Quarter 2 Poem

Quarter 2's poem to memorize and recite: "The Swan and the Goose" by William Ellery Leonard

Scholars will be graded using the following criteria: poem is memorized, volume while reciting, stance while in front of class, and eye contact.  This rubric can be found below the poem.  

Recitations of the poem will happen toward the end of quarter 2 in January.

"The Swan and the Goose" by William Ellery Leonard

A rich man bought a Swan and a Goose—

That for song, and this for use.

It chanced his simple-minded cook

One night the Swan for Goose mistook.

But in the dark about to chop

The Swan in two above the crop,

He heard the lyric note, and stayed

The action of the fatal blade.

And thus we see a proper tune

Is sometimes very opportune.

Here is the rubric for grading performances: