eng/295 Poetry and the Imagination

Rubric Week 1

Poetry and the Imagination

How does poetry stimulate the imagination? In this first assignment, you will examine its role in the development of appreciation in the natural world and in developing imagination in children.

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**Note: Please read and follow ALL instructions for this and all assignments.

 

How does poetry stimulate the imagination? In this first assignment you will examine its role in the development of appreciation in the natural world and in developing imagination in children.

 

Select one poem from among those read this week in each of the following sections (a total of three poems):

· Animals and Nature

· Poems to Stimulate the Imagination

· Verse, Riddles and Wordplay, or Nonsense

Write a 350- to 700-word paper wherein you explain the following:

· Your choice of poems

· How poems can instill an appreciation for animals and the natural world in children

· The role of rhythms, moods, images, and patterns in your chosen poems

· How the rhythms, moods, images, and patterns in your chosen poems add to or detract from the poem

· How poems can stimulate imagination in children

· The benefits of teaching poetry to children

Use stories, poems, course reserve readings and other resources from the required readings to complete this and every assignment in this course.  If you would like to use an outside source, you must get permission from Prof. Sowers before Day 5 of the week it is due.

 

Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Note: Students who are enrolled in the BA in English program may be required to use MLA formatting.  

 

Review the CWE infomation about plagiarism and visit YouTube for more on avoiding plagiarism.  You must cite all sources for every assignment in this and every course.  Failure to cite sources may result in a Zero for the assignment, class failure and even may result in expulsion.  

 

Save your file as "YourName Week 1"

 

Elements	POINTS	Comments
Content	/10 points
Selected three poems: one from each section as required.
Within word count requirement: 350-700 words.
Included all assignment elements: Why did you choose the poems? How poems can instill an appreciation for animals and the natural world in children. The role of rhythms, moods, images, and patterns in your chosen poems. How the rhythms, moods, images, and patterns in your chosen poems add to or detract from the poem. How poems can stimulate imagination in children. The benefits of teaching poetry to children. Followed all instructions
Style	/3 points
Spelling
Grammar
Readability/flow
Word Usage
Format	/2 points
APA format (MLA for English Majors only – must indicate MLA is being used by titling references as “Works Cited”). All three poems chosen are cited and from the readings this week. 2 other source articles that were required are cited and from the readings this week.
	Total /15

Note: I would suggest an outline for this assignment as follows:

Intro – Here are my 3 poems and this is why I selected them.

A. Poems can instill appreciation…

a. Poem 1 Example

b. Poem 2 Example

c. Poem 3 Example

B. The role of rhythms, moods, images, and patterns in your chosen poems…

a. Poem 1 Example

b. Poem 2 Example

c. Poem 3 Example

C. Any distractions in rhythms, moods, images…

a. Poem 1 Example (if any)

b. Poem 2 Example

c. Poem 3 Example

D. These poems stimulate the imagination in the following ways…

a. Poem 1 Example

b. Poem 2 Example

c. Poem 3 Example

E. Here are the benefits to teaching children poetry (use the reading from this week to help and make sure you cite them)

Conclusion – my 3 poems demonstrate…

Your essay should be in essay, paragraph form and not in an outline. This is just an example you may use to organize your writing if you wish.

Acceptable sources for this week:

· "Hush-A-Bye Baby: Death and Violence in the Lullaby" by Marina Warner

· "The Forgotten Genre of Children's Poetry" by Sharon Ruth Gill

· "Playing with Poetry" from Scholastic Parent and Child

· "Introduction: Story and Verse" from Why Lyrics Last

· "And Down Will Come Baby" by Rivka Galchen

· "Nursery Rhymes" by New Princeton Encyclopedia & Poetics  

· "Mother Goose" by Clifton Fadiman

· "Poetry" by Sheila A. Egoff

· "Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)" from Dictionary of Women Worldwide

· Christina Rossetti and Illustration, Ch. 3: Books for Children, pp. 91-126

· "Robert Browning" from Britannica Academic

· "Edward Lear" from Encyclopedia of World Biography

· "A Book of Nonsense" by J. R. Holmes

· "Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)" by P. L. Heath

· The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Penny Fielding, Ch. 3: Child Psychology

Acceptable Poems for this Week 1 Assignment

Poems about Animals and Nature 

Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes by Walter De la Mare

· "All But Blind"

· "Nicholas Nye"

· "Earth Folk"

· "Trees"

· "The Bees' Song"

Nonsense

The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear

· "The Jumblies"

· "The Owl and the Pussy-cat"

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

· "Jabberwocky"

Poems to Stimulate Imagination

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

· "The Land of Counterpane"

· "The Land of Nod"

· "Escape at Bedtime"

· "Marching Song"

· "The Cow"

· "Happy Thought"

· "Foreign Children"

· "The Moon"

· "The Swing"

· "The Unseen Playmate"

· "Block City"

· "Summer Sun"

· "Autumn Fires"

· "To Any Reader"