YMB #8 Start With Wonder: A Conversation with Nicholas Ireland
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nicholas Ireland, a father of three, teaches humanities to middle schoolers at a classical school in Alabama. On this episode of the podcast, he tackles the subject of poetry.
Why is poetry important? What poems should I start with? What makes good poetry good? What if I don’t understand poetry? What questions should I ask my kids when we talk about the poems we read?
Nicholas answers all these questions and more, plus gives us enough recommendations to keep us busy reading excellent poems for a long, long time. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This is your morning basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your |
| 0:11.4 | homeschool day. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode eight of the podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I'm so |
| 0:24.3 | happy that you're joining me today. Well, today we get to talk about one of my absolute favorite |
| 0:29.6 | subjects on the show, but I realize that poetry is not something that everyone enjoys. And actually, I hope that we're here to change all of that today. |
| 0:41.5 | I think one of the number one reasons that many people don't like poetry is because they're intimidated by it. |
| 0:46.8 | Or actually, they're intimidated by the way they were taught about poetry in their educational experiences. |
| 0:57.5 | So maybe we can move past that today with some of the tips that we have on the podcast. So sit back and I hope you enjoy and maybe come away with |
| 1:03.6 | the new view of poetry and how you can share it with your children. |
| 1:18.7 | Nicholas Ireland is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where he studied humanities and philosophy. Now he spends his time teaching humanities to eighth grade boys at Providence |
| 1:24.6 | Christian School in Alabama, where he lives with his wife, Melissa, and his two |
| 1:28.9 | adorable little boys. Last spring at our local homeschool conference, he led a session all about |
| 1:34.1 | diving into poetry with your kids, and all the homeschool moms were raving about this one. |
| 1:40.1 | He's joining us today to share about how we can incorporate great poetry into our morning |
| 1:45.2 | times without fear. Nicholas, welcome to the program. Thank you. Glad to be here. Well, let's talk a |
| 1:51.2 | little bit about the importance of poetry. If I'm a homeschool mom and maybe poetry isn't my thing, |
| 1:57.5 | why is it important to do poetry with my children? Well, I'd go first if you're a parent |
| 2:04.7 | trying to educate your child in the scriptures, first of all, if that's important to you. And that was |
| 2:10.5 | the first thing that I thought about. So much of God's word is communicated through poetry. |
| 2:15.0 | The very first words that man ever spoke were poetry. This at last |
| 2:19.2 | is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. And so that's kind of a starting point for me is |
| 2:24.5 | there's something innate to our being human where we want to express things as song or as poetry |
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