Teacher Master Key • Lesson 108Memory Lesson • Margaret E. Sangster's Lyric • Orthoepic & Lexical Analysis • Page 60
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INSTRUCTOR REFERENCE KEY |
| Word | Part of Speech / IPA | Syllables | Phonetic & Orthographic Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Oh | Interj. /oʊ/ | Oh (1) | Open vowel sound expressing emotional apostrophe / address. |
| 2. where | Adv. /wɛər/ | where (1) | Digraph wh- with air-glide vowel. |
| 3. are | Verb /ɑːr/ | are (1) | Irregular present plural of be; r-controlled vowel. |
| 4. you | Pron. /juː/ | you (1) | Second person pronoun with digraph ou = /uː/. |
| 5. going | Part. /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/ | go · ing (2) | Open base go (/ɡoʊ/) + inflectional suffix -ing. |
| 6. dear | Adj. /dɪər/ | dear (1) | Vowel team ea expressing affection; r-controlled. |
| 7. little | Adj. /ˈlɪtəl/ | lit · tle (2) | Doubled tt before consonant-le syllable (-tle). |
| 8. bird | Noun /bɜːrd/ | bird (1) | Target ĩ word: R-colored vowel /ɜːr/ + voiced /d/. |
| 9. hurry | Verb /ˈhʌri/ | hur · ry (2) | Doubled rr protecting short ŭ; final y = /i/. |
| 10. away | Adv. /əˈweɪ/ | a · way (2) | Unstressed prefix a- + base with vowel digraph -ay. |
| 11. leaf | Noun /liːf/ | leaf (1) | Vowel team ea representing long ē (/iː/). |
| 12. pretty | Adj. /ˈprɪti/ | pret · ty (2) | Doubled tt dividing short ĭ and vowel suffix -y. |
| 13. maple | Noun /ˈmeɪpəl/ | ma · ple (2) | Open accented syllable ma- + consonant-le (-ple). |
| 14. stirred | Verb /stɜːrd/ | stirred (1) | Target ĩ word: 1-1-1 rule doubles r before -ed. |
| 15. sweet | Adj. /swiːt/ | sweet (1) | Vowel team ee (/iː/) following blend sw-. |
| 16. golden | Adj. /ˈɡoʊldən/ | gold · en (2) | Base noun gold + adjectival suffix -en (made of / like gold). |
| 17. sunshine | Noun /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/ | sun · shine (2) | Compound: base sun + base shine (split digraph i_e). |
| 18. to-day | Noun/Adv. /təˈdeɪ/ | to · day (2) | Prepositional prefix to- + noun day (digraph -ay). |
• The Author: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was a prominent 19th-century American poet and editor of Harper's Bazaar (1889–1899). Her verse was celebrated for its tender lyric observation of the domestic and natural worlds.
• Thematic Conflict: The child observer sees only the “sweet golden sunshine” and the red maple tree upon which “not a leaf has stirred,” wondering why the bird is in such haste. The bird, obeying seasonal instinct, departs before the impending frosts of winter.
• Acoustic Cadence: Sangster uses the exact r-colored vowel /ɜːr/ to bind the first and third lines together (bird ↔ stirred).
• Spelling Discipline: While bird is a simple base word, stirred tests the student's mastery of inflectional morphology: doubling the final r of stir before suffix -ed.
1. Memory Recitation & Transcription (7 pts): Reproduces all 4 lines of Sangster's stanza verbatim without omissions or line transposition.
2. Diacritic Tilde Precision (5 pts): Correctly marks the tilde (ĩ) over the i in both bird and stirred.
3. Penmanship & Midline (4 pts): Letters sit firmly on baseline; lowercase tops reach the 13px dashed midline without collision.
4. Orthographic Conventions (4 pts): Capitalizes each poetic line; preserves punctuation (question marks, commas, period, hyphen in to-day).
• Seasonal Inquiry: “Why is the little bird hurrying away if not a leaf has stirred and the sunshine is golden?” (The bird feels the approach of autumn and begins its southward migration).
• Orthographic Doubling: “How do we spell the past tense of 'stir'? Why does 'stir' double its final consonant while 'chirp' does not?” (1-1-1 rule: stir ends in single vowel + single consonant; chirp ends in two consonants).
• Hyphenation History: “Why did Wheeler's speller print 'to-day' with a hyphen? How do we write it modernly?”