Poetry Recordings: Wes Magee

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

CC.1.3.7.B CC.1.3.7.B

Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.

CC.1.3.7.E CC.1.3.7.E

Analyze how the structure or form of a text contributes to its meaning.

CC.1.3.7.G CC.1.3.7.G

Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g. lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).

CC.1.3.7.H CC.1.3.7.H

Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

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Poetry Recordings

Click here to access the poetry recordings of Wes Magee as well as a brief biography of this author.

Description

Wes Magee (b. 1939) was a teacher when he began writing his first poems. A boy in his class complained that there were no dinosaur poems, and Wes set out to write some for him, little realizing he was to become a firm favorite in children's poetry, both as poet and editor. Several of his poems deal with Magee's experience in schools, sometimes from the point of view of the teachers, sometimes from the point of view of the pupils. From this page, you can hear the voice of Wes Magee reading three of his poems, "The Chimney Boy's Story," "The Boneyard Rap," and "Until Gran Died."

Content Provider

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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Poetry Recordings: Wes Magee