You may have noticed in class that I spend a lot of time talking about poems and the poets who wrote them. One of the reasons is that I...

Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” What do you like to read? Poetry? Detective and mystery? Or works by classic authors, such as Charles...

In the first two PQFTDs, we talked about firsts: the first American poet (Anne Bradstreet) and the first known English poet (Caedmon). We...

Caedmon We talked about the first known American poet, Anne Bradstreet. But what about the first English poet? Although the epithet...

Anne Bradstreet In this our first blog on poets and poetry for the 2024 Poetry Contest, scheduled in January, we begin at the...

Many parents and teachers view poetry as icing on the cake, and it is rare to find elementary or middle school classrooms that give a lot...

With the exception of my 4th-grade year, I’ve been homeschooled almost all of my life. One distinct memory is that if I told anyone I was...

If you search online,“how to be productive,” most likely many articles will come up on the helpfulness of writing lists. These websites...

While I know of some notable exceptions, homeschooling families as a general rule seem to have a remarkable talent for showing up late....

Thomas Hooker (1586?-1647), an English nonconformist preacher, emigrated to America, where he remained a pastor and preacher. On his...