Allison Tuggle has a passion for both writing and teaching. A homeschooling mother of four, she graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, with an English degree and wrote her honors thesis on children’s literature. She has worked as a writing consultant and taught language arts in a private school classroom. More recently, her focus has been on homeschooling her own children, grades 1, 2, 6, and 8. She teaches a middle school level writing class in her home and serves on the leadership board of her local co-op.
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Opening the Door to Poetry: In this course, we will learn how to read and think about poetry. You will read a variety of poems and hopefully find some that you really love. You may also find a few you don’t like much, but overall you will grow more familiar with poetry. Additionally, this course will include vocabulary, discussion of literary devices such as metaphor and simile, opportunity for copy-work and memorization, and writing activities.
