Overview
Each volume of Poetry For Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 14-16 works from various cultures and time periods. Each poem covered in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content.
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Features & Benefits
- Student friendly: Homework help format, w/ criticism at H.S. students' interest and reading levels.
- Reader friendly: For patrons interested in more info on the classics or bestsellers they're reading.
- Curriculum Connection: Supports standards on study of literature by genre or in historical context and provides read-a-likes for common core activities.
- Assignment based: For Students designed to match real English projects and the format facilitates compare and contrast, inquiry based activities.
- Title lists correlate well with textbooks, anthologies.
What's New
Here are some of the poems featured in this volume: "The Answer" by Bei Dao, "Heaven" by Cathy Song, "Reading Aloud to My Father" by Jane Kenyon and "To the Sun" by Ingeborg Bachmann.
