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Classically Homeschooling Poetry for the Grammar Stage (Memoria Poetry) {Review}

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In the past few years, the well known Latina Christiana publisher has branched out even further in their pursuit of providing a full curriculum. This time, they are providing impressive poetry materials. Memoria Press is one of my favorite companies to work with and I’m proud to share my affiliate links with you throughout my reviews. You can also use the coupon code cherryblossom to let them know I sent you! Today, I want to take the time to tell you about Poetry for the Grammar Stage. Later this week, I will tell you all about Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature.

This year, my oldest is continuing her trek through a combination of the Classical Core Curriculum for Third Grade and entering into the Fourth Grade lesson plans. We are about a week away from her being fully immersed in the fourth-grade segment. In these plans, she is making use of Poetry for the Grammar Stage. We are blessed to receive a review copy of the guides for this student. Later on, I actually purchased the Anthology to go along with the Teacher Manual and Student Guide; it is a great newly published addition to have alongside our study.

With the Classical Core Curriculum Lesson Plans, the study of Poetry is wrapped right into the Literature lessons. Quite often on a Friday, we take the time to study a poem related to what we are reading. For instance, while reading Farmer Boy for our literature choice we studied The Happy Farmer for our poetry selection.

Classically Homeschooling Poetry for the Grammar Stage (Memoria Poetry) {Review}Poetry for the Grammar Stage by Laura Bateman, Dayna Grant
Series: Memoria Press Poetry

Also in this series: Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature
Genres: Educational Resources, Poetry
Published by Memoria Press on 2018
Format: Paperback
Source: Memoria Press
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This poetry book is intended for use in the grammar school years as a supplemental study of the poetry students memorize in our literature study guides. Poetry study includes questions to help students analyze meanings of the poems, including vocabulary work. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book over a four-year period.

When we start our earliest learning adventures poetry is a very big part of everything that we are learning with Mother Goose, Hailstones & Halibut Bones, and more. Repetition and imagery are just a few elements that bring joy and vision into our classroom. Moving forward to further and deeper poetic understanding is a natural progression and a fascinating one at that. More than with our Literature Guides alone, my daughter is learning to dig deeper with full comprehension and mastery within the Poetry for the Grammar Stage guide.

In Poetry for the Grammar Stage (the orange set), poems cover material related to other subjects being studied in the grammar grades including Astronomy, Book of Insects, What’s that Bird?, Book of Trees, and Literature of Farmer Boy, Charlotte’s Web, The Moffats, Heidi, Lassie Come-Home, King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Hobbit, Anne of Green Gables, and American Studies. (For random reference, Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature in 7th Grade is a hunter-green set. The Primary Anthology is the brilliant blue one.)

With each poetry selection within the Student Guide, the poem is presented, there is a section for artistic interpretation, copybook space to copy the poem, vocabulary, analysis with matching exercises, and comprehension questions.

The Teacher Manual by Laura Bateman & Dayna Grant is identical to the Student Guide with the answers to matching exercises and comprehension questions filled in with appropriate answers. In both guides, there is a How to Teach a Poem section written by David M. Wright. (Wright is the author of the Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature set.)

I have fond memories of snuggling up while reading Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose and now we are making memories as we snuggle and read from the Anthology here. Moving to table work to further discuss the poem and write it out really pulls more thoughts and concepts from the page. In my own youth, I loved annotating poetry and I cannot wait until we get to that stage in later middle school and so on with books such as Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature.

Getting my daughter to work on comprehension assignments has always been a bit of a chore. When I told her that I was going to be reviewing the American Literature set and that it would be the perfect time to finally write a review of the Grammar-Stage set, she enthusiastically started working harder, knowing that I would be sharing photographs of her completed work and pages. We have also since started our study of The Book of Astronomy, which as I mentioned previously is featured in the poetry selections.

Poetry is dear to my heart and as a teen poet, I have always looked forward to sharing it with my students. We have a plethora of poetry and storybooks but have not really studied poems before now. The Poetry for the Grammar-Stage is an excellent introduction for Classical Education for poetry. Through this program and the Memoria Press designed lesson plans, my daughter is listening, reading, re-reading, and digging deeper for comprehension and mastery. We are also really trying to see if she can memorize some if not all of the poems set aside by the selections from Memoria Press.

As a classically educating family, this program is excellent for our needs. Copying down the different format of paragraphs with poetry while discussing the rhyming schemes works well. For the longer segments, I was planning on breaking it up over several days, but right now she often wants to just take extra time to spend on poetry. It was actually amusing and frustrating as I was telling her that she is supposed to do Literature study every day and Poetry study about every other Friday. However, what she currently wants to do is Literature once every three weeks and Poetry every. single. day! We have been trying to compromise and get back to good standing.

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The Creative Madness Mama also known as Margaret is a Christian Stay-at-home Mama, married to the Enginerd, quilter, cross stitcher, avid reader and book-a-holic. As book blogger for various publicists, she loves to share the latest and greatest about books coming out as well as her needle art and other crafty projects with some pictures of her fourteen-year-old AppleBlossom, twelve-year-old OrangeBlossom (the Princess), nine-year-old Almond Blossom (the Rascal boy!), six-year-old (red) Mermaid Warrior, the four-and-a-half-year-old Viking Dragon, and Huckleberry (due in June 2024!) in between. Homeschooling, cloth diapering, breastfeeding, babywearing, bone broth brewing, tea drinking, list making mama full of a little creative and a lot of madness.

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