Sentences with phrase «students through poetry»

I've learned more about some of my students through poetry than I would have otherwise learned.

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When I teach poetry to my students, I ask them constantly to search the poem for moments of «self - demonstration,» where the poet has been able to convey meaning through phrases or structures that demonstrate the very idea they describe.

Translated into social theory by John Dewey and Horace Kallen (James's student), poetry by Wallace Stevens (another James student), social science by George Herbert Mead, semiotics by Charles Morris (a Mead student), and jurisprudence by Oliver Wendell Holmes — not to mention the philosophy of F. C. S. Schiller, Sidney Hook (a Dewey student), C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine (a student of Lewis), and many others up to and beyond Richard Rorty — pragmatism swept through the universities.

Not every student in our nation will need to express him - or herself through poetry, but for those who do, learning about the poets who came before them and learning to find their own poetic voice will stand out as a beacon of self - expression in a sea of core subjects.

Shareski believes that storytelling is the most important skill students learn through the video poetry project.

African American History Through the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, andThrough the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, andthrough the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, and dance.

Global Writes, a Bronx - based nonprofit, helps students reach new heights in literacy and life through live poetry competitions.

Poetry: Almost everything a student needs to know about reading and writing can be taught through poetry.

Teachers critically explore student learning through projects in poetry, science, mathematics, history, spelling, or any other part of the curriculum.

A network of 16 center - based teachers and family childcare providers worked with their young students to create the book which includes drawings, poetry, and descriptions of places to visit in the city as seen through the eyes of three -, four -, and five - year - olds.

After painstakingly working through the criterion on the rubric, discussing what each might look like and clarifying unfamiliar words, my students were no clearer about the expectations of the poetry recital assessment.

Encourage students to use their own words — and their first language, if they are English language learners — to express themselves through the poetry.

Many students lose a love for poetry — or never find that love to begin with — when they encounter poems only through analysis.

Teaching Matters consultants help teachers guide students through multi-week units on various types of writing: memoir, poetry, book reviews, editorial, and fiction.

Through a rich mix of essays, memoir, and poetry, the contributors describe the schooling experiences of poor and working class students, highlighting the resiliency, creativity, and educational aspirations of low - income families.

This priority suggestion on how students may explain is focused on activities that ask students to tell a story that integrates the term; students can choose to explain or to tell a story is through poetry.

Wright recognized that the students at Whitney M. Young School in Cleveland could strengthen their writing and reading skills through a poetry night.

-- Performance Poetry Engages Students — Global Writes, a Bronx - based nonprofit, helps students reach new heights in literacy and life through live poetry compeStudents — Global Writes, a Bronx - based nonprofit, helps students reach new heights in literacy and life through live poetry compestudents reach new heights in literacy and life through live poetry competitions.

This lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti through poetry, photography, and music.

The third video is also from Teaching Channel, and shows how using technology in the classroom through a poetry open mike can allow for student expression and building language: https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/poetry-lesson-plan

Poetry Out Loud is a national initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation that encourages students in grades 9 - 12 to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.

After studying the Revolutionary War through the novel, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, fifth grade students collaborated in groups and chose from a project «menu» of arts - integrated options, including drama, poetry, illustration, and even stand - up comedy, to convey their understanding of events.

Students have the opportunity to work with Teaching Artists and experience the beauty and diversity of the world through its art, music, dance, poetry, literature.

Teachers of gifted writers may encourage the development of advanced writing skills through writing competitions, production in public venues, or staging of a student's original writing through drama, poetry readings, mentorships with local writers or other writing experts, or in - class response groups comprised of classmates with similar advanced writing abilities.

Second grade students are pushed to become more experienced readers through increased exposure to fiction, poetry, and informational text.

This Common Core - aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.

Written by more than 120 freshman English students at Los Gatos High, Windows to the Teenage Soul is an an electronic poetry anthology — an Ebook — available worldwide through Smashwords, on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, KOBO and Apple's iBook store.

With first - graders, we shift slightly to guide students in understanding how poets express feelings in poetry and appeal to the senses through language.

These poetry memoirs and related activities can draw students into language - arts learning through compelling life stories.

I was a second - year student at Columbia then, a know - nothing boy with an appetite for books and a belief (or delusion) that one day I would become good enough to call myself a poet, and because I read poetry, I had already met his namesake in Dante's hell, a dead man shuffling through the final verses of the twenty - eighth canto of the Inferno.

I remember one of our students being sucked into a poetry competition she had heard of through a spam email.

This program features workshops and craft courses in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; faculty dedicated to teaching and one - on - one mentoring; full funding and tuition waiver for all students through GTA / GRA positions; a wide range of internship opportunities; a vibrant Visiting Writers Series; and a student - run literary magazine.

Élan They accept original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screen writing, plays and visual art from students in grades 9 through 12.

High school students participating in the Pages program visit the Wexner Center at least three times during the school year, to experience visual arts, performing arts, and film projects, and to develop their own responses through poetry, prose, and art work.

Develop students» creative writing skills through poetry, daily writings and poster projects.