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2-21 Word Cards Lesson XXI: The Bee. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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LESSON XXI:

crea'tures ... drones ... in'side ... hive
i'dle ...  de fense' ... driv'en ... killed ... cells
size ...  work'ers ... queen ... stings ... shape ... wax

1. Bees live in a house that is called a hive. They are of three kinds,—workers, drones, and queens
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2. Only one queen can live in each hive. If she is lost or dead, the other bees will stop their work.

3. They are very wise and busy little creatures. They all join together to build cells of wax for their honey.

4. Each bee takes its proper place, and does its own work. Some go out and gather honey from the flowers; others stay at home and work inside the hive.

5. The cells which they build, are all of one shape and size, and no room is left between them

6. The cells are not round, but have six sides.

7. Did you ever look into a glass hive to see the bees while at work? It is pleasant to see how busy they always are.

8. But the drones do not work. Before winter comes, all the drones are driven from the hive or killed, that they may not eat the honey which they did not gather.

9. It is not quite safe for children to handle bees. They have sharp stings that they know well how to use in their defense.

2-6 Lesson VI: Scared in the Dark. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Primer (revised edition

Lesson VI.

be tween'... bu'reau (-ro)... stair... nee'dle... afraid'... shad'ow... held... stir...

Afraid in the Dark.

1. "Willie, will you run upstairs, and get my needlebook from the bureau?

2. But Willie did not stir.  "Willie!"said mamma.  She thought he had not heard.

3. "I'm afraid," said Willie.

4. "Afraid of what?"

5. "It's dark up there."

6. "What is the dark?" asked mamma.  "See! It is nothing but a shadow." And she held her hand between the lamp and the workbasket on the table.

7. "Now it is dark in the basket; but as soon as I take my hand away, it is light."

8. "Come and stand between the lamp and the wall, Willie.  See! There is your shadow on the wall.  Can your shadow hurt you?"

9. Oh no, mamma! I am sure it can not hurt me."

10. "Well, the dark is only a big shadow over everything."

11. "What makes the big shadow, mamma?

12. "I will tell you all about that, Willie, when you are a little older.  But now, I wish you would find me a brave boy who is not afraid of shadows, to run upstairs and get my needlebook."

13. "I am brave, mamma.  I will go.  Here it is."

14. "Thank you, my brave little man.  You see the dark didn't hurt you."

2-44 Music Lesson XLIV: O Come O Come Emmanuel. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

Not only is Thanksgiving this week, but this coming Sunday is the beginning of the Advent season (It's already that time of year again!!). Here are a few activities to do for the important days coming up.

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2-71 LESSON LXXI. Sweet and Low. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

west'ern,  breathe,  dy'ing,  moon,  babe,   sails

LULLABY.
1. Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me ;
While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.




2. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west,
Under the silver moon ;
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
Tennyson.

This is a classic!

Click on this link to write your own lullaby: 2-71 Lesson LXXI. - Write a Lullaby

The theory of evolution is so destructive. It has caused so much heart break.

"The poet Tennyson was a man who was deeply concerned about the intellectual currents of his day, and he was deeply infected by the thinking of Charles Darwin. According, although Tennyson tried desperately to cling to some semblance of Christian faith, and in many of his poems, gave expression to a kind of Christian affirmation, basically he felt that however good and beautiful the Christian story was, it was regrettably not altogether true. And he saw instead of a world governed by God, according to one of his poems, he saw this earth “a stage so gloomed with woe you all but sicken at the shifting seams.” He saw no permanency, only change and decay, only perpetual flux, mutability. Wherever one looked, one saw the erosion of everything, and nothing to give permanency, to give meaning, to give character to life. He expressed this conviction in his poem, “In Memoriam,” and he wrote, “The hills are shadows, and they flow from form to form and nothing stands. They melt like mists, the solid lands, like clouds they shape themselves and go, nothing stands. Not even the ground beneath our feet has any permanency.” We live, he felt, in a world of flux, in a world of change and decay, a world without meaning, but man cannot live that way. He must have meaning in his life, and as he faces this world as sees the perpetual flux, the change and the decay, he requires for himself a source of certainty which is also an agency of control.

I recall being told at the University of California, when a student at this indicated a prophetic vision on the part of Tennyson. Of course, they did not believe in any prophetic vision on the part of the prophets, but they were ready to credit it to Tennyson because he spoke of this world state, the parliament of man, the federal of the world, it was no prophetic vision on Tennyson's part, nor was it any act of perversity. It was a logical necessity. Having ruled out God as the effective agency of certainty and world control, he had to have that somewhere on the human level, and the only logical place for it was a world order, a substitute god.

It is the logical necessity to have this, if you doubt God. This world order, like God, will be man's source of salvation. It will be a saving order. Thus it is no surprise to read in the preamble of the U.N. charter that it begins thus: “We the people of the United Nations determine to save, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.” This is a religious resolve. It is a humanistic organization dedicated to the religion of humanity, dedicated by its own statements to humanitarian principles. Thus, the first and foremost way to understand the United Nations is not as a sinister plot. There are conspirators in it, but there are conspirators in the churches as well. It is a product of a religious hunger, of a religious need, and men, having turned away from the God of the Bible, are molding a god on earth.

Because man needs an agency of certainty and control to meet the world of change and decay, that agency is a substitute god, and every time in history, whether in ancient Babylon or Rome, or anywhere else, for a man who has turn from the supernatural source and sought it in this world, he has developed a theology of state. There was a theology of the Caesars. There was a passion liturgy, although we don't hear much about it now a days, for Julius Caesar, and today, we have a developing theology of state.

Let's examine the theology, the doctrine of god of the United Nations. First, the basic principle of any doctrine of God is that you must assert the unity of the godhead, and in the Christian faith, we hold to one God, three persons. The three persons, equal without any subordination, distinct yet equally ultimate.

