1. Does Father Ryan say "old trees" with scorn or respect and love? Why? 2. Talk over the expressions "mystic gloom," 1 and "grass-grown bed." 2 "nameless and lonely tomb.” 1 does the poet mean by each? give another instance of their use. 3. What Explain the military words and 4. Sum up each stanza in a sen tence and write the best ones on the board. 5. Write on the blackboard the wars in which America has fought for her rights? 6. What have we done to help wounded or maimed soldiers to support themselves? 7. Memorize the poem for the Memorial Day program. (Manual.) 8. Recite from memory Warman's "Memorial Day" in the Fourth Reader. 9. Draw on the blackboard a border of pine trees. 10. Oral or written composition: Tell about a brave deed done by a soldier or a sailor. OLD FLAG Only those who have been The American flag saved them from a horrible death. It was not their flag, but they knew that it was a flag that always protected the needy. Will any one of those thousands of refugees be able to look at Old Glory again without a tightening of the throat and tears in the eyes? That is what our flag means to them, and what it should mean to us. Listen as your teacher reads of its wonderful story: 1 2 WHAT shall I say to you, Old Flag? You are so grand in every fold, So linked with mighty deeds of old, My throat swells at the sight of you, What of the men who lifted you, Old Flag, Who crushed the Briton's cruel will, 'Mid shock and roar and crash and scream, Who crossed the Delaware's frozen stream, Who starved, who fought, who bled, who died, Old Flag? 3 What of the women brave and true, Old Flag, Who, while the cannon thundered wild, Sent forth a husband, lover, child, Who labored in the field by day, Who, all the night long, knelt to pray, And thought that God great mercy gave, Old Flag? What is your mission now, Old Flag? To guard the right, avenge the wrong, All burdened ones of every race, Old Flag? Right nobly do you lead the way, Old Flag, Your white stripes stand for purity, We'll follow you e'en to Death's door, alien 5 (al' yễn), foreign, strange 4 avenge (a věnj′), punish Old Flag! the church of a missionary steeped1 (stept), soaked 4 mission 4 (mish' un), an errand; also throng (throng), a crowd I. Read aloud the lines that refer to events in our history. 2. Which line describes the flag in battle? Which, the flag in peace? 3. Tell what the stars, the stripes, and the colors mean. 4. What is an alien 5 shore? Where and when has our flag fought on an alien shore? 5. How does the flag make the poet feel? 6. Why did we enter the Great War? Read aloud the stanza that tells why. 7. How have women helped in war time? 8. How have boys and girls helped? 9. In what different ways can we honor the flag? 10. Memorize the poem. II. Read aloud Bennett's "The Flag goes by" and Sangster's "Old Flag" (Riverside Readers V and VI), or recite Stanton's "The Old Flag" in the Fourth Reader. 12. Read the story of the flag on page 122. 13. Hold a Flag Raising on Flag Day. (Manual.) 14. Oral or written composition: (a) The Picture I should like to paint of Old Glory, or (b) A Thrilling Incident of the Great War, told by the Flag. STORIES AND MYTHS CLEOPATRA AND THE CANDIDATE HOMER CROY Cleopatra was one of the queens of ancient Egypt. Through the ages her name has come to stand for beauty. To call a hen Cleopatra does not seem complimentary to this ancient queen, but then some hens have a good deal of character, and character often makes up for lack of beauty. As you read this story, find out why the candidate might have thought Cleopatra the Hen beautiful. "I AM going to call her Cleopatra.” Willis stood with his face pushed against the wire netting round the small chicken-pen in the Alderman back yard, watching a tall, thin-legged, ungainly hen eagerly picking up a handful of corn. Mrs. Alderman considered the hen for a moment, and smiled. "Is it her beauty that makes you think of Cleopatra?" she asked. "But she has to have some name," Willis defended himself. "I don't see that I've got to save Cleopatra for a pretty hen!" Thus Cleopatra was christened, and entered into the life of Willis Alderman. 2 She had been given to Willis by an uncle, who had discoursed on her rarity and capabilities until Willis had become firmly convinced that she was a rara avis.° She was Indian Game, so the uncle had explained, and could average five eggs a week and not half try. She was tall, a blur of black and red feathers, and was always dodging her head with nervous excitability.. Willis saw in her the forerunner of a great flock and plenty of spending-money, and was satisfied. He would rather have eggs than beauty. He explained to his mother that beauty in a hen was only feather-deep, anyway. 3 Cleopatra had longings far beyond her little world. Every other evening, at least, she would.give a cackle, a hop, and rise into the air and over the fence. Away she would go, with Willis in hot pursuit, down alleys, across yards, and into distant barns. Most hens, Cleopatra reduced speed to a science. when a boy is in pursuit, begin to flop their wings and cackle excitedly; not so with Cleopatra. She would double her wings against her sides, stretch her neck forward, and run without expenditure of breath in foolish cackling; and the way she covered ground was a marvel to Willis. He often wished they had "Marathons" for hens and offered purses to the owners. Willis was sure that he would get them all. O 4 Cleopatra had a knack for getting Willis into straits. One day she gave a cackle, took a hop, and rose into the air. Willis gave such hot chase that he ran against the city engineer's transit on the next block, where he was laying out a sidewalk, and upset it. Another time she escaped, clamped her wings against her body, and made straight for Judge Wilson's front door. When Willis got his hands round her legs, she was calmly sitting on top of the judge's piano, looking injured because some one did not play to her. "She will do me a good turn yet," Willis consoled himself; but Willis's father only smiled. |