Toolbox: Poetry weeks 3 & 4

This weeks poems will be the Coming of Spring and the Fox and the Bunch of Grapes. the first seems timely. Hopefully we have had our last ski modified week and we can settle into a normal routine. I certainly hope so. So working from Classical Writing(CWP): Poetry for Beginners.

• Day one: Read through the coming of spring carefully using the guidelines in (CWP). Discuss, look up any foreign words. Continue onto Rhyme schemes which for this week covers a review of using a Rhyming Dictionary and introduces the Thesaurus for writing poetry. (Is it going to be an issue that I only have one rhyming dictionary.) We then can work on building rhymes.
  
  
• Day two, review meter, and identify the meter in the poem. Begin imitation using word substitution. Look at stanzas and write summary sentences for the poem.
  
  
• Day Three: Read through the Fox and the Grapes. Discuss. Continue working with rhyme schemes. If possible extend the lesson to cover imitation of meter to allow time on day to work with couplets.
  
  
• Day 4 Complete work from day three imitation of meter. Work on couplets. Aim to spend as much of the available time exploring and writing.