Ardizzone, Danielle "In The Midst of Daily Life" Previously unpublished.
This poem is a student work and is used with author's permission.
Carr, Desimone "This is What I've Found Out" Previously unpublished.
This poem is a student work and is used with author's permission.
cummings, e.e. "i carry your heart with me" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-carry-your-heart-with-me-2/
A line from a seminal poem.
Discover Armenia.com "Clay" http://www.discoverarmenia.info/en/journals/20/240/
Quotes regarding how clay objects have been used in funeral rituals primarily in the Middle East.
Eliot, T.S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" http://bartelby.net/200/sw4.html
One short line from an inspiring essay.
Hattie, John. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. London: Routledge. 2009
The New York Times says of this book that it "Reveals teaching's Holy Grail." I agree. It's dense but well worth your time.
Katz, Judith J. Uncovering Your Students' Authentic Voice. Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute. Curriculum Unit 07.01.03 /curriculum/units/2007/1/07.01.03.x.html (accessed April 5, 2010)
This unit is a direct follow up to my prior unit and I strongly believe in, practice, and continue to evolve my prior practices.
Kirchner, Emily. "Moments With No Name" Previously unpublished.
This poem is a student work and is used with author's permission.
Kubler-Ross, Marion and David Kessler. The Five Stages of Grief. http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/
David Kessler is Kubler-Ross's collaborator and authorized spokesperson regarding ongoing work based on her original book and ideas.
Nair, Dr. V. Sankaran. "Hinduism: A Holy Water Religion" http://www.boloji.com/history/041.htm
Information regarding Hindu funeral rituals.
Opalah, Joseph A. "The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone Connection" http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm
Information regarding Gullah funeral rituals.
Padgett, Ron. The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. Second Edition. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2000.
Smith, Troy. "He's On His Way" Previously unpublished.
This poem is a student work to be published next year in the Metamorphosis, Co-op's Literary Magazine, and is used with author's permission.
Strand, Mark and Evan Boland Eds. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
They do a phenomenal job at explaining the elements of the elegy plus they have an impressive number of examples of well known (likely in the public domain) elegies that can be quoted and used as examples both in the unit and in the classroom.
Theune, Michael Editor. Structure and Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2007.
Theune also wrestles with the structure and form of the elegy when he says, "[…] the elegy is more a mode of thinking, or a complex set of conventions, than a single structure."
Whitman, Walt. "Song Of Myself" http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/whitman.html
A seminal line of poetry from the 1855 version.
Wilson, Leslie Owen. "Beyond Bloom - A new Version of the Cognitive Taxonomy" http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/curric/newtaxonomy.htm
This is the new, updated taxonomy that puts creativity at the top of the learning pyramid.