Devin O'Donnell- Devin O'Donnell
Winter Cometh
Updated: Nov 11, 2021
The yellow fire that falls from limb and tree,
Returns its shelléd body to be free,
Treasure in leaves and gilded bones,
Illumines the ground with golden stones,
A boon of sorrow leads us grieving,
Tears for goldengroves unleaving,
But ancients, having season’s cycle seen,
Knew earth’s brown shines out dappled green,
When the warlike month is most at peace,
At the end of winter’s long-held lease.
Verses upon the passing of fall. So the long dark of winter begins, ladies and gentlemen. Good thing hope is a sturdy thing. Good thing we have Advent and Christmas to look forward to. Good thing we believe in the resurrection.
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Agenda for Monday:
Prayer & Catechism
Review Bible questions from last week's Reading Journal
Read Till We Have Faces
Agenda for Tuesday:
Prayer & Poems
Check Poetry Out Loud Selections
Read and record, study & recite
NOTE HW:
First recitation due next week (11/15)
12 line Imitation due Tuesday (11/30)
Read Till We Have Faces
Create "5 Questions" with answers that you can support from the text
Agenda for Wednesday:
Prayer & Poems
Study your poem
Review Reading Journal questions on Genesis
Read Till We Have Faces
Create "5 Questions" with answers that you can support from the text
REVIEW HW:
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Pray, that you may not stumble.
Questions & Answers for Till We Have Faces
Harkness Monster Truck Rally and Literary Explosion Conference – due 11/16
Dig Deep 2 – read chapter 6 by end of this week (11/18)
Memorize Poetry Out Loud (POL) selections
POL Recitation 1 – due next week (11/12)
POL Recitation 1 – due next week (11/17)
12 line Imitation due Wednesday (12/1)
Bring Mr. O'Donnell a birthday present tomorrow!!!
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Contemplate Peter the Elder's depiction of hunters in winter. Contemplate the necessity of hope in winter:
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm
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