When coals beneath the kettle croon, And clap their hands and dance in glee; To tell you when it's time for tea. The world is such a happy place And never, never sulk at all. -Gabriel Setoun. Exercises 1. Judging from the poem, what kind of temper and disposition had the author of this poem? If a poet was sulky and ill-tempered what kind of a poem would he be likely to write? What other poems do you know that have a cheerful and happy tone? 2. This poem itself has a musical rhythm. Name the rhyming words. How they are arranged in the lines. Compare the first stanza and the last. 3. Write in your own words the main thought of the poem. Give your own reason for agreeing with the author, or for differing from his chief sentiment. 4. Notice the large number of short words that may be difficult to spell correctly, such as, very, busy, chirp, eaves, twitter, boughs, climb, gaily, whistles, music, until, brook, tire, listen, dumb, croon, glee, etc. 5. Find the other homonym that goes with each of the following words: boughs, not, flour, sea, wave, tire, rain, pane, their. STUDY 3 PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD 1. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. 2. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4. And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsover is right I will give you. And they went their way. 5. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. 6. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 7. They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. 8. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. 9. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 10. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. 11. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, 12. Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 13. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? 14. Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. 15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 16. So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Exercises 1. Read the story through and be prepared to tell the whole in connected form. In the preparatory reading of the story in the class, the dialogue form may be acted. 2. In reading this story through notice the Old English forms, as, ye, hath, thou, thine, etc. Observe that, in this old style, quotation marks are not used. Write the whole story in modern form, dividing it into four paragraphs, as follows: First paragraph, verses 1-2. Laborers sent into the vineyard. Second paragraph, verses 3-7. The late comers. Third paragraph, verses 8-12. Paying the laborers; complaint. Fourth paragraph, verses 13-16. The answer to the complaint. Use modern forms in place of the Old English forms, as, you for ye, etc. Put in quotation marks where needed. 3. Memorize the first three verses of the story in the original and come prepared to write them correctly from memory. In doing this first study the punctuation marks as given. 4. Make sentences showing the proper use of the following words: give, gave, have given bear, bore, have borne come, came, have come do, did, have done work, wrought, have wrought take, took, have taken is, was, have been shall, should, will, would are, were, have been 5. Collect pictures of laborers in the fields, forests, etc., for class discussion, as suggested by the following topics: In the cotton-fields, Corn-fields and wheat-fields, Rice plantations, Irrigation ranches, Fisheries, Lumbering and sawmills, Mining camps, Vineyards and peach orchards, Ships and sailors, Harbors with docks and wharves. STUDY 4 DICTIONARY STUDY (Recall previous lesson on this topic.) Observe first of all the general plan and arrangement of subjects in the dictionary. In using the dictionary we shall be helped by studying |