The Secret Life of Words

Poetry Exercises and Activities Grades 3-6.

 

by Maria Damon & Betsy Franco.

 

San Diego, Teaching Resource Center, 2ooo. ISBN 1-56785-o5o-2.

 

8-1/2 x 11, 72 sheets white bond perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers printed black offset with cherry & light lime addition to covers.

 

cover by Janis Poe & Linda Starr.

35 contributors ID'd:

Matsuo Basho, Brendan Bellomo, Elizabeth Bishop, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Lee Ann Brown, Lewis Carroll, Jo Child, Kati Dahm, Maria Damon, Emily Dickinson, Larry Eigner, Mahogany Elaj-Foster, Betsy Franco, Thomas Franco, Bob Grumman, Langston Hughes, Ted Joans, John Masefield, Bernadette Mayer, Blac Q, Lucio Ramirez, Japhy Riddle, Luis Rodriguez, Christopher Smart, Tatiana Smith, Alan Sondheim, Linda Starr, Jane Taylor (also includes a whack of juvenile contributors ID'd by 1st name only).

 

Nichol inclusions:

i) for Louise Prael [ie The Frog Variations] (p.24; poetry/concrete poetry giving 5 of its 9 parts, typeset in an odd typeface resembling handlettering with some layout differences:

--1. [untitled] (concrete poem in 3 parts:

----a. Dawn

----b. Noon

----c. Dusk)

--2. "fogfogfogfrogfog" (concrete poem)

--3. "moonfrog" (concrete poem)

--4. (definition of a lily-pad) (poem)

--9. "into the sky at night" (poem))

ii) Sixteen Lilypads (p.25; concrete poem)

iii) "fr-o-glop" (p.25; variation on Matsuo Basho)

iv) Bashaiku (p.26; typeset as (i) above)

v) Basho Update The Actual Life of Language 3 (p.26; title typeset as (i) above)

vi) [(definition of a lily-pad)] (p.42; as (i4) above but enlarged)

vii) "the waves" (p.77; concrete poem, lettered as (i) above)

 

also includes (all by Maria Damon & Betysy Franco except as noted):

viii) Frog Haiku (pp.24-27; in 3 parts, all with references to Nichol's Basho variations:

--1. Intriguing Background Information

--2. Why Do This?

--3. Activity)

ix) Prefixes and Suffixes (in 4 parts with quotes by Nichol in part 1, Intriguing Background Information, from

--1. (definition of a lily-pad) (see (vi) above)

--2. Hour 4: 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. (lines 119-121)

--3. Hour 11: 1:35 to 2:35 a.m. (lines 43-47))

x) Word Chains (in 4 parts with references to Nichol in parts

--1. Intriguing Background Information (references to Nichol & quotes from

----a. Hour 4: 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. (lines 136-138)

----b. "life like lake like" (lines 1-3)

----c. "the contradiction is" (lines 11-13))

--3. Activity (passing reference))

xi) How Poems Look (in 5 parts with references to Nichol in part 5, Extra & quote by Nichol ((vii) above))

xii) How Poems Sound (in multiple parts with reference to Nichol in part

--1. Background Beat (in 3 parts, Nichol reference in part

----a. Intriguing Background Information (includes:

------1. 30 Seconds on the Clock, by Betsy Franco (a poem taking off from Nichol's Hour 19, quoting lines (in order of appearance) 32, 19, 36, 31-34 (with added hyphens))

------2. Raindrops, by Betsy Franco (a poem taking off from Nichol's Hour 19))))

xiii) Rhyme (in 2 parts:

--1. Conventional Rjhyme, Off-Rhyme, Eye Rhyme (in 4 parts with reference to Nichol's Bashaiku in part 4, Activity)

--2. Internal Rhyme (in 4 parts with quotes by Nichol in part 1, Intriguing Background Information from

----a. Hour 6: 4:35 to 5:35 a.m. (lines 1o4-1o5)

----b. "in Choate Road" (ie Inchoate Road part I:6, lines 1-4)))

xiv) What to Look for in Poetry (Maria's Secret Formula) (in 4 parts with references to Nichol in parts

--1. Intriguing Background Information

--4. Activity)

 

Done