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Editor: Laura M. Berquist
Illustrator: Christopher J. Pelicano
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03
ISBN: 0898707161
Number of pages: 493
Publisher: Ignatius Press

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Book Review: A Wonderful Resource
Summary: 5 Stars

As a classical homeschooler, poetry memorization is important to me and at one time I owned 55 poetry books just to find the right poem to memorize. We have poetry books about each subject we study: math, science, history, grammar and french. Poetry is enjoyed in our home all the time but I found I was spending too much time fretting over what to memorize. I know some people let their kids pick the poems but when I tried that my daughter only wanted to pick the two to three line poems, not really caring what they were about.

Upon another's recommendation, I purchased The Harp and Laurel Wreath. At first I wasn't very impressed, I read the introduction and looked through the selections and it sat on the shelf. I used a few poems from The Harp and Laurel Wreath but I was still pulling poetry from many sources. I finally came to the point I wanted to make my time spent preparing for our lessons for efficient and effective, that's when The Harp and Laurel Wreath came down from the shelf and became the leader in our poetry memorization efforts. The book is separated into Early Years (K-3), Grammatical Stage(4-6), Dialectical Stage (7-9) and Rhetorical Stage (10-12). The grade levels are my estimation.

I feel this is an excellent collection of poems, play excerpts, and speeches for memorization purposes. Could it be added to? What couldn't? If you are looking for one source to help you through K-12 in memorization, this is one resource to have but don't purchase this thinking it is the end all of memorization selections. Personal tastes and individual educational goals may lead you to other areas but I do feel this book is worth having along for the journey.

We do not use the dictation exercises in The Harp and Laurel Wreath because our spelling program is dictation based but it nice to have selections to fall back on if I need them. We also intend to have a solid poetry analysis course outside of The Harp and Laurel Wreath.

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