Here in Harlem |
Publication Information
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Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
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Title: Here in Harlem |
Date: 2004 |
Publisher: Holiday House |
City: New York |
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Family:
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Young Adult:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
poetry, fiction
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Summary: |
Walter Dean Myers recreates the Harlem of his youth in poetry and populates it with colorful characters through their voices. |
Teaching Ideas: |
A background look at Spoon River Anthology would help students see what Myers is doing. These poems offer innumberable opportunities to use Readers' Theater, whether reading characters individually or grouping several together in an imagined dialogue. Readers might find creating a matrix helpful to differentiate the many voices. After choosing a favorite character, students can examine the poem to see how the images, musical rhythms, and varied rhymes contribute to the portrait. Since the characters speak separately, a composite view of Harlem through its residents is left to the reader to articulate in discussion or writing. This overview of Harlem could be compared with several books in a text set on Harlem, obtained by a Eureka keyword search. Students might consider writing poetry in the voices of those in their community, suggesting the way place can shape experience. |
Teaching Strategies: |
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Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
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Helping Students in the Writing Process
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
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Matrices or Charts
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf
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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword |
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