THE LIVING FIRE: CONTEMPORARY CATHOLIC WRITERS FOR THE CLASSROOM: SERIES PACKAGE
The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom: Series Package includes:
- The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom: Selected Works
- The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom: Dana Gioia
- The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom: Sarah Cortez
The Selected Works book contains two curated sets of poems, each written by the living Catholic writers Sarah Cortez and Dana Gioia. We invite teachers and students to delight in this sampling of contemporary sacramental poetry. Accompanying this collection are two separate instructional units, one for each set of poems featured here. In addition to the poems themselves, this Selected Works volume includes questions for reflection and discussion. The poems, questions, and critical material gathered here encourage readers to contemplate the mystery of God’s creation, and to locate our place in the cosmos as beings made in the image and likeness of a good and loving God.
The Dana Gioia and Sarah Cortez instructional unit plans include: suggested activities; writing prompts; vocabulary for scaffolding reading comprehension; challenges for advanced and ESL students; activities that appeal to different learning styles; and critical thinking discussion questions with suggested responses and considerations. The five lessons in this unit offer students and teachers a chance to discover—or rediscover—the enchanting, incarnational joy of poetry.
