HW from 3/13/12

Due on 3/15/12:

* Your signed Reading Log is due on Thursday! I need it over Spring Break to calculate your grade for the third quarter. Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily. Mark it on your Reading Log.

* Finish all your memory work, which consists of:
+ four Bible verses (I Chronicles 29:11-13, Philippians 4:4-8, Titus 2:11-14, Ephesians 4:29-32)
+ the William Blake poem "The Lamb"
+ the first stanza of the Barry Cornwall poem "The Sea"
+ the poem you selected to memorize and recite to the class
You must have all of these items fully memorized upon our return from the break.

* Scan the following poems. Be sure to give both the rhyme scheme and the rhythmic foot. (I will email you copies of the poems as attachments to make it easier for you to print them.)


The Kitten at Play by William Wordsworth

See the kitten on the wall,
Sporting with the leaves that fall,
Withered leaves, one, two, and three
Falling from the elder tree,
Through the calm and frosty air
Of the morning bright and fair.

See the kitten, how she starts,
Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts;
With a tiger-leap half way
Now she meets her coming prey.
Lets it go as fast and then
Has it in her power again.

Now she works with three and four,
Like an Indian conjurer;
Quick as he in feats of art,
Gracefully she plays her part;
Yet were gazing thousands there;
What would little Tabby care?


The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
O wind, a-blowing all day long.
O wing, that sings so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did.
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind that sings so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field or tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!


------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 3/27: Charity
For Th, 3/29: Gabrielle

For Tu, 4/3: Luke
For Th, 4/5: Elizabeth L.

For Tu, 4/10: Lily
For Th, 4/12: David

For Tu, 4/17: Caitlyn
For Th, 4/19: Will

For Tu, 4/24: Elanore
For Th, 4/26: Shayla

For Tu, 5/1: Dylan
For Th, 5/3: Elizabeth T.

For Tu, 5/8: Jayce
For Th, 5/10: Hope

For Tu, 5/15: Zoe
For Th, 5/17: Ben

For Tu, 5/22: TBD
For Th, 5/24: TBD

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NOTE: The Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on the last class period of the month.