Raplets: A Teacher's Guide to Creating Urban Poetry

TEACHING FOR UNDERSTANDING

Modern day teachers understand the need for making connections in order for their students to learn. The hectic pace of the twenty first century has eliminated much of the family time where stories and real life experiences are discussed, explained and laughed about, over and over. They could “experience” in the way that only ingenuous repetition is able to do. They might never have gone to a World’s Fair, but Grandma did, in 1984 New Orleans, and she remembers it ...