Toolbox studies: Poetry 2

I'm planning for a short week, hopefully fun, as its still public school holidays and the kids know it. We also have a trip to the family farm something the kids always look forward to. Its a balance between keeping it moving so we don't get bored and well scratchy and having fun.

I'm hoping we can cover another lesson in poetry. This includes a bit of a catch up for my engineer he missed the first poetry toolbox, after being required to keep up in his other work.

Our model poem, keeping with Classical Writing poetry is Ben Franklin.

• Monday - Day one careful reading, work analysis, oral narration, stanzas. I need to decide if we will use the poem for copy-work or choose something from history.
  
  
• Tuesday - Review rhyme and look at the rhyme scheme for the model. Look at a Rhyming dictionary and play slug in the jug, or the rhyme game.
  
  
• Wednesday - Review Poetic Meter add Iambic meter to definitions, look at our current poems meter, Imitate meter using the Swarm of bees. (If we have to cut down to 3 days this isn't the one to shorten.)
  

• Thursday - Review stanza, look for the central thought for the stanza, write summary sentences.
  

Poetry and Patriarchs

Planning hit a hitch tonight - we'll be winging it from the teachers manual of Classical Writing Poetry tomorrow. Hubby borrowed the Student guide when he was researching for a couple of poetry classes at school. He left it on his desk. At least I'm hoping he did. Somehow that wasn't the way this evening was meant to go.

For the Patriarchs we'll be reading through the stories of Abraham

1. His call
2. God's covenant with Abraham
3. Hagar and Ishmael
4. Sodom and Gomorrah
5. Birth and Sacrifice of Issac

We've covered this all before and so in part we're reviewing, discussing and time-lining. What has been interesting is adding in "Adam and His Kin". As she retells the story she opens up various possibilities. Some of which i have cringed to read but it does add in another aspect to our studies.

Our writing project for this session is either either

• a retelling of one of these narratives based on an outline
• or an essay or praise or blame centered on one of the patriarchs.

For our art studies I'm aiming for a scene from one of these narratives. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with.