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NicKatMommy
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Posted: June 10 2013 at 11:46am | IP Logged Quote NicKatMommy
We have been memorizing a poem over a 2-week period and reciting for DH at the end. DS has been copying the poem over the 2-week period and at the end making a title page (title and author) with picture, DD who is younger traces over my title and author on her title page and colors a picture. We are collecting these all together. These poems have been DS's introduction to copywork.

Question ... my DS is advancing to much longer poems (we follow a combination of MODG and Ambleside poetry lists). Shall I continue with his memorizing his poems over 2-week period, reciting at the end, and perhaps a title page/drawing for keepsake in the poetry book, but no longer have him copy the entire poem? It seems too long to effectively use for copywork.

Should I switch to shorter things for copywork, for example the list in Harp & Laurel Wreath for memorization and dictation so that we can make copywork about beautiful writing and basic grammar? One last caveat, we are transitioning to cursive and I'm inclined to have him copy in cursive. Thoughts?

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Posted: June 15 2013 at 10:47am | IP Logged Quote SallyT
Your plan sounds like a good one to me: keep up the memory work and go with the longer poems, but spread out in copywork to include more kinds of writing. And if you're transitioning to cursive and want him to use that, then I would definitely have his copywork be in cursive.

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