Wordplaygrounds - O'Connor, John S.
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O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons. John S. O'Connor offers exciting new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms with more than 25 high-interest activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around them. In the process, he demystifies poetry for teachers and students by using students' own life experiences as the basis for all student writing. The…mehr

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O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons. John S. O'Connor offers exciting new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms with more than 25 high-interest activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around them. In the process, he demystifies poetry for teachers and students by using students' own life experiences as the basis for all student writing. The activities can constitute an entire course in poetry writing or work as individual lessons, depending on the teacher's classroom goals. Early lessons start out with simple lists and wordplay; later lessons involve more complicated forms and subjects. Throughout the book, however, the emphasis is on fun and making sure that every student succeeds. In all, O'Connor provides an impressive number of poetry models-more than 30 professional models and more than 80 models from students in his own classroom. Students will also learn how to dramatize poems, creating special effects in performance, both in the classroom and beyond the walls of the school. Wordplaygrounds shows how students can move beyond the traditional boundaries of English curricula, interpreting poetry through a variety of media, including music, art, and dance-without special talent and training in these areas.
Autorenporträt
John S. O'Connor has an AB in philosophy and English and an MAT (English) from the University of Chicago and has taught English for the past eighteen years in a wide variety of settings (public, parochial, independent, alternative schools; a maximum security prison; an adult literacy agency) and at every level from sixth grade to college, including three years at Penn State University and ten at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. He currently teaches at New Trier High School outside of Chicago. O'Connor has written on English and interdisciplinary education in periodicals such as English Journal, Shakespeare, and OAH Magazine of History and has presented at local and national conferences. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Rhino, Penumbra, and Frogpond and in Room Full of Chairs, a book of haiku. O'Connor is also a folksinger and has set poems of well-known poets to music on a CD titled Evenings and Other Beginnings. He has performed at the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Phoenix Writers Workshop, and many other arts festivals and libraries, and his music has been featured on WBEZ radio and on the WLS Sunday morning television program.