Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade poetry overviews nine literary devices: 1) Rhyming, 2) Alliteration, 3) Similes, 4) Metaphors, 5) Personification, 6) Foreshadowing, 7) Allusion, 8) Hyperbole, and 9) Onomatopoeia. This course incorporates poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Featured poets include Christina Rossetti, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.