Helpful Links
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Level 1 Poem 2
“Celery” by Ogden Nash
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the story “Stone Soup” for your reading pleasure
Stone Soup.pdf
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Level 2 Poem 3
“Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably” by Hilaire Belloc
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the poem with original illustrations
http://mainlesson.com/display.php?author=belloc&book=cautionary&story=rebecca
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Level 2 Poem 6
"The Duke of Plaza-Toro" by W.S. Gilbert
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the song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GHnmWgv55ZU
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Level 3 Poem 1
“A Young Lady Named Bright” by Edward Lear
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instructions for how to write a limerick
How to Write a Limerick.pdf
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Level 3 Poem 3
“A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
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a link to study rhythm and meter in poetry
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/meter.html
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Level 3 Poem 4
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
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a link to study the poem
http://www.shmoop.com/o-captain-my-captain/
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Level 3 Poem 18
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
by Walt Whitman
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a link to the Hubble Space Telescope images
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html
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Level 4 Poem 11
“God Save the Flag” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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the lyrics to all four verses of “The Star Spangled Banner”
The Star Spangled Banner.pdf
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Level 4 Poem 18
“An Overworked Elocutionist” by Carolyn Wells
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the list of poems referenced, line by line
Overworked Elocutionist Sources.pdf
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Level 5 Speech 2
"First Oration Against Catiline" by Cicero
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more information on the conspiracy of Catiline
https://sites.psu.edu/conspofcatiline/
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Level 5 Speech 6
"Give Me Liberty" by Patrick Henry
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examples of rhetorical devices in the speech
http://www.landofthebrave.info/give-me-liberty.htm
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Level 5 Speech 15
"The King’s Speech" by King George VI
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a recording of King George VI giving his radio broadcast
https://youtube.com/watch?v=opkMyKGx7TQ
a news article providing the real story compared to the story presented in the movie The King’s Speech
http://telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8223897/The-Kings-Speech-the-real-story.html
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Level 5 Speech 16
"We Shall Fight on the Beaches" by Winston Churchill
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a recording of Churchill giving the speech
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc
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Level 5 Speech 19
"Brandenburg Gate Speech" by Ronald Reagan
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a video of Reagan giving the entire speech in Berlin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5MDFX-dNtsM
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Level 5 Speech 20
"Freedom from Fear Speech" by Aung San Suu Kyi
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a link to the text of the full speech
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Burma/FreedomFromFearSpeech.html
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