Vocabulary is very important and must be addressed first. We suggest printing the evaluation for your child to read over that they may know beforehand what is expected of them as well as to identify, from each poem, which words they need to list and define from the dictionary or glossaries provided on the resource link below. We created a "short glossary" to make it easy to print out for a ready reference so your child will not have to be online.
Since home schoolers are normally far more advanced than public schooled
children, we suggest you use your own judgment, based on the questions of each evaluation to determine which is appropriate for your child. We suggest to start with the
Basic evaluation by the time your home schooled child reaches the age of ten.
For children interested in writing Poetry, we suggest a venture into a creative writing course that you create yourself based on the interest of your child, one that leaves room for freedom of expression, that is not a prepackaged mold. We hope to continue to provide more resources on our
resource page in that area. One can easily begin to enjoy Poetry, as young as preschool, by writing sentences that rhyme and as young as toddlers by reading fun and short poetry to them.
We now carry the best of the best books of Poetry & Prose to have in your home. It is not only a very famous book, but known and owned by everyone that loves Poetry. A first edition of this famous book runs for big bucks as it is so treasured by many.
One Hundred and One Famous Poems - With a Prose Supplement by Roy Jay Cook was originally printed in the late 1800's. Other poetry books we carry are available on our Products List, as well as Christian Mother Goose for high quality tales and rhymes for younger children.
Reading
The Methods and this entire page before you proceed will be most helpful.
Students must know or learn the following before they will be able to complete the advanced assessment forms. You can use poems from the above book or poems from any book of your choice. We suggest creating lessons
using the vocabulary words as the follows:
- Define and Classify Genre (types):
- Sonnet, Ode, Ballad, Epic, Couplet, Free Verse
- List and discuss examples of everyday language words and/or works that are literal:
- (denotation) or implied (connotation), figurative, symbolism.
- Define diction, metaphor, simile, personification, terse.
If your child loves poetry and shows an interest, you may choose to add the following to the free lessons on this website:
- Define and list examples of poems that use the following devices or sound effects:
- alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, consonance, rhyme, repetition.
- Choose one section from a poem and determine its meter and rhythm scheme.
- Study the poet:
- In what time period did they live?
- What other poems did they write or are famous for?
- What types of poems do they generally write?
- Where were they born and what kind of person do you think they were?
- (reading more than one poem for each poet will help the student discern the poet's world view)
- Read and list other poems written by the Poet you are studying. Options can include adding his life time to your time line or include in your History lesson.
Our resource page contain links to aid you and your child into further study including glossaries, Poetry Analysis, How to read a poem, etc. Remember the value in quality-vs-quantity. The subject of Poetry should be added lightly as a requirement within English but to study more than the basics should be treated as "elective" according to your child's interest and not a requirement.
The free evaluations and vocabulary can be used for tests, reviews, daily lessons or however you may choose. The free lessons are ready-made, printable forms. You may print and use freely, or save on your computer to use again or later.
