, and stand-alone chapters of longer works, so you can quicklyfind well-crafted selections that reflect student interests. Best of all, we’vetailored the series to three reading levels, making it the perfect tool forreaching out to students of any ability who aren’t succeeding with moretraditional anthologies. - Introductory: Reading Level 5-6, Interest Level 6-8
- Middle: Reading Level 7-8, Interest Level 6-10
- Advanced: Reading Level 9-12, Interest Level 9-12

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgraw-Hill Education, N/A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Best PoemsIntroductory
Unit 1, What is a Poem?Summons by Robert FrancisAn Announcement by Mary LongLook at Me by Peg HoddinottWestern Wagons by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent BenétLegacies by Nikki GiovanniPure Poetry by Gerard MalangaWrite About a Radish by Karla KuskinYour World by Georgia Douglas JohnsonYour Poem, Man. by Edward Lueders
Unit 2, Voices in PoetryThe Windmill by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Builders by Sara Henderson HayTo Satch by Samuel AllenOranges by Gary SotoOranges by Jean LittleArgument by Eve MerriamThere Is No Word for Goodbye by Mary TallMountainThe Glove and the Lions by Leigh HuntDorlan's Home-Walk by Arthur GuitermanThe Stone by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Unit 3, Sensory Images and Concrete LanguageMy Mother Pieced Quilts by Teresa Palomo AcostaThat Was Summer by Marci RidlonDaybreak in Alabama by Langston HughesVacant House by Jeanne DeLamarter BonnetteIn Winter by Robert WallaceThe Tom-Cat by Don MarquisGirl with 'Cello by May Sarton
Unit 4, Sounds in PoetryIndians by Ophelia RivasCrossing by Philip BoothAnnabel Lee by Edgar Allen PoeBears by Alfred GuitermanThe Shark by John CiardiWilbur Wright and Orville Wright by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent BenétWe Real Cool by Gwendolyn BrooksThe Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel LindsaySea Fever by John MasefieldA Legend of Paul Bunyan by Arthur S. Bourinot
Unit 5, Figurative LanguagePrimer Lesson by Carl SandburgLike Bookends by Eve MerriamWords by Pauli Murraysun by Valerie WorthCumulus Clouds by Sheryl L. NelmsIn the Waiting Room by Charles ReznikoffSong for a Surf-Rider by Sara Van Alstyne AllenWhirlwind Is a Ghost Dancing a Dakota Poem retold by Natalia BeltingSunset by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Unit 6, Form in PoetryWhen I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt WhitmanThe Skater of Ghost Lake by William Rose BenétWhile I Slept by Robert FrancisThe Months by Christina RossettiMoon by Myra Cohn LivingstonTwo Haiku by Soseki, by KyoraiLimericks by Anonymous
Unit 7, Author's PurposeHands by Robinson JeffersAncestors by Dudley RandallAnd They Lived Happily Ever After for a While by John CiardiAlmost Perfect by Shel SilversteinTo My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne BradstreetI Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young LeeThe Right Kind of People by Edwin MarkhamThe Giveaway by Phyllis McGinley

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