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Just 6 weeks of focusing on a particular poet?
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I know SCM recommends focusing on one poet per year for about 6 weeks. Do y’all do that? Or do you focus longer on one poet? We’ve just finished up 6 weeks with Robert Louis Stevenson. FUN!!
Also, what poetry books do y’all love that you would recommend as “must haves”?
Thank you!
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Shari
We don’t just because that is not how I divided my weeks. We just finished 7 weeks, then 6 weeks and after Christmas we take a break after each 5 weeks of school.
7 weeks was a little long! I had no more poems to read.
I get books from the Library or at book sales.
Shari, we recommend six weeks minimum, so keep having fun!
One book I often recommend is Favorite Poems Old and New, edited by Helen Ferris. We’ve used it for about 18 years now.
I do focus on one poet per 6 weeks and we cover a minimum of 4 per year. Our last term, we usually use the anthology Sonya mentioned.
Last year we did AO Y1 and did RLS most of the year and a few randome poets the rest of the year. Right now we are doing 1 poem (not poet) per week with HOD BIgger. But when we get back to AO Y2 we will do 1 poet per term as scheduled.
Thank you all so much!!!
And Sonya, I DO remember reading about that compilation!! I will be looking for that! Thank you!
His,
Shari
We focus on a poet, or two for 12 weeks at a time. That sounds long, but it’s technically only 6 weeks. Every other week we go over a new poem, or two, a bit about the poet, and practice recitation. The alternating weeks are a time to learn about poetry and practice writing our own. We’re using Poetry Practice (Rod and Staff) to do this part of our study this year. It’s working nicely. I’m sure there are other fine resources. It’s just our starting point. I’ve looked at The Grammar of Poetry and The Roar from the Other Side. PP is what I already had on hand, so it’s where I chose to begin.
Our poets this year include Kipling, Longfellow, and Whittier. Links to their poetry can be found here.
http://topsyturvytoile.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/poetry-for-2013-14/
We mostly use the Favorite Poems Old and New book or the AO poetry selections. AO’s Year 1 poems are organized by month and have a nice focus on seasons. I printed these out a few years ago and we’ve read through them a few times.
If you’re looking for a specific poet, Dover Thrift Classics have quite a few collections of poems.
We also like to read silly poems like Shel Silverstein. Joyful Noise is a fun book…it’s meant to be read aloud by two readers.
We’ve done both. But, this year, we’re typically doing poetry only once per week and reading one or more poems on that day. They can concentrate on favorites for memorization throughout the 12 weeks.
We read the specific works of one poet per term – that translates to three poets per year. We read several poems daily and when the book(s) by the chosen poet is done, we pick up where we left off in our “main” book. We have several poetry collections and we are enjoying the variety as we go.
Poetry for us is enjoyment – of the words themselves, the sounds, the feelings, the images, the memories that they can evoke. We are working on some memorization, but my main goal is to enjoy it first. Then when we find something that really means something to us, we memorize it.
For good books in individual artists that have a small biography in the front with fun and interesting poetry featured with nice art, we like this series:
This one is poetry by George MacDonald combined with artists like Mary Cassatt – put out be the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. I like it:
For littler kids, we are loving When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne (the author of Winnie-the-Pooh).
Poetry study for us consists of reading poems aloud duering tea time a couple times a week. Sometimes I will point out a literary device he is using, or make sure they understood a particularly silly or lyrical turn of phrase. Do you all do more than that? Does it change depending on kids’ ages?
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