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Visit mermaids by the sea with Emily Dickinson, pick apples on a crisp autumn day with Robert Frost, fight to follow your dreams with Paul Laurence Dunbar, puzzle over the mystery of the Queen of Hearts with Christina Rossetti, and venture into the wild American West with Walt Whitman. Targeting elementary school-aged children ages eight and up, this textbook and activity book offers thirty-six lessons interweaving poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Lessons also introduce literary devices including metaphors, similes, and personification.

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Sonja Glumich is a scientist, educator, wife, and mother who is inspired by Charlotte Mason's living works approach to homeschooling. She is the founder of Under the Home (underthehome.org), an online homeschool curriculum featuring low-cost courses in art history, poetry, prose, music, history, science, studio art, mathematics, reading, and Shakespeare. Sonja's husband, Chris, homeschools their three school-aged children using the Under the Home curriculum as featured in this book. Sonja graduated magna cum laude with bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, and computer science and later earned a master's degree in information technology. She has also completed education classes and student teaching leading to certification to teach secondary science. Sonja has experience teaching students of all ages, from preschool to graduate school, including as a middle school and high school science public school teacher. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor for Syracuse University and co-created two graduate-level cyber courses. She currently works as a computer scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her current research and education interests are security systems engineering, cyber vulnerability assessments, and everything homeschooling.

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