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| Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor |
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| Close-up view of the above painting |
I love the soft pastel colors in our painting today by Fitz Henry Lane titled "Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor". The second picture here is a close-up for detail or you can click here and click the enlarge to the bottom left of the picture to look closely at details. If you want to use prepared lesson plans for this painting check out Pictures Worth Talking About for elementary lesson plans. Actually this site has four different lessons, for this blog I'm only using #4 but you can use any of them that you like. I found quite a bit of interesting information on this site, about the painting as well as about the area and the artist. This site compares two paintings with the same name, painted of the same rocks but with different boats and at different times of day. If you click on the interactive feature here (right under the picture) you can find detailed information about the boats and the land features - just click on the numbers you are interested in.
Today we will listen to Henry Purcell Sonatas.
I also found a documentary about Henry Purcell and his music that you might find interesting.
I found Rose Fyleman's poem "If You Meet a Fairy" read on Youtube - here. Or you can read it yourself....
If You Meet A Fairy
IF you meet a fairy
Don't run away ;
She won't want to hurt you,
She'll only want to play.
Show her round the garden,
Round the house too,
She'll want to see the kitchen
(I know they always do).
Find a tiny present
To give her when she goes,
They love silver paper
And little ribbon bows.
I knew a little girl once
Who saw twenty-three
Playing in the orchard
As jolly as could be.
They asked her to dance with them
To make a twenty-four ;
She ran to the nursery
And hid behind the door.
Hid behind the nursery door
(What a thing to do !)
She grew up very solemn
And rather ugly too.
If you meet a fairy
Remember what I say,
Talk to her nicely
And don't run away.
Don't run away ;
She won't want to hurt you,
She'll only want to play.
Show her round the garden,
Round the house too,
She'll want to see the kitchen
(I know they always do).
Find a tiny present
To give her when she goes,
They love silver paper
And little ribbon bows.
I knew a little girl once
Who saw twenty-three
Playing in the orchard
As jolly as could be.
They asked her to dance with them
To make a twenty-four ;
She ran to the nursery
And hid behind the door.
Hid behind the nursery door
(What a thing to do !)
She grew up very solemn
And rather ugly too.
If you meet a fairy
Remember what I say,
Talk to her nicely
And don't run away.
Keep in mind while you read our poem this week by John Keats that he only lived to be 25 and probably wrote this with a knowledge of his impending death due to Tuberculosis.
When I Have Fears
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Oooo...love your choices for FHL! We didn't study these, so it's fun to see a few different pieces! :)
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