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Read the first stanza of the poem aloud.

What difference do you notice in the sound?

In reading the poem aloud, notice whether the syllables that you accent are the same distance apart or not.

How is it with the story of Jack?
In which do you find rhymes?
Which could you sing?

Do trees talk?

Do trees feel proud, or sad, or glad?

In which, prose or poetry, is it more common to speak of trees as talking or feeling?

In which do you find more pictures in the words, the poem or the prose ?

What pictures can you find in the first two stanzas that seem to you more like poetry than prose ?

Which do you like better, poetry or prose? Why? Which can you remember better?

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Conversation :

Study of the Poem

Tell what pictures you can find in each stanza. Make a list of all the words that describe in the second stanza. Be sure that you know what each of these words means. Try to put some other in its place and see which is better and why.

For example, in the sentence:

"The tall trees and the goodly trees raised each a lofty head." Could you use long in the place of tall? Could you use high? lofty?

Try similar experiments with goodly and lofty. Was the little fir tree right when he said, “I have not lived in vain "?

Did he do well to be satisfied with his life? Why?

Written Exercise:

Write in good sentences what you think are the differences between poetry and prose.

Write in a paragraph what lesson you think this poem teaches.

LXXIV

A DIARY

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Read:

A diary is a record kept from day to day of what one has done and what has happened, especially what has been interesting or has seemed important.

Here are a few selections from the diary of Anna Green Winslow, a little girl who lived long ago in Nova Scotia. She was visiting her aunts

in Boston and put down in her diary what interested her most. If you think her language a bit queer, remember that she wrote a long time ago, when people spoke and wrote as Anna did.

April 24th.—I drank tea at Aunt Sukey's. Aunt Stover was there. She seemed to be in charming good health and spirits.

My cousin, Charles Green, seems to grow a little fat, -pretty boy; but he is very light.

My Aunt Stover lent me three of Cousin Charles's books to read, "The Puzzling Cap," "The Female Orators," and the "History of Gaffer Two Shoes."

April 25th. I learned three stitches on net work to-day.

April 27th. I dined at Aunt Stover's and spent the afternoon at Aunt Sukey's.

June 1st. All last week till Saturday was very cold and rainy. Aunt Deming kept me within doors. There were no schools because of the election of councilors and other public doings. I saw the governor and his train of life guards ride by in state.

Conversation:

Do you think Anna had a good time visiting in Boston?

What titles do you find in Anna's diary? With what letters do they begin?

Give reasons for the use of all the capital letters used in this diary.

What was Anna's surname ? What was her given name?

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Keeping a Diary

It is well to keep a diary. It is interesting and sometimes it is very useful to be able to tell just what you did and just what happened on any certain day in the past.

You can buy a little book already prepared with a space for each day of the year, or you can take an ordinary notebook and make a diary of it for yourself. The book that you make yourself has this advantage, that you can use as much or as little space as you wish each day.

If you make your own diary, make a title page like the following:

DIARY

OF

HAROLD SMITH

FOR THE YEAR
1906.

You can adorn this page with your own designs, plain or in color.

Put as a heading over each entry the day of the week and month, as :

Monday, January 1.

Then write whatever has interested you most, what you consider the most important events of the day, and what you think you will be most likely to want to remember in the future.

Diaries are usually private, to be read by the writer only, but some people have written diaries giving accounts of great events, which many have been glad to read afterward.

If each member of the class keeps a diary as a class exercise, it would be better to write in it such things as all may be interested in. You can keep a private diary too.

LXXV

SNOW

Nouns Singular and Plural

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Observation and Conversation :

Examine some snowflakes through a magnifying glass and tell how they look. Make drawings of them.

In what way does the snow make the earth beautiful?

Tell as many ways as you can in which the snow brings happiness to boys and girls.

Did you ever build a snow fort? Tell how you made it, when you made it, where you made made it, and what you did with it. What happened to it as the days grew warmer?

Discuss with your teacher the ways in which the snow helps grown people.

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