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SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF AUG. 15, 2011 Former Michigan factory worker named U.S. poet laureatePoetic language pops up in journalistic prose when writers use metaphors and other elegant phrases. Look for colorful wording in editorials, features and even headlines.
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A new federal appointee isn't a politician, regulator or bureaucrat. Philip Levine is more interested in poetry than policy, art instead of argument. The graduate of Detroit Public Schools and former Michigan factory worker last week became U.S. poet laureate for 2011-12, a position authorized by Congress in 1985. The duties sound simple, but also challenging: Spread appreciation of poems as worth reading and writing. Levine, who lives in Fresno, Calif., and was selected by the Library of Congress, earns $35,000 to broaden the audience for poetry. Appointees generally deliver readings and other appearances around the country, as well as writing about the value of poetry. Levine's work reflects a background in a chemical plant, two auto factories and driving a truck. Later he taught English and writing at Harvard, Yale, the University of Michigan and California State.
James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, calls Levine "the laureate of the industrial heartland." (Laureate, which means someone who is honored, is pronounced LORE-ee-ATE.) Poet laureate says: "I know a great many poems that I love and that most people have never heard of. Some of them are quite magnificent." -- Philip Levine Official says: "He introduced me to a whole new world I hadn't connected to in poetry before. . . . It's a very, very American voice. I don't know that in other countries you get poetry of that quality about the ordinary workingman." -- James Billington, Librarian of Congress Professor says: "He is America's most-acclaimed working-class poet. He will bring poetry to the people through his accessible and dimensional poems about the working class, Detroit and post-industrial America. . . . Phil will make a difference in how Americans see and understand poetry." -- M.L. Liebler, Wayne State University (Detroit) Front Page Talking Points is written by
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