Mud River - Softcover

Judy Light Ayyildiz; Rebekah Woodie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931642191 ISBN 13: 9780931642197

Publisher: Lintel, 1988

Synopsis

This Middle School cross-curriculum Writing Workbook has been designed to help teachers, substitute teachers, home school parents who want a fun and simple way to challenge students and to strengthen students' critical thinking skills. Students are challenged to write stories and poems, design projects, work math problems, conduct surveys, do research, and more. The lessons presented can be completed by students in a relatively short period of time with materials that are readily available. Each two or three-page lesson also includes suggestions for extensions that may be completed over a longer time period. The activities focus on a diversity of topics such as using figures of speech, imagery, and alliteration; budgeting time and money; solving and creating secret codes; the environment; food chains; genealogy; probability; interpersonal relationships. The format of each lesson enables the teacher to easily see the content and activities involved. Each lesson features a teacher page and one or two reproducible student activity pages. The teacher pages include the purpose and focus of the lesson, suggestions for ease in implementing the lesson, and extensions that increase the students' understanding of the lesson or provide opportunities for students to apply what they have learned. The student activity pages contain interesting and relevant activities that require students to work in different situations and in different ways. Depending on the activity, students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups. The skills emphasized in this writing workbook include problem solving, visualizing, defining, synthesizing, listing, recalling, examining, planning, formulating, and applying.

About this title

From the Author:

"Mud River is memorable...capable of telling a horror story... especially when plopping the thing into a basket of flowers."--Black Water Review
This mostly free verse collection contains my childhood and adolescent and adult life memories in WV and VA as well as  flashes of Poland 1978 with the National Alliance of Art Educators. Most come from startling experiences in which I wrote to find deeper meanings to my journey.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications

in which these poems first appeared: The New York

Quarterly; The Northeast Journal; Artistic License; Artemis; Gusto;

The Roanoke Review; Kalliope; The Roanoker Magazine; Cargoes;

Green's Magazine; Driftwood East; South Florida Poetry Review;

Collage; Still Life Anthology of Roanoke County Schools. Several

of the poems have been "hung" at art exhibitions in The Living

Gallery and in Roanoke College; and several have appeared in

Smuggled Seeds (New York: Gusto Press, 1979. "Kore" and "He

Sang" were included in a presentation of orchestra and drama

aired on public television. "Cappadoccia" was included in the

Third World Anthology by Pig Iron Press.

Photo copyright 1988, 2009 by Jeri Rogers

Art copyright 1988, 2009 by K. Kamal Ayyildiz

Design and layout by Rebekah Woodie

Mechanicals by Ann Glover

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From the Inside Flap:

Mud River rests the same wondering, analytical eye on both past and present, drawing us into time and place so deftly that at certain moments we are the poet, remembering her grandfather, a small man full of opinions told with a slickikroned/flatstated tone and meant /to straighten out his world. Or an aunt, never known, dead at fourteen in a car wreck, but resurrected in family memory: I've always seen you/ like a skylark shot up/ in wide surprise/ spiraling in uneasy flight. In "Requiem, Auschwitz 1985," past terror and present emptiness meet in a passionate lament: Three million/ candles cannot rekindle even one/ bright eye gone ash out of that furious/ tunnel into night.

Ayyildiz also takes a wry look at the process of writing, not writing, going out for the mail instead. A poet who will drink at any well,/ mix it with almost anything, Ayyildiz watches what goes on, goes past, and reports it with unerring clarity. In "Halloween," Winds/ iron down corn-vacant/ crow-scarce fields.

These are the poems of a writer whose understanding of the world is visual as well as verbal. She sees, and then with a relentless and beautiful voice, makes us see, too.

 

Amanda Cockrell, poet, author of ten novels, Director of Children's Literature Program at Hollins University, Managing Editor of The Hollins Critic

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Lintel
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0931642191
• ISBN 13: 9780931642197
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 79
• Editor: Jerry Aten
• Illustrator: Desiree Shaffer