Category: books
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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” follows the spirited Rebecca Randall as she navigates life with her aunts in Riverboro, experiencing adventure, growth, and identity exploration. This book is good for 5th grade.
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Chapter 3: A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS
“I don’ know as I cal’lated to be the makin’ of any child,” Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia’s letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. “I s’posed, of course, Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it’s just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody…
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Chapter 2 REBECCA’S RELATIONS
They had been called the Sawyer girls when Miranda at eighteen, Jane at twelve, and Aurelia at eight participated in the various activities of village life; and when Riverboro fell into a habit of thought or speech, it saw no reason for falling out of it, at any rate in the same century. So although…
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REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM: Chapter 1
“WE ARE SEVEN” The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he…
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MCGUFFEY’S SECOND ECLECTIC READER
“McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader” is a mid-19th century educational book for children, promoting literacy and moral values through engaging prose, poetry, and vocabulary exercises.
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 41: The Fishhawk
Words: Lesson: 1. The fishhawk, or osprey, is not so large as the eagle; but he has, like the eagle, a hooked bill and sharp claws.2. His color is a dark brown, with black and white spots, and his length is from twenty to twenty-two inches. His breast is mostly white. His tail and wings…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 40: The Little Harebell
Words: Lesson:‘Tell me, little harebell,Are you lonely here.Blooming in the shadowOn this rock so drear?’‘Clinging to this bit of earth,As if in mid-air,With your sweet face turned to me,Looking strangely fair?’‘Lady’ said the harebell,Nodding low its head,‘Though this spot seem dreary,Thought the sunlight’s fled. ‘Know that I’m not lonely That I ne’er despair. God is…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 39: The Bear and the Children
Words: Lesson:1. In the parlor of an inn in a small town, sat a man who had been going about with a bear. He was waiting for his supper, and the bear was tied up in the yard. 2. Up in the attic, three little children were playing together. The eldest might have been six…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey: The New Scales
Lesson 38: The New Scales Words: Lesson:
