false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298488m/20661.jpg 20661 1 <DIV><p>"WHATEVER SHIRLEY OR NICK TELL YOU-BELIEVE THEM."</p><p>- Naomi Shihab Nye<br></p><p>How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching?</p><p>In their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions. This book invites preservice and inservice teachers, staff developers - anyone who wants to make a lasting place for poetry in their own and their students' lives - into many of these same primary through middle school classrooms for an up-close look at several thoughtful, rigorous, poetry inquiries.</p><p>Each chapter begins with a mentor poem as the centerpiece for discussion, followed by a short narrative of ways the authors view their world through that chapter's particular poetic "lens." The authors then walk the reader into a classroom writer's workshop where, through vignettes, conversations, and carefully designed mini-lessons, that chapter's key element of poetic practice is being studied over time.</p><p>Other aspects that will help teachers in designing and conducting inquiry around mentor poems include:<UL><LI>mini-lessons that take students through an inquiry from launch to in-depth extensions;</LI><LI>illustrations of student writing samples in the "try it" stages, successive drafts, and crafted poems;</LI><LI>words, stories, and examples of best-loved poets that inspire and instruct us in our own thinking and teaching;</LI><LI>appendixes that include various types of book lists, charts, conference transcripts, and additional poems.</LI></UL><p><I>A Note Slipped Under the Door</I> will show how you might help your student writers let the poems they love teach them what they need to know, and build a writing life that includes finding and crafting their own.</p></DIV> 21849 1 9 2000 A Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching from Poems We Love total:10|5:1|4:4|3:5|2:0|1:0| 10 36 37 0 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 03:27:04 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 03:27:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 15:35:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:35:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 12:29:09 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 12:29:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 05:11:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 05:11:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 20:31:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:31:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 17:32:39 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:32:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 15:38:40 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:38:40 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 19:24:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:24:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 27 15:23:20 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 15:23:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 09:42:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:42:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 07:44:57 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 07:45:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 23 14:47:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 14:47:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 09 12:11:34 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 12:11:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 09 11:37:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:37:40 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 09:36:55 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 09:36:55 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Feb 12 15:01:22 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 18:44:52 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 15:01:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 25 11:02:20 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:02:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 21:32:34 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 21:32:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 15:24:44 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 15:24:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 23 09:05:41 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 09:05:41 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=20661