A full year (32 weeks, four days a week) or one semester (16 weeks, four days a week).
About the guide
A full year, or a semester
This Teacher’s Guide is designed to accompany the Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry curriculum.
Word Hoard teaches students to read, love, understand, and wield poetry as powerful communication. Poetry is not treated as a fragile museum piece, nor as a mere checklist of technical devices, but as elevated language ordered toward truth, goodness, beauty, to the glory of God. The course introduces students to the formal elements of poetry—rhythm, meter, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, poetic form, imagery, figures of speech, composition, and performance—so that they may become more skillful readers, writers, speakers, and word-wielders.
This Teacher’s Guide provides the practical tools needed to teach the course with confidence. It includes suggested schedules (including a full-year schedule and one-semester schedule), lesson answer keys, exams, and exam answer keys, along with guidance for using the accompanying anthology and bringing the course to completion through student composition and performance.
In the guide
Included in this Teacher’s Guide
A lesson-by-lesson answer key.
Covering the major units of the course, with answer keys.
Guidance for the anthology readings; suggestions for discussion, composition, memorization and recitation; and direction for the final performance.
The author
Joffre Swait
Joffre Swait, also known as Joffre the Giant, lives in Idaho with his wife and five children. He is the author of two poetry collections, Well Met: Poems of Companionship, and Made In the Image: Plain Poems, and is co-author of Christian Pipe-Smoking: an Introduction to Holy Incense. Joffre has a deep love for the poetry of the West, and is more ambivalent about the Norman invasion than Tolkien was. He is also the author of Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry, published by Roman Roads Press.
Publishing information
- Author
- Joffre Swait
- Publisher
- Roman Roads Press, 2026
- Format
- 8.5 × 11 in, perfect bound · 216 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-963505-32-0
The rest of the curriculum
See the whole course
Word Hoard
$20.00