Short Version of the Poetry Page... The Official web site for DOWNTOWN ACADEMY is www.downtownacademy.org To see Mr. Mac's web site for his students, go to Mr. Mac's DATA page Let's Memorize poetry together... SEE THE HALL OF RECOGNITION (Next Page) showing names of students who have recited at least four lines from a poem... The rest of this page includes poetry for students to memorize -- SHORT FORM. You don't need to remember EVERY line, just a few lines that are special to you. AN "IF" FOR GIRLS If you can dress to make yourself attractive, Yet not make puffs and curls your chief delight; If you can swim and row, be strong and active, But of the gentler graces lose not sight; HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, perches = “sits” (like a bird. A bird sits on a branch). And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, William Blake: Memorize this… Mental Image: To see a World in a grain of sand 1. The world is important (#1) and it starts with sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, 2. Heaven is next and a flower grows UP Hold Infinity in the Palm of your hand 3. Infinity is at the END of your hand And Eternity in an Hour. 4. Eternity comes fourth and 4 quarters make an HOUR. from Auguries of Innocence That’s one way to memorize four lines in a poem… My mother especially admired the incomparably sunny Mr. Guest, and his uplifting words were always a welcome guest in our home and hearts ... CAN'T Edgar A. Guest 1881-1959 Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies. Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying, For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man; Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying And answer this demon by saying: "I can." OPTION: memorize the first and last four lines. Now go visit Mr. Mac's web page Who was the first person to fly? Aerospaceweb.org | Q and A - Who Was the First to Fly ... What can you tell me about Gustave Whitehead, aka Gustav Weisskopf? Is it true that he was the first man to fly in a controlled airplane? ... www.aerospaceweb.org/question/ history/q0159.shtml - 37k - The First Flight ... Although the Wright Brothers are credited with being the first to fly a powered aircraft in 1903, evidence is mounting that Gustave A. Whitehead took to the ... www.didyouknow.cd/wright.htm - 13k - Gustave Whitehead's Flying Machine ... Di d Whitehead really beat the Wright brothers? Did other pre-Wright inventors fly first? Many refuse to even entertain the notion ... www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/ - 8k - FLYING MACHINES - Gustave Whitehead ... READING: First-Flight Controversy by Frank J. DeLear, Aviation History, March 1996 (a fine summary of the Whitehead matter and attempts to fly Whitehead #21 ... www.flyingmachines.org/gwhtd.html - Bruce Museum : Current Exhibit ... are recognized internationally as the first to fly a powered airplane in a sustained and controlled manner. However, reports that Gustave Whitehead flew in 1901 ... www.brucemuseum.org/exhibitions/ exhibit.php?exhibit=2 - [PDF] Gustave Whitehead: First in Flight? File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML ... flyers with a focus on Connecticut’s own “aeronaut,” Gustave Whitehead. ... Orville Wright are recognized internationally as the first to fly a powered ... www.brucemuseum.org/aboutus/press/ whiteheadPR.pdf The Pioneers : An Anthology : Gustave Albin Whitehead (1874 - 1927 ... ... of aviation from the history of flight....more. Gustave Whitehead http://www.first-to-fly.com. Of all the people who claim to have ... www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ whitehead.html - Gustave Whitehead: First-Flight Controversy ... O'Dwyer cited Whitehead's use of wheels in 1901, rather than skids, as enhancing his "first in flight ... a catapult and rail system to achieve flying speed. ... www.thehistorynet.com/ahi/ blgwhitehead/index1.html - Weekly Reader Connections: Grade 4, Unit 2 ... According to Andrew Kosch, Gustave Whitehead was the first person to fly a small flying machine. ... Do you think Gustave Whitehead was the first to fly? ... www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/wr/4/wr4_02.html - |
| [IF] Click HERE FOR short version If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, .... If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won; ------ O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills; 10 For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; ---- The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; . The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. by Robert Frost William Blake. 1757-1827 TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride Mark the STRONG accent in each line. The first two lines are done for you. Put a line under the letters that you say with more force. MEMORIZE THE FIRST 5 LINES. 1Listen, my children, and you shall hear 2Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, 3On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; 4Hardly a man is now alive 5Who remembers that famous day and year. 6He said to his friend, "If the British march 7By land or sea from the town to-night, 8Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch 9Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- 10One, if by land, and two, if by sea; 11And I on the opposite shore will be, William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7) All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. THE EAGLE By Alfred, Lord Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; << crag = “the edge of a cliff << crooked = not straight Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. << azure = blue The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth. 1I wandered lonely as a cloud 2That floats on high o'er vales and hills, << VALE = valley 3When all at once I saw a crowd, 4A host, of golden daffodils; 19 For oft, when on my couch I lie 20 In vacant or in pensive mood, 21 They flash upon that inward eye 22 Which is the bliss of solitude; <<< “happiness of sitting alone” 23And then my heart with pleasure fills, 24And dances with the daffodils. By William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Langston Hughes' Mother to Son In this poem, Hughes writes about a mother speaking to her son about life's experiences. He uses the metaphor of a crystal stair. Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. |