Artful Friday in 7 QTs: A Study of Robert Frost in Words and Craft: Poetry Notebooks, Rhyme Scheme, Snowy Collages, Let it Snow Bottle and Make Your Own Snowflakes

Welcome, friends!

Happy St Valentine's Day!

With homeschooling commitments

  plus the rage of yet another stormageddeon,

 disrupting all of our schedules,

 it's been a while since I've been able to stop in!

I'm so happy to share, in another edition of Artful Friday,

 a QT post on a unit of study that we're enjoying around poetry and crafts.

We're specifically extending the works of American poet, Robert Frost,

with words, crafts, creativity.

It's been so. much. fun. to explore this way and 

I'm deciding now on our next poet of study!

Any thoughts?

So here goes:

A succinct round up of QTs around our study~

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~ Poetry Sources~

Original Text/Audio
We read and reveled in a few Frost masterpieces,
As a former English major, I still have several shelves devoted to America lit.
But these were our faves:
Robert Frost Reads

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Day

The Collected Poems

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Resources~
 getting to know the poet and his works:
We used and enjoyed~~

Toward Robert Frost

*We referred to PoemHunter and Poet.org for details as we

immersed  in his life, times and writings.

*We read and listened to his poetry again and again, discussing 

imagery and figurative language such as metaphor and simile.

**Geographically and historically speaking, we learned about 

and located his native area

(New England, USA) and pinpointed world and American events 

at the time of his birth and death.

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Poetry Notebooks

There are just sooooo
 many ways these can be instituted.So many different styles, materials,
 lessons to be learned, through this tool.

These are just the tip of the iceberg:
*writing "off" a poet's works
*decorating a poem
*copying/memorization
*illustrating a poem
*categorizing poetry by style, poet, time frame, 
setting, rhyme schemes
(discussed below.)
*comparing/contrasting poets' works
* linking other literary works to chosen pieces of poetry
*learning and cataloging literary devices through each poem, 
such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia 

Here's how we got started on ours along with some shots.
I hope you share a few ways that you use yours, if you
choose to use something like this as well!

 You would need simply 
* 3 ring binder
*construction paper
* page protector sleeves
The decorated poem slides in here nicely
* copies of the studied poems
*page dividers with tabs
*You can write the poet's name or any other category label 
on these tabs based on how
you wish to organize your binder.
*glitter, crayons, etc.....

                       

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Rhyme Scheme

Before analyzing the rhyme scheme  of Frost's poetry,

we reviewed the topic with common verses and with 

"easy scheme" poems.

For example, these are just a couple of  poems which we analyzed, copied and assigned schemes.:

 An ABCB Pattern:

Roses are red  ~ A

Violets are blue ~ B

Sugar is sweet ~  C

And so are you ~ B

Two representations of the  ABAB Pattern:

My candle burns at both ends, ~ A

It will not last the night, ~ B

But ah my foes and oh my friends ~ A

It gives a lovely light. A

~Edna St Vincent Millay

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To see a World in a Grain of Sand ~ A

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, ~ B

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand ~ A

And Eternity in an hour. ~ B 

~ William Blake

As for Frost's "Stopping By Woods on  Snowy Day," we were surprised by the uniqueness of the "behind the scenes" construction of Frost's masterpiece

Whose woods these are I think I know. ~ A

His house is in the village though;~ A 

He will not see me stopping here  ~  B 

To watch his woods fill up with snow. ~ A 

My little horse must think it queer ~ B

To stop without a farmhouse near ~ B

Between the woods and frozen lake ~  C

The darkest evening of the year.  ~ B

He gives his harness bells a shake ~ C

To ask if there is some mistake. ~     C

The only other sound's the sweep ~  D

Of easy wind and downy flake.    ~   C

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  ~ D

But I have promises to keep,  ~ D

And miles to go before I sleep,  ~ D

And miles to go before I sleep.  ~ D

We then analyzed the scheme of another of Frost's classics, "The Road Not Taken" to determine if the scheme was similar.

 What we found was surprising!

My little guy thinks Frost is a "genius" for pulling off an amazing literary gem AND sticking to such clever schemes!

So, go enjoy rhyme schemes and have some fun discovering!

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"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy  Day"
Collage

Some craftiness based on the poetry and its themes:

Here's the finished "snowy day collage"

And here are the supplies you need:

And how my little guy made his collage:

The trick is to add a marble to the paint WITH
the item you're gluing on the paper!
Try it!

Taking a cue from this lovely craft blog, we really enjoyed creating

the scene that we envisioned as we read Frost's classic

And, hanging in our back window:

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Let it Snow Bottle

Here's what you need:
*clear glue
*snowflake foamies or charms
*glitter, sequins
*bottle

Here are the steps:

 Fill  1/3 or so of the bottle with glue, then fill to the top with water.
Mix and let sit for a day or two.

In a day or so, add sequins, glitter and charms

Finished snow bottle!! ~

Now, have some fun!

We got the idea from this awesome blog

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Picture Snowflakes
with a Catholic twist!
I so loved Jen's snowy ideas over at Catholic Inspired.
Here's what we did as a take off on her creativity!
Oh my goodness, you must must must
head over to peruse the rest of her offerings!!





We'll be working more today on adding pictures to our snowy day snowflakes!

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Paper snowflakes

See the snowflakes up above by #6? 
Most of them were made by my son.....

but additionally, we reeeeeeeally tried to make 
these sonic screwdriver snowflakes.
Go there to see what they should look like!
The site warns that they're sooooo hard, they are a 
"Boy Scout Burnout " level!
Here are our tries:

Oh well...
a Whovian-Frost go at it?
Didn't work!!
But please let me know if you get it together!
We will keep at it!

I'm grateful to link to Jen's QTs as well
as the craft and homemaking hops featured on my sidebar.

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For my previous "Artful Friday" posts, 

you might like to click below.....

They're all here if you'd like to dust off something from the archives:

Study of van Gogh

Wisdom from a Violin Master

Everything You Need for a  Cezanne Study

The Arts in Our Homeschool This Week

 ( knitting, winter crafts, the theater and piano)

 Lenten, Valentine and Papal Crafts

Mercy Crosses, Lenten wreaths, Rosary Making, Music Lessons

Strings, Keys, Sketches

Strings for the Beginner

Yeats, Joyce and Watercolor with a Little Vivaldi Thrown in!

Crucifixion Paintings

A Few Resources on the Great Composers

Let's Have Some Elizabethan Fun!

Forever West: Caricatures and Street Performers on The Wharf

Autumn Tree Art

Violin School: Ode to Joy

The Art of Giving:

A Parade of Artwork for the Impoverished of Honduras

Orchestra Concert and  Fools for Christ Christmas Skit: 

Violin Resources for Fun, Classical Study and Christmas Solos!

Costumes and Monsters and Raggedy Doctors, Oh My! 
Sewing Fun for Kids!

Light up the Night with a Paper Lantern:
Doctor Who Torch!

Valentine and Snowy Craft, Books, Games

Robert Frost Unit Study:
Poetry Notebooks, Rhyme Scheme Lessons,
Glitter Stopping by Woods Snowy Bottle, 
The Road Not Taken Collage,
Make Your Own Snowflakes and More

And, my son's popular  guest posts on crafting rocket balloons,

 both of which include instructional videos:

How to Make a Balloon Dog

and

Shaping Balloons: A How-To 

I hope you get a chance to click over and enjoy one of his posts!

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