The Music of the Hemispheres
by Michael Clay Thompson Author
(From Amazon): Subtitled Poetics for Young Children For gifted/talented children grades 3 and 4 (from rfwp.com website) This introduction to poetry emphasizes that poetry demands a whole-brain appreciation. Among featured topics in this volume are: Sound in language Rhyme, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme. Alliteration Meter: the foot, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl. Stanza: sonnet, quatrain, couplet, ballad. Poetic techniques: simile and metaphor. Poets quoted include: Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns; William Shakespeare; Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780880926560
- Print Status
- In Print
- Daily Lessons
- 32
- Pages
- 144
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 4th
- Publisher
- Royal Fireworks Press
- Copyright
- 2004
- Written
- 2004
- URL
- http://www.rfwp.com
Daily Lessons
- 1 TM p. 156-157, Poetry Pretest
- 2 Chapter 1: The Music of the Hemispheres pp. 6-48
- 3 Discussion, TM pp. 162-163
- 4 Chapter 2: Rhyme Time pp. 49-63
- 5 Discussion, TM pp. 164-165 and TM pp. 154
- 6 Activity: TM p. 155, Rhyme #1
- 7 Activity: TM p. 155, Rhyme #2
- 8 Chapter 2: Alliteration pp. 64-79
- 9 Discussion, TM pp. 166-167 and TM pp. 154
- 10 Activity: TM p. 155, Alliteration #1
- 11 Activity: TM p. 155, Alliteration #2
- 12 Chapter 3: Meter pp. 80-96
- 13 Activity: TM p. 155, Meter #1
- 14 Chapter 3: Meter pp. 97-106
- 15 Discussion, TM pp. 168-169 and TM pp. 154
- 16 Activity: TM p. 155, Meter #2
- 17 Chapter 4: Stanza pp. 107-116
- 18 Discussion, TM pp. 170-171 and TM pp. 154
- 19 Activity: TM p. 155, Stanza #1
- 20 Activity: TM p. 155, Stanza #2
- 21 Chapter 4: Personification, Similes, Metaphors pp. 117-131
- 22 Discussion, TM pp. 154 Figures of Speech #1 & #2
- 23 Activity: TM p. 155, Figures of Speech #1
- 24 Actifity: TM Group Activity "The Storm" pp. 174-175
- 25 Chapter 4: Personification, Similes, Metaphors pp. 132-137
- 26 Discussion, TM pp.
- 27 Activity: TM p. 155, Figures of Speech #2
- 28 Chapter 4: Poems pp. 139-144
- 29 Discussion, TM p. 174
- 30 Discussion, TM pp. 172-173 and TM pp. 154 Figures of Speech #3 & #4
- 31 Activity: TM p. 155, Figures of Speech #3
- 32 Post Test
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