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 Asian Poems for young readers (Volume 3)
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Title :
Asian Poems for young Readers (Volume 3)
Editors :
Alan Maley
Jayakaran Mukundan |
The poems in this book were all written during a creative writing workshop held in Melaka in September 2004. The participants were fifteen teachers and lecturers from schools and colleges in nine Asian countries.
The purpose of the workshop was to produce original stories and poems which would appeal to secondary school students in Malaysia and elsewhere
in the Asia region. The stories have already been published as Asian Stories for Young Readers Volumes 1 and 2.
Our purpose in writing poems too, was to offer accessible poetry to students which would appeal to them partly because of its local themes and subject matter. We also believe that poetry is an underused resource among students. Yet it is of great importance because it opens the way to a deeper appreciation of emotion and the way it is expressed through words, and through the rhythms and cadences of the language.
We envisage that these poems could be used in a number of different ways:
- Students could simply read them silently, out of class, for enjoyment. This would be done a little at a time, and often.
- They could be read aloud in class, or better still, performed in an orchestrated way by small groups.
- The poems could be read in class and followed by discussion, linking the students' own lives, experiences and opinions to those expressed in the poems.
- They could be read in class, and students encouraged to make drawings or other visual representations of the content and the feelings aroused.
- After reading poems of a certain type, for example stem poems, students could be encouraged to write similar poems of their own.
In each chapter of the book we have given some indication of how to get started on writing. All the ideas in the book are quite simple, and require no specialist literary knowledge. The techniques are simple, and everyone is capable of writing something which is more personal and more interesting than most of the other kinds of writing they may be asked to produce. The effect on students' motivation after they have successfully managed to write a poem in English can be quite dramatic.
We hope you will enjoy reading and using these poems as much as we enjoyed writing them.
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Titles;
Chapter 1: Stem Poems
Chapter 2 : Poems from senses
Chapter 3 : If everything was opposite
Chapter 4 : Acrostics
Chapter 5 : Haikus
Chapter 6 : Cinquains and Diamond Poems
Chapter 7 : Excuses, Complains, Praise, Torture, etc
Chapter 8 : Hope is a spoon
Chapter 9 : Old song: New Worlds and Jazz Chants
Chapter 10 : Three-world Conversations
Chapter 11 : Mini-sagas
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