Inspirational Guide for a New Language:
Classroom Poetry Guide
About the Guide | Introduction by Terri Glass | Overview | Contents
Program Introduction | Excerpt from Lesson Plan One
The Classroom Poetry Guide was created in conjunction with California Poets in the Schools poet-teacher Terri Glass, and Fund For Global Awakening. The poetry lessons in the printed Guide were taught in six classrooms at West Marin School in Point Reyes, California, in the fall of 1999.
Now available online, the Classroom Poetry Guide includes ten lesson plans with themes of animal wisdom, joy, connection, generosity, beauty, honoring the heart, peace, praise, forgiveness, and envisioning a new future. The Guide includes example poems by Robert Bly, J. Ruth Gendler, Scott Momaday, Pablo Neruda, Carl Sandburg, and others, as well as poems written by the children who participated in the Fall 1999 pilot program.
Endorsements
"Bringing the timelessness and intelligence of poetry into the lives of children must be one of the most generous things we can do for those who will make and articulate our future. The Inspirational Guide for a New Language is a marvelous gift to that future."
-- David Whyte, author of The Heart Aroused:
Poetry and Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
 "An excellent guidebook. Like watering a garden, these poems water the beautiful hearts of our children."
-- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
and After the Ecstasy, then the Laundry
"This is a very inventive and thoughtful book from a gifted poet-teacher and should be enormously valuable to classroom teachers working with kids on poetry."
-- Robert Hass, former U.S Poet-Laureate
"This book is a gift to the child that lives in all of us. The poetry delights the ear. The illustrations delight the eye. Together they feed the soul."
- Irene Favreau, Director of Mental Health Association of Marin
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