Writing Poetry

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  • January 18, 2015 at 9:49 pm
    Amber
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    My daughter, almost ten, would like to learn about writing poetry. What are some CM resources/approaches to this?

    January 19, 2015 at 6:40 am
    Bookworm
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    The Roar on the Other Side, Suzanne Clark.  Let her play around with that for a while. If she wants to continue after she’s done, Rules for the Dance, Mary Oliver.

    January 19, 2015 at 7:27 am
    missceegee
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    We study poets each term, but have never attempted writing in the style of. However, you could ask her to narrate and try to imitate the author’s style or poetic device.

    Not necessarily CM, but I’m teaching the poetry unit from Jump In! to a group of 4 teens. We learned about Haiku last week and they are writing 4 before we move on to another style. Simple, but effective for teaching some of the technical aspects. These are neat, too – http://jimmiescollage.com/2010/01/poetic-devices-reference-minibook/

    January 19, 2015 at 9:56 am
    Linabean
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    Well,  this resource wasn’t recommended to me by anyone CM.  I just found it super cheap at a library sale and thought I would try it out.  I broke down the chapters into the different topics and gave a small assignment based on what was taught in the book but CMified it as much as I could.  My daughter went through it and seemed to enjoy it.  She was age 10/11 at the time.

    It is called How To Write, Recite and Deligt In All Kinds of Poetry by Joy N. Hulme and Donna W. Guthrie.   It includes paintings by artists past and present as well as many poems written by kids from grades 1-5.  We found it to by written in a conversational tone to the student,  has lots of examples, is spoken using simple and clear language but is quite thorough.

    Just thought it would be worth mentioning, as it was useful and effective for us.  HTH.

    -blessings! Miranda

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