Poetry Days

I decided today that I should start having a poem of the week. I already do several things to help vary the class routine: This Day in History, or This Day in Music as I've switched it to this year, Bow Tie Friday. Reading a poem aloud would be a nice change of pace, providing a solid moment of reflection and a celebration of the spoken word. And it has the added benefit of making me read more poetry..."though teaching, we learn," as Seneca said.

I haven't decided if it should accompany Bow Tie Friday or appear some other day of the week. Wednesday, a mid-week reminder in the midst of the stress of two more days of school! to pause and reflect? It isn't as if we don't have any regular observances of beauty at the school, each year students memorize a poem for the Fine Arts Festival and we started singing a Psalm or hymn every morning in the upper school to start our day.* Some of the rhetoric teachers also teach the students Psalm settings in their theology and literature classes. I don't have the musical credibility** to do that, but I'm good enough to find a poem!

Where and when to begin...

* Because everyone sounds great at 8 A.M. Considering warm ups in the car.
** You could probably read that comment as confidence; I would likely argue both.