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From: Carrie Schadle <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:44:43 -0400 (EDT)
I love to use poetry when classes come to visit. I am not sure how so many adults get turned into proclaimed poetry haters, because the kids I work with (through grade six) all seem to love it. I have been using baseball poems all month from Morrison's _At the Crack of the Bat_, _From Sea to Shining Sea_ and Hopkins's _Extra Innings_. Even though everyone knows how _Casey at the Bat_ ends, everyone hangs on the edge of their seat waiting to see if he is going to drive in a run. There is a great poem in the Morrison anthology called _The New Kid_ about a girl who is better than everyone else on the team.
I also have a bunch of what I call "gross" (sorry) poems that kids love from _Pizza the Size of the Sun_, _Monday's Troll_ (both Prelutsky), _What to Do When a Bug Crawls in Your Mouth_ (Walton) and _Falling Up_
(Silverstein). I use them with the rhymed picture book by Bill Grossman called _My Sister Ate One Hare_.
After presenting these poems kids flock to the poetry section and check books out. Why does poetry have such a bad rap? When does this happen? I think if we let kids know that poetry can be fun and doesn't always have some deep hidden meaning, they will be3 more willing to give the harder, more serious stuff a go. When I do the baseball poems I read a poem about Jackie Robinson by Clifton and one about Roberto Clemente by Tom Clark, which are certainly serious, and the kids enjoy them and understand them.
******************************** Carrie Schadle Jefferson Market Regional Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/243C34
Received on Thu 16 Apr 1998 09:44:43 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:44:43 -0400 (EDT)
I love to use poetry when classes come to visit. I am not sure how so many adults get turned into proclaimed poetry haters, because the kids I work with (through grade six) all seem to love it. I have been using baseball poems all month from Morrison's _At the Crack of the Bat_, _From Sea to Shining Sea_ and Hopkins's _Extra Innings_. Even though everyone knows how _Casey at the Bat_ ends, everyone hangs on the edge of their seat waiting to see if he is going to drive in a run. There is a great poem in the Morrison anthology called _The New Kid_ about a girl who is better than everyone else on the team.
I also have a bunch of what I call "gross" (sorry) poems that kids love from _Pizza the Size of the Sun_, _Monday's Troll_ (both Prelutsky), _What to Do When a Bug Crawls in Your Mouth_ (Walton) and _Falling Up_
(Silverstein). I use them with the rhymed picture book by Bill Grossman called _My Sister Ate One Hare_.
After presenting these poems kids flock to the poetry section and check books out. Why does poetry have such a bad rap? When does this happen? I think if we let kids know that poetry can be fun and doesn't always have some deep hidden meaning, they will be3 more willing to give the harder, more serious stuff a go. When I do the baseball poems I read a poem about Jackie Robinson by Clifton and one about Roberto Clemente by Tom Clark, which are certainly serious, and the kids enjoy them and understand them.
******************************** Carrie Schadle Jefferson Market Regional Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/243C34
Received on Thu 16 Apr 1998 09:44:43 AM CDT
