“Christmas Bells” Charlotte Mason Poetry Lesson
When I taught fourth grade, I loved studying Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with my students. His poem, Christmas Bells, is both beautiful and so applicable to the tragedies in the world today. It was written during the Civil War, and he had lost his wife not too long before in a fire. His son had joined the war without his blessing, and was seriously injured. Longfellow sat down and penned this poem Read More