Yale - New Haven Teacher's Institute  'Putting Poetry on it's Feet"

Reviewed By Ann Clark

I think this site is a good site for teachers.

Authority - The author is Maggie Roberts with the Yale - New Haven Teacher's Institute. She taught theater to middle school students at The Betsy Ross Arts Magnet school.

Accuracy - It was very weel wriiten and was accurate. Sources were documented.

Currency - It was written in 1989. It is updated to include a 2001 Terms of use. Although the initial article was written 13 years ago, I think it still contains useful information.

Content / Coverage - This site contains lesson plans and activates for use when teaching poetry. It contains original information.

Objectivity - The site is provided for teachers. The site is sponsored by the Yale - New Haven Teacher's Institute.

Access. Additional software and hardware are not necessary to use this site. The lessons plans are free and it is not necessary to register to use it.

Design / Appearance - The layout of the site makes it easy to read and navigate. There is an outline of contents and each section is clearly labeled and arranged in a logical way.

Reviewed By Carol "Janie" Samfield

This site (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/2/89.02.06.x.html) is a curriculum unit for English classes, grade 5-12 presented by Maggie Roberts, who is a middle school teacher of theatre. The site was assembled by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, which is "an educational partnership between Yale University and The New Haven Public Schools".

I found a copyright date of 2001 but no update notation. All links were active.

A link is given for communicating with the Yale-New Haven Institute, which has email addresses but no street address.

Several references to other works were properly attributed on this site. Also included was a bibliography for teachers and for students.

The curricular unit included two lesson plans for use with students and one for use with students and teachers (possible workshop). Although not stated in the text, I would assume that the material has been printed in paper form in order to be included in the New Haven Public School's curriculum guides.

This site had good plans for pre-performance activities for middle school students, using poetry to improve language skills and to make use of students' imaginations.

Reviewed by Angela Lamb

I. Accuracy
The information on this site is very useful for any teacher or student wanting to use poetry in the classroom. The information is accurate and user-friendly.

II. Authority
The Yale – New Haven Teacher’s Institute, published this site in 2003. The author, Maggie Roberts, is a teacher of theater arts at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School.

III. Objectivity
The lesson plans are written for junior high students. The level of difficulty may be increased or decreased depending on the level of the students being taught.

IV. Currency
The website was published in 2003. No date of when the paper was written is given.

V. Coverage
This paper contains objectives, three lesson plans, additional reading resources, and bibliographies for teachers and students.

The lesson plans contain detailed plans to follow to teach poetry in the classroom.

Bibliographies are designed to help students study poetry for projects and teachers teach poetry in the classroom.