Research for the Classroom: Playing with Difficult Poetry--High School Seniors and Arthur Sze's "Quipu"

Autor/in	Fogle, Andy
Titel	Research for the Classroom: Playing with Difficult Poetry--High School Seniors and Arthur Sze's "Quipu"
Quelle	In: English Journal, 102 (2012) 2, S.142-145 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Poetry; Creative Writing; High School Seniors; Teaching Methods; Imitation; Cooperative Learning; Language Arts; Literature + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lyrik; Poesie; Kreatives Schreiben; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kooperatives Lernen; Sprachkultur; Literatur
Abstract	The author had been assigned two sections of Contemporary Literature, a semester-long senior elective, and he wanted to do something new with poetry. He planned to teach Arthur Sze's "Quipu." Sze's poetry is nonlinear, adopting principles from science, anthropology, and history into a multilayered poetic texture--text unlike anything students typically encounter in high school. For him, this addressed key instructional goals: expanding students' concept of what literature is, pushing them into strange territory, and helping them manage the metaphorical and structural phenomenon "Quipu" presents. Although the author planned and tried a variety of approaches, what seemed to help students most was collaborating on imitations of Sze's style. Based on this work, he suggests opening up the literature curriculum to more stylistically challenging texts, and implementing a more sustained use of creative writing techniques to support and extend that reading. The implications of this approach are curricular and instructional as well as ethical. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10