Authors: Alan Lawrence Sitomer, Michael Cirelli
ISBN-13: 9780972188227, ISBN-10: 0972188223
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Milk Mug Publishing
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"Our goal is to make the academic study of poetry accessible, relevant, comprehensible and enjoyable to students in our contemporary, multicultural classrooms." Our methodology is to analyze the poetry of Hip-Hop and compare its motifs, themes, and general poetic devices (such as alliteration, rhyme scheme, figurative language, etc. ...) to the "classic" poems traditionally studied (by writers such as Frost, Dickinson, Keats, etc. ...) in order to teach the core elements of the poetic craft in an appealing, relevant, thorough and accessible manner.
Alliteration | 6 | |
Allusion | 8 | |
Ain't I a woman? | 8 | |
For women | 12 | |
Epitaph | 16 | |
Figurative language | 18 | |
Haiku | 19 | |
Hyperbole | 20 | |
Imagery | 22 | |
Harlem : a dream, deferred | 22 | |
Juicy | 25 | |
Irony | 29 | |
The fish | 29 | |
Meaning | 32 | |
Do not go gentle into that good night | 32 | |
Me against the world | 35 | |
Metaphors | 40 | |
The weaver | 40 | |
Respiration | 43 | |
Mood | 47 | |
We real cool | 47 | |
A roller skating jam | 50 | |
Follow me | 50 | |
Onomatopoeia | 54 | |
The Congo | 54 | |
Datskat | 57 | |
Pattern | 61 | |
If | 61 | |
How many | 65 | |
Personification | 69 | |
Lodged | 69 | |
Mirror | 72 | |
I Am Music | 72 | |
Rhyme schemes | 77 | |
Simile | 79 | |
Sonnets | 81 | |
Another sonnet for Stephan | 81 | |
Symbolism | 88 | |
Sympathy | 88 | |
Three strikes you in | 92 | |
Tone | 96 | |
The night has a thousand eyes | 96 | |
Pain in full | 99 | |
Reading strategies | 104 | |
Jabberwocky | 104 | |
Author's choice - classic | ||
The tide rises, the tide falls | 108 | |
Author's choice - hip-hop | 111 | |
Fight the power | 111 | |
Otha Fish | 114 | |
Lose yourself | 117 | |
Recital exercises | 120 | |
Love's philosophy | 121 | |
Activities | 126 | |
AP exam success | 135 | |
Gifted and talented education | 141 | |
English language learners | 143 | |
Extended writing activities | 144 |