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Vanessa Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: NWP Directors and Co-directors Discussion -
> Vanessa Powell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Janis Cramer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Poetry Across the Miles
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:18:11 -0700 (PDT)
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> Good Day NWP Site Directors and Co-directors!
>
> I am writing to ask your for your help with a
> project I am pursuing with a colleague from Canada.
> The project has to do with using poetry to deal with
> themes of life from personal identity to loss, joy
> and grief.  We have shadowed the writing of the
> Canadian author, David Bouchard, and have begun to
> collect poetry samples written around the book If
> You're Not From the Prairie.
>
> I am interested in seeing how shadowing of the
> poetry in this particular book by David Bouchard
> (what I mean by shadowing is taking the structure of
> the text, and having kids use it as a launching
> point for original poetry by adding in their own
> words, adopting the structure and wording and
> creating their own poems) plays itself out as a
> structure for kids, mainly in grade 5.
>
> Here is where I could use your help, input and
> suggestions.  Have any of you used David Bouchard's
> book, or know of any teachers from your site who may
> have used this book in their writing instruction?
> If you have, would you be willing to share the
> process, outcome and poetry?  I am anxious to get a
> sense of what kids are capable of doing within a
> shadowing structure with this particular poem, and
> especially at grade 5 if possible (other grades are
> welcome of course).
>
> I am SO excited to read your replies.  I thiank you
> sincerely for your help and time.
>
> Vanessa Powell - Alaska State Writing Consortium,
> Invitational Institute Leader
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