Week 3:
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Read aloud the Poem, Daffodils written by William Wadsworth. Use it for copywork during this study.
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Create a four-line poem about flowers.
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Read aloud The Flower Hunter. Discuss the plot. What contribution did William Bartram make to the world?
- Continue to work on your wildflower plants.
Daffodils
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crown,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering, dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in Never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company,
I gazed and gazed, but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
and dances with the daffodils.
