Book Detail

Soul Looks Back in Wonder, The

Publication Information
Author:  Feelings, Tom Illustrator:  Feelings, Tom
Title:  Soul Looks Back in Wonder, The Date:  1988
Publisher:  Dial City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8037-1001-1 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    poetry

HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading

Summary:
This lavishly illustrated book is a collection of 13 poems by African American poets such as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Alexis de Veaux.

Teaching Ideas:
Teachers may want to pick and choose poems for different activities. Some poems lend themselves to dramatic readings, some for line-by-line reading and discussion, some for written journal responses. The poems may provide motivation for studying family history and roots. A research project of finding other poems by the authors and other books illustrated by Tom Feelings could follow. Students may want to write their own poems or prose in response to one of the illustrations. For more information on Langston Hughes, go to this website www. learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot//Hughes. html. For information on Maya Angelou see www.mayaangelou.com For more books on family history, see the Family History Matrix.

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Ethnic Groups > African-American
bullet Family > family history
bullet Literature and Language > figurative language
bullet Literature and Language > authors > Angelou, Maya
bullet Literature and Language > authors > Hughes, Langston
bullet Literature and Language > authors > de Veaux, Alexis
bullet Literature and Language > poetry


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