The Online Poetry Classroom
Jun 2nd, 2004From the National Endowment for the Humanities, mixing poetry and online learning.
When a poet visits his classroom, says Richard Cappuccio, students "find out that poets are alive."
"I love Shakespeare, and I love Emily Dickinson and John Donne, and I love Wordsworth," says Cappuccio, who teaches at Grover Cleveland High School in New York. "Those are the poets that are brought into the classroom on a regular basis–but everybody's dead."
High school teachers are finding new ways to cultivate a love of reading poetry in their students. The Online Poetry Classroom, a website and workshop series sponsored by the academy of American Poets, is helping teachers get better acquainted with poetry and develop curricula tailored to their classes.
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