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Grow Your Imagination through Poetry with Cate Godlewsky
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Do you want to expand your imagination, improve your memory, and have a fun time learning and performing poems? Then this class, which reviews four poems from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic A Child’s Garden of Verses, is for you!
This course will be available in Recorded format on June 30th, 2025.
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Course Description: This course will introduce students to the wonderful world of poetry, focusing on how poems operate (introducing rhythm and rhyme) and how to read poems using your imagination. Every class, students will be introduced to a new poem by Robert Louis Stevenson and practice a different set of reading skills. Students will also practice handwriting skills by copying out a poem, work on their art skills by illustrating poems, learn new vocabulary words through careful reading and context clues, and memorize and perform at least one poem for their family. Students will also have an opportunity to try writing a poem at the end of the course!
Instructor: Catherine Godlewsky
Any copy of A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is available in many places online free, but we recommend finding a physical copy with beautiful illustrations to help the student imagine the poems.
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Grow Your Imagination through Poetry with Cate Godlewsky
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Cate Godlewsky
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Recorded
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Literature ➤ Poetry Literature
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Grade School
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June 16th, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET
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Recorded, free with subscription
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Special notes
Note to Parents: Due to the young ages of grade school students, we expect that you will accompany your child at all times while he or she is online, which includes watching recorded classes alongside your student. This will also help you assist your student with homework where necessary or help your student contact the teacher with questions. Thank you for your support!
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Prerequisites
The ability to read A Child’s Garden of Verses (Copies are available online for free. If you’d like to check your student’s reading level, simply ask your student to read you a poem and observe their ability.). Students should also be able to write in full sentences.
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Outline
Course Outline:
Class 1: What is a poem? (How to read and imagine a poem) Review Poem: “Time to Rise”
Class 2: Memorizing a poem (Introducing rhyme and rhythm) Review Poem: “The Swing”
Class 3: Learning from Poems (Introducing new words and ideas) Review Poem: “Pirate Story”
Class 4: Enjoying Poems (Performing and making poems) Review Poem: “Bed in Summer”
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Homework
After each class, the student will need to complete a poem review and activity, likely with parent assistance. This should take about an hour after each class, but one class also asks students to memorize and perform a poem for their family, so this will likely take more time depending on the student’s memorization speed.
Cate Godlewsky
cgodlewsky@homeschoolconnections.com
ASSISTANT TO PHYLLIS KIERNAN
Catherine Godlewsky is assistant to Phyllis Kiernan and does all kinds of jobs at Homeschool Connections. She works on the website, course pages, assists teachers and much more.
Professor Godlewsky has a B.A. in English from Centenary University and an M.Phil in Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin; she is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at University College Dublin. She has been tutoring and teaching, both online and in person, since 2016, when she began teaching test prep and college-level writing. Professor Godlewsky has published poems in several poetry zines, including “this is not where we belong” and “Brave Voices Magazine”, and has published an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for classroom use. She also runs a poetry podcast dedicated to the works of Emily Dickinson. Professor Godlewsky lives in Ireland, and loves going for long walks by the sea.
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