Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive - Ambler, Andrea Louise
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Keeping an Interest in Teaching and Writing Poetry For Classroom Teachers and Home-Schooling Parents "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive" shows how to develop and encourage the love of poetry, including strategies for teaching it, and suggestions for making poetry a meaningful part of a student's life. It is a practical, easy-to-follow, field-tested guide for teachers to use at all grade levels and for all abilities, and gives teachers and home-schooling parents techniques for teaching poetry to their students. Chapters offer purposes, detailed biographical information, specific poetic structures,…mehr

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Keeping an Interest in Teaching and Writing Poetry For Classroom Teachers and Home-Schooling Parents "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive" shows how to develop and encourage the love of poetry, including strategies for teaching it, and suggestions for making poetry a meaningful part of a student's life. It is a practical, easy-to-follow, field-tested guide for teachers to use at all grade levels and for all abilities, and gives teachers and home-schooling parents techniques for teaching poetry to their students. Chapters offer purposes, detailed biographical information, specific poetic structures, and classroom student tasks. Each lesson is illustrated with examples of original student poems. There is a Resource List, Bibliography, and Glossary of Literary Terms. A final student activity includes directions for making an anthology of their poems. "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive" is the third book in a three-volume series. Other books in the series are: "Igniting the Poetry Flame" and "Stoking the Poetry Flame" The series seeks to ignite and invigorate the creative poetic spark in students. Each book in the series can be used by itself as a stand-alone text or with the other books in the series. They can be adapted for use in elementary, middle, or high school language arts classes by English and other teachers at all grade levels, and for students of varying abilities. Parents will also find the books valuable for their home-schooled children.
Autorenporträt
Andrea Louise Ambler, author of "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive: A Teaching Resource Book" has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Southern California, and also attended UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Hawaii. Andrea taught at the elementary through university levels with the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Unified School Districts, and the Department of Defense in Germany. Her teaching included English, science and history for many years. She also served as University Mentor for the Department of Teacher Education, Azusa Pacific University.Andrea was awarded "Teacher of the Year" by the Beverly Hills Educational Foundation, received "Outstanding Teacher Awards" from the Beverly Hills School District and Chamber of Commerce, and was honored twice with the "Johns Hopkins University Teacher Recognition Award." She is listed in "Who's Who in American Education." Her previous books are: "LITERATURE: the Book, the Place and the Pen" and "Keepers of the Flame: A Poetry and Prose Resource Book for Teachers" as co-author, and she helped develop "Distant Shore," part of a K-8 literature series for McGraw-Hill Publishing. Andrea has made numerous presentations at local and state English conferences, and currently resides with her husband, Charles Hargrove, in Pasadena, California.