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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Selected Haiku by Issa

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the poet Robert Hass reads a short collection of amusing, often ironic haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. [1:32]
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Yale University

E.e. Cummings and Gertrude Stein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, maintained by Yale's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, discusses the influence of Chinese and Japanese art on Cummings' poems and paintings. Offers one example of each along with brief commentary.
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...

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