C is for Cottage Poems for Speech Night

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1 C is for Cottage Assignment 24 Handwriting This week students should complete pages in their handwriting book. Dictation Students should complete Week 24 of dictation exercises, found in the appendix. Reading, Phonics and Grammar Complete all of the material found in Lesson 24. Poetry Memorize stanza 2 of William Cowper s Dependence, which has six stanzas. To keep the lamp alive, With oil we fill the bowl; Tis water makes the willow thrive, And grace that feeds the soul. The Lord s unsparing hand Supplies the living stream; It is not at our own command, But still derived from Him. C is for Cottage Poems for Speech Night The Elixir Linus Haselbarth The Owl Lucia Volpe A Laughing Song Bhargav Talajia Alice? Mahki Roundtree Nothing Gold Can Stay Athena Nolan

2 The Camel and The Manatee John Lengkeek If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking Mikayla Young A Poison Tree Saarang Anand Hope Ana Mohan New Poems for Speech Night Laughing Song by William Blake When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; When Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing Ha ha he! When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread: Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of Ha ha he! Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. The Cat by Ogden Nash The trouble with a kitten is that Eventually it becomes a Cat. The Panther by Ogden Nash The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn't been peppered. Should you behold a panther crouch,

3 Prepare to say Ouch. Better yet, if called by a panther, Don't anther. The Manatee By Ogden Nash The manatee is harmless And conspicuously charmless. Luckily the manatee Is quite void of vanity. The Camel by Ogden Nash The Camel has a single hump, The dromedary two, Or is it just the other way, I'm never sure are you? A Poison Tree By William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Hope By Emily Dickinson

4 Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Alternate Poems for Speech Night Bitter for Sweet by Christina Rossetti Summer is gone with all its roses, Its sun and perfumes and sweet flowers, Its warm air and refreshing showers: And even Autumn closes. Yea, Autumn s chilly self is going, And winter comes which is yet colder; Each day the hoar-frost waxes bolder And the last buds cease blowing. Alice by Christina Rossetti Dancing on the hill-tops, Singing in the valleys, Laughing with the echoes, Merry little Alice. Playing games with lambkins In the flowering valleys, Gathering pretty posies, Helpful little Alice.

5 If her father s cottage Turned into a palace, And he owned the hill-tops And the flowering valleys, She d be none the happier, Happy little Alice. My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.