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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:44:50 -0400 Here are some inspiring resources for poetry in the classroom:

Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom and Community Georgia Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2010. This is an amazing resource.

George Ella Lyon: Writer and Teacher www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

Families Writing Peter Stillman Writers' Digest, 1989

How to Write a Where I'm From poem This site gives teaching ideas for prewriting and writing a Where I'm From poem www.ehow.com/how_4615832_write-_where-i_m-from_-poem.html

Please check out the latest issue of Program Notes from the Managing Stress to Improve Learning project at World Ed in Boston. Several pages are devoted to samples of student poems. The "Where I'm From" poems are stunning and fit nicely into a diversity theme. I originally came across the idea for the "Where I'm From" poem in the book Beyond Heros and Holidays, still one of my favorites.

The link to Program Notes: www.nelrc.org/managingstress/program%20notes%2002%20-%20july%2028.pdf

Lenore Balliro, Project Director Managing Stress to Improve Learning World Education