Exploring History through Visualization, Interpretation, & Poetry Making

This is a slideshare I will be using with middle school history teachers later this week.


Blurb from Slideshare: In this informative slideshare, uses drawing to explore the Ballad of Birmingham. This is followed by an interpretation of the poem as created by a student for her AP class. At the conclusion of this slideshare are methods to create blackout newspaper poems and found poems using a newspaper account of the Birmingham Church Bombing from September 1963.

Drawing Your Way Into and Out of a Poem

Eavan Boland reading.

This is an sample of some work I will be doing with administrators and teachers later in the week focusing on comprehension and poetry.  The poem, This Moment, is authored by Irish poet Eavan Boland.