This week at Pine Tree School is dedicated to reading, either it is in our mother tongue or in foreign languages. It is an incredible opportunity to get in touch with different authors, literature and creative approaches to the chosen topic - Sailing the Sea! One of the activities (you can check the whole programme in the previous link) students are enjoying most is poem-reading in the beginning of each language class - high time to train accent, pauses and attitude in front of the whole class. Here are two poems read by the 9th forms (Beyond the Sea) on Wednesday and by the 7th forms (The Little Island) on Tuesday... Why don't you exercise your reading skills, too?
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BEYOND THE SEA
Beyond the
sea, beyond the sea,
My heart is
gone, far, far from me;
And ever on
its track will flee
My
thoughts, my dreams, beyond the sea.
Beyond the
sea, beyond the sea,
The swallow
wanders fast and free:
Oh, happy
bird! were I like thee,
I, too,
would fly beyond the sea.
Beyond the
sea, beyond the sea,
Are kindly
hearts and social glee:
But here
for me they may not be;
My heart is
gone beyond the sea.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
THE LITTLE ISLAND
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hovered
above
the island,
small and
tiny.
Stars
twinkled
and the
moon smiled,
The water
swayed
back and
forth,
sending
treasures
onto its
shore,
shells,
bottles, and little
things.
A wave
crashed,
taking it
all back.
Gretchen, 8th grade
I like both the poems and pictures you've selected for this post!
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