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The Taking of Room A Hostage Drama in Poems. The Taking of Room A Hostage Drama in Poems By Mel Glenn Lodestar Books: Students in Mr. Wiedermeyer’s senior history class are in for a shock when they attend one of their last classes of the year. Held hostage by their gun-toting teacher, they all wonder if this might be not only.  · Taking of Room by Mel Glenn, unknown edition, A group of high-school seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher and are forced to write poems, five each, about the experience as well as about the past four years spent attending their urban high school.1/5(1).  · by Mel Glenn ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, A veteran high-school teacher cracks, holding his class at gunpoint on the last day of school in this drama-in-poetry from Glenn (Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?, , etc.).Author: Mel Glenn.

Additional verse novels by Mel Glenn include: Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems The Taking of Room A Hostage Drama in Poems. Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems Split Image: A Story in Poems. CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse - Juan Felipe Herrera. After his migrant farmworker father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives. The Taking of Room A Hostage Drama in Poems by Mel Glenn — This series of poems reflects the thoughts of school officials, parents, police, and especially a class of seniors who have been taken hostage by their high school history teacher. Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start. The Taking of Room is a beautifully written story. The idea of it being written poetically and through the various perspectives of the students in the room is very intriguing and well executed by Glenn. Some plot points are not handled very subtly. As such, there are many very real issues presented quite openly.

by Mel Glenn ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, A veteran high-school teacher cracks, holding his class at gunpoint on the last day of school in this drama-in-poetry from Glenn (Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?, , etc.). The Taking of Room by Mel Glenn ISBN ISBN Hardback; New York, Ny, U.s.a.: Dutton Juvenile, ; ISBN The Taking of Room by Mel Glenn is a gripping hostage drama that is uniquely written in poems. The setting is Tower High School in inner-city Chicago. It is the last day of school and students and teachers alike can't wait for the summer break. The school is poorly funded by the state; making it an unpleasant and sometimes dangerous place to be.