Wheeler's Directive:"Learn to spell the words in the following lines." Study how short e (ĕ) is spelled with ea in spread and head, while long i (ī) is spelled with -ye in rye and -igh in high.
“Here blossoms the clover, white and red,
Here the heavy oats in a tangle spread;
And the millet lifts his golden head.
Here are fields of barley and of rye,
And the yellow wheat grows strong and high.”
— Phoebe Cary
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2Lesson 115 — Continued: Hans Christian Andersen's Harvest Allegory
Simile • Metaphor • Danish Fairy Tale Classic
Study & Observe: Read Andersen's poetic prose. Notice the beautiful simile describing ripe oats ("like a flight of little yellow canary birds") and the harvest proverb in the final sentence.
“In the fields around the willow grew different kinds of grain, — rye, wheat, and oats: pretty oats that, when ripe, looked like a flight of little yellow canary birds sitting on a branch. Plenty had blessed the harvest, and the fuller the ears of grain the lower they bowed their heads.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
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3Verbatim Dictation: Transcribe Andersen's Famous Proverb of Humility
Moral Allegory • 3 Lines • 26px Standard Penmanship
“Plenty had blessed the harvest, and the fuller the ears of grain the lower they bowed their heads.”Standard 26px Baseline • 13px Dashed Midline