Finding Geography Using Found Poetry

Autor/in	Foster, Ellen J.
Titel	Finding Geography Using Found Poetry
Quelle	In: Geography Teacher, 9 (2012) 1, S.26-29 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1933-8341
DOI	10.1080/19338341.2012.635101
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Geography Instruction; Adolescent Literature; Current Events; Language Arts; Young Adults; Geographic Concepts; Functional Literacy; Poetry; Nonfiction; Textbooks; Secondary School Students; Cultural Awareness; Vocabulary; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Aktualität; Sprachkultur; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Funktionale Kompetenz; Lyrik; Poesie; Non-fiction; Nichtfiktionaler Text; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Sekundarschüler; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Wortschatz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Functional literacy is important in both English/language arts and geography. Using the "found poetry" strategy, students will summarize a piece of text, identify main ideas and find geographic connections. While using young adult literature is a great way to incorporate geography into English/language arts classroom, understanding of geography and geographic themes may be better demonstrated by analyzing and interpreting nonfiction. By using nonfiction readings to supplement the textbook in the secondary geography classroom, the teachers not only encourage the growth of geographic skills but many English/language arts skills as well. Exposure to quality, creative, nonfiction writing expands students' understandings of cultures and in turn, helps dispel myths and stereotypes. Newspapers, magazines, and radio/Internet news sources make for great reading and are wonderful ways to incorporate current events into the classroom. This article presents a lesson which is a geography adaptation of "Found and Headline Poetry." Using quality, short, non-fiction readings, students expand their knowledge and understanding of geographic concepts to create unique poems using quotes from the article. Greater interaction with an article may help struggling readers to establish language fluency and increase understanding of key geographic vocabulary. This lesson is designed for the grades 6-12 geography/social studies and English/language arts classroom. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10