I have loved lots of things about our year at Trinity Classical School, but one of my favorite is the amount of memorization that my kids have been assigned. They have memorized hymns, passages of scripture, grammar sound-offs, science sound-offs, questions about the Bible, general knowledge facts and lots of poems! I am putting this list on our blog because I want to remember the poems that each of them have committed to memory this year. Each home day they review all of their poems so that they stay fresh in their mind.
Colton memorized:
How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
At the Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably by Hilaire Belloc
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Some One by Walter de la Mare
The Duke of Plaza-Toro by W.S. Gilbet
God and the Soldier [Author Unknown]
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Carter memorized:
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
Sea Fever by John Masefield
Shoes by Louis Untermeyer
The Glove and the Lions by James Leigh Hunt
Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Project by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
+ A poem of his own choosing called Bubble Bath
Connor memorized:
The Fool's Prayer by Edward Roland Sill
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
Casey's Revenge by Grantland Rice
Hunter memorized:
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet by Guy Wetmore Carryl
The Tiger by William Blake
Metaphysics by Oliver Herford
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
The Choir Invisible by George Eliot
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by W.R. Wallace
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
The Quality of Mercy from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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