Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Mother Goose poems provide children an enchanting first venture into the world of rhyme and poetry. Well-known favorites such as Rain, Jack, Wee-Willie, Pat-A-Cake, If Wishes Were Horses, and Humpty Dumpty are joined by other lovely poems including Bees, Pippen Hill, and Pussy-cat and Queen. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, and copywork for all included 108 poems.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course features child-friendly poetry of lyrical fables, green hills, blue mountains, burbling streams, chirping birds, starry-night, sea-foam, colorful flowers, fanciful fairies, haunting dreams, and sweet home! Enjoy the captivating, charming, and sometimes spine-tingling works of famous poets such as Jean de La Fontaine, William Allingham, Henry W. Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, and copywork for all included 72 poems.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Delight in the child-friendly poetry of Lewis Carroll, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Austin, Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Abbie Farwell Brown, and Sara Teasdale. Eat oysters with the walrus and the carpenter, learn about goblins from Little Orphant Annie, visit old Peter Prairie-Dog in Prairie-Dog Town, and maroon yourself with pirates on Dead Man's Chest Island. Children study each poet and their poetry over a five-week period. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, print copywork, and script tracework for all 40 poems.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Visit mermaids by the sea with Emily Dickinson, pick apples on a crisp autumn day with Robert Frost, fight to follow your dreams with Paul Laurence Dunbar, puzzle over the mystery of the Queen of Hearts with Christina Rossetti, and venture into the wild American West with Walt Whitman. This course interweaves poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Lessons also introduce literary devices including metaphors, similes, and personification.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade poetry overviews nine literary devices: 1) Rhyming, 2) Alliteration, 3) Similes, 4) Metaphors, 5) Personification, 6) Foreshadowing, 7) Allusion, 8) Hyperbole, and 9) Onomatopoeia. This course incorporates poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Featured poets include Christina Rossetti, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade poetry overviews nine poetic forms: 1) Sijo, 2) Haiku, 3) Limerick, 4) Sonnet, 5) Epitaph, 6) Acrostic, 7) Visual, 8) Ode, and 9) Blank Verse. This course incorporates poetry, mapwork, discussion, analysis, copywork, narration, and artwork. Featured poets include Lord Alfred Tennyson, Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Lewis Carroll.
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