english language arts
Writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, memory work & elocution, penmanship & typing
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Videos: Excavating English playlist
French in Louisiana
Basque: the oldest living language in Europe, and What Basque sounds like compared to other languages
Le français parlé au Québec
Videos: Excavating English playlist
French in Louisiana
Basque: the oldest living language in Europe, and What Basque sounds like compared to other languages
Le français parlé au Québec
Poems and speeches memorized
- Apollinaire, Guillaume Le dromadaire
- Atxaga, Bernardo Trikuarena (The Hedgehog)
- Belloc, Hilaire The vulture
- Blake, William A poison tree
- Brooke, Rupert Heaven
- Carême, Maurice Le chat et le soleil
- Carroll, Lewis Jabberwocky
- Carryl, Guy W. The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven
- Cén Sēn 岑参 Qì Zhōng Zuò 碛中作
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan
- Ciardi, John About the teeth of sharks
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius In Catilinam Oratio Prima
- Cuī hù 崔护 Tí dūchéng nán zhuāng 题都城南庄
- D'Aquin, Saint Thomas Prière de Saint Thomas D’Aquin avant l’étude
- de Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris La guenon, le singe et la noix
- de La Fontaine, Jean Le corbeau et le renard
- Le lion et le rat
- de Morgan, Augustus The siphonaptera
- du Bellay, Joachim Sonnet XXXI Heureux qui, comme Ulysse
- Fisher, Aileen Valentines
- Florian, Douglas The bat
- Frost, Robert Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
- Fyleman, Rose Singing time
- Guillevic, Eugène Le glyptodon
- Heaney, Seamus Lightenings viii
- Hugo, Victor Extrait de l'Expiation
- Khayyam, Omar Quatrain The moving finger writes from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Lǐ bái 李白 Jìng yè sī 静夜思
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The tide rises, the tide falls
- Luò Bīnwáng 骆宾王 Yǒng é 咏鹅
- Magee, John Gillespie High flight
- McCrae, John In Flanders fields
- Mearns, Hughes Excerpt from The little man who wasn't there ("Antigonish")
- Mèng Hàorán 孟浩然 Chūn xiăo 春晓
- Moore, Clement Clarke A visit from St. Nicholas
- Nash, Ogden Celery
- Nelligan, Émile Soir d'hiver
- Panard, Charles-François L'indiscrétion
- Prévert, Jacques Être ange c’est étrange
- Page d'écriture
- Qián Hètān 钱鹤滩 Míngrì gē 明日歌
- Rands, William Brighty Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
- Rosetti, Christina Who has seen the wind?
- Roy, Claude Bestiaire du coquillage
- Sandburg, Carl Fog
- Shakespeare, William Sonnet XXIX When in disgrace with fortune
- Excerpt from King Richard's speech, Act III Sc. 2, The tragedy of King Richard the Second
- Excerpt from Macbeth's soliloquy, Act II Sc. 1, Macbeth
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe Ozymandias
- Stevenson, Robert Louis Whole duty of children
- Requiem
- Stodart, M.A. One thing at a time
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord The eagle
- Unknown author Chinese wedding blessings Zhù nǐ hé xīnláng 祝你和新郎
- Wáng Zhīhuàn 王 之 涣 Dēng guàn què lóu 登鸛雀樓 (At Heron Lodge)
- Whitman, Walt A noiseless patient spider