Wednesday, January 11, 2006

poetry term 2


Our poet for Term 2 Year 6 per Ambleside Online is Carl Sandburg. I have found an abundant supply of books at our local library to help us in this study such as the book pictured at left, Carl Sandburg Adventures of a Poet by Penelope Niven. We have really been enjoying this book which has biographical information about Sandburg's life on one page with a poem pertaining to that area/time of his life on the opposite page.

Some of the other books of his poetry that we have include:



Poetry for Young People Carl Sandburg






and

Grassroots Poems by Carl Sandburg

This book, The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back is another that I happened to find which is actually a picture book of one of his famous Rootabaga short stories. Don't you just love the title alone? lol

Carl Sandburg's home in North Carolina is a National Historic Site and the National Park Service has a fabulous website about the home and they also have activities that children can do relating to some of his poems which also includes a teacher's hub section.

2 Comments:

Blogger Theresa said...

Those sound like interesting reads. I like Carl Sandburg and grew up a few miles from his home in NC. We went there as kids and mostly what I remember is the goats!

7:19 PM  
Blogger barbara said...

Josh and I were just reading about all those goats of his wife and daughter lol.

1:07 PM  

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