Poetry Countdown 2018 | My Top 5 Poems to teach to High School students

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  • Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160914
    • ISBN: 0761160914
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes;... [Read More]

  • Refugee

    • ASIN: 0545880831
    • ISBN: 9780545880831
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America .... [Read More]

  • Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    • ASIN: 0804189935
    • ISBN: 0804189935
    • Brand: THREE RIVERS
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete... [Read More]

  • The Poet X

    • ASIN: 0062662805
    • ISBN: 0062662805
    • Manufacturer: HarperTeen

    Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with bl... [Read More]

  • The Screwtape Letters

    • ASIN: 0060652934
    • ISBN: 0060652934
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Size: 0.58" H x 8.03" L x 5.44" W (0.4 lbs) 160 pages
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    The Screwtape Letters by C.S.  Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters... [Read More]

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    • ASIN: 0345514408
    • ISBN: 0345514408
    • Brand: Maya Angelou
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.   Sent by their mother to ... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0140268863
    • ISBN: 9780140268867
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ISBN: 9780147515827
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    • UPC: 033500318412
    • ASIN: 0394800168
    • ISBN: 0545002850
    • Brand: Ingram Book & Distributor
    • Manufacturer: Beginner Books/Random House

  • The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

    • ASIN: 0325098123
    • ISBN: 0325098123
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to ... [Read More]

  • The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060837020
    • ISBN: 0060837020
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an ... [Read More]

  • The Iliad

    • ASIN: 0140275363
    • ISBN: 9780140275360
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic   Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruct... [Read More]

  • A Grief Observed

    • UPC: 099455012997
    • ASIN: 0060652381
    • ISBN: 0060652381
    • Brand: HarperOne
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of hi... [Read More]

  • Wheelock's Latin 7th Edition (The Wheelock's Latin Series)

    • ASIN: 0061997226
    • ISBN: 0061997226
    • Brand: Collins Reference
    • Manufacturer: Collins Reference

    For nearly sixty years, Wheelock's Latin has remained the optimus liber of beginning Latin textbooks. When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elem... [Read More]

  • Grendel

    • ASIN: 0679723110
    • ISBN: 9780679723110
    • Brand: BALLANTINE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Cry, the Beloved Country

    • ASIN: 0743262174
    • ISBN: 0743262174
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inherito... [Read More]

  • Citizen: An American Lyric

    • ASIN: 1555976905
    • ISBN: 1555976905
    • Brand: Graywolf Press
    • Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe,... [Read More]

  • Hop on Pop (I Can Read It All By Myself)

    • UPC: 000394800293
    • ASIN: 039480029X
    • ISBN: 9780394800295
    • Brand: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

  • Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go!

    • ASIN: 0553520571
    • ISBN: 9780553520576
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

    An introduction to the world of Dr. Seuss—for babies and babies-to-be!   Artfully adapted almost entirely from Ted Geisel’s work, this introduction to the world of Dr. Seuss is a must for expectant parents and new babies! In simple rhymed verse, author Tish Rabe extolls the joys awaiting newborns when they meet the Cat in the Hat, Horton the E... [Read More]

  • Seuss-isms! A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out...and Those Already on Their Way

    • ASIN: 0553508415
    • ISBN: 0553508415
    • Brand: Random House Kids
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

    A New York Times bestseller, this collection of quotes from Dr. Seuss makes a perfect gift for graduation! The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. With over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green... [Read More]

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