All course materials are provided FREE by the instructor. Includes a writing component.

Parents and students should be aware, as always, that this is a self-guided course with no instructor access. Like the other poetry courses in this sequence, this course includes detailed homework instructions and rubrics for evaluation. Parents should be prepared to have more involvement with their students' work than is often the case in Homeschool Connections courses. In an ideal world, the parent would learn alongside the student, but given the realities of busy family life, the course does offer built-in supports to make the parent's job as evaluator easy and straightforward. 

If at all possible, students should do all written work by hand, to mitigate the very real and all-pervasive temptation to use AI resources.

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Week 1: Introduction, Review, and the Couplet
Week 2: The Couplet and the Quatrain
Week 3: Quatrains and Couplets: The Shakespearean Sonnet
Week 4: Quatrain, Octet, Sestet: The Petrarchan Sonnet
Week 5: Tercets and Terza Rima
Week 6: Repeating Forms: Villanelle, Pantoum, Sestina

Handouts provided FREE by the instructor.

Homework will consist of five poems per week, to be read ideally one per weekday, carefully, with attention, multiple times, with notes to be submitted weekly. There will also be a weekly reading quiz, and a short poetry-writing exercise. Students should budget an hour, five days a week, on homework, inclusive of writing exercises and quizzes.