Now, in the U.N. theology, because man has taken the place of God, there must be similarly a unity of the godhead, which means the unity of man. Man is now the god we worship, and man is expressed in this world government. In terms of the U.N., man truly finds himself. Therefore, since there can be no division in the godhead, no disunity of the godhead, there must be a unity of mankind. Accordingly, you cannot tolerate, in this theology, anything that divides man from man. There must be an equality of all men. There must be a bringing together of all men. There must be total equality, total democracy, and equality means, and there's no staking this in their thinking that there can be no discrimination with regard to anything, good or evil, right or wrong. To insist that there is a moral difference between men in terms of good and evil is to discriminate, and does not the U.N. charter call for a world without discrimination with respect to race, color, or creed? the concept echoed recently in California in the Rumford Act. What does this mean? It means certainly that there can be no distinction between races. They are all made equal. It means also that there can be no distinction between religions. We cannot say that Christianity is true and Mohammedism is false, because this is discrimination and this is illegal, or immoral. The unity of the godhead must be preserved. This is the basic premise of the first concept of a doctrine of god, and we find it in the U.N. thinking." Critiquing Americas Fads - Myths - and Heresies - RR254A1 - pocketcollege.com

I am so grateful for the TIME in which we live where we have a sound theological argument against Darwin's meaninglessness and world in flux. You can study some arguments HERE.

2-0 Punctuation - Mcguffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

Punctuation Marks are used to make the sense more clear.

Period (.) is used at the end of a sentence, and  after an abbreviation; as,
     James was quite sick. Dr. Jones was called to see him.

An Interrogation Mark (?) is used at the end of a question;  as,
     Where is John going?

An Exclamation Mark (!) is used after words or sentences expressing some strong feeling;  as,
     Alas, my noble boy! that thou shouldst die!

The Comma (,), Semicolon (;), and Colon (:) are used to separate the parts of a sentence.

The Hyphen (-) is used to join the parts of a compound word ; as, text-book: it is also used at the end of a line in print or script, when a word is divided; as in the word ''sentence";  as,  

Period (.) is used at the end of a sent-
ence.

   
 

2-3 Supplementary Reading - Lesson III: Willie's Letter. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

Tomorrow is Saint Nicholas Day. Supplementary reading for 2-3 McGuffey's 
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Bishop of Myra
December 6.

The Collect for the Day
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who didst enkindle the flame of thy love in the heart of thy servant Nicholas: Grant to us, thy humble servants, the same faith and power of love; that, as we rejoice in his triumph, we may profit by his example; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle
Philippians 4:4-9.
REJOICE in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice, Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

The Gospel
St. Matthew 25:31-40.
WHEN the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

2-3 Coloring Pages - Lesson III: Willie's Letter. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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2-3 Lesson III. Willie's Letter. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (re)

Friendly letters have five parts: 

1.  The Heading:  The heading can include your address and the date.  In casual, friendly letters your address is not necessary.
2.  The Salutation (greeting):  This usually begins with Dear_________.  The blank is for the name of the person you are writing.  After you write the person's name you put a comma ( , ) .
3.  The Body:  The body of the letter is the information you are writing in your letter.
4.  The Closing:  In the closing the first word is capitalized and you put a comma after the last word. 
   Some examples of closings are:
   

   Sincerely, Your friend, Love, Very truly yours, Your little boy,
   

   5. Your Signature:  This is your name.

 



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2-71 Word Cards Lesson LXXI: Lullaby. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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1. Sweet and low, sweet and low,
     Wind of the western sea,
   Low, low, breathe and blow,
     Wind of the western sea!
   Over the rolling waters go,
   Come from the dying moon, and blow,
     Blow him again to me;
   While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.

2. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
     Father will come to thee soon;
   Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
     Father will come to thee soon;
   Father will come to his babe in the nest,
   Silver sails all out of the west,
     Under the silver moon;
   Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

west'ern ... breathe ... dy'ing ... moon ... babe ... sails

2-1 Word Cards Lesson I: Evening at home. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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LESSON I.

news'paper ... cold ... or'der ... seem ... through

stock'ings ... chat ... sto'ry ... light ... Har'ry

branch'es ... kiss ... burns ... Mrs. ... e vents'

an oth'er ... Mr. ... stool ... lamp ... mends



EVENING AT HOME.

1. It is winter. The cold wind whistles through the branches of the trees.


2. Mr. Brown has done his day's work, and his children, Harry and Kate, have come home from school. They learned their lessons well to-day, and both feel happy.

3. Tea is over. Mrs. Brown has put the little sitting room in order. The fire burns brightly. One lamp gives light enough for all. On the stool is a basket of fine apples. They seem to say, "Won't you have one?"

4. Harry and Kate read a story in a new book. The father reads his newspaper, and the mother mends Harry's stockings.

5. By and by, they will tell one another what they have been reading about, and will have a chat over the events of the day.

6. Harry and Kate's bedtime will come first. I think I see them kiss their dear father and mother a sweet good night.

7. Do you not wish that every boy and girl could have a home like this?

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2-6 Word Cards Lesson V: Afraid in the dark. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

LESSON VI.

AFRAID IN THE DARK.

bet ween' ... bu'reau (-ro) ... stairs ... nee'dle ... a fraid' ... shad'ow ... held ... stir

1. "Willie, will you run upstairs, and get my needle book from the bureau?"

2. But Willie did not stir. "Willie!" said mamma. She thought he had not heard.

3. "I'm afraid," said Willie.

4. "Afraid of what?"

5. "It's dark up there."

6. "What is the dark?" asked mamma. "See! It is nothing but a shadow."

And she held her hand between the lamp and the workbasket on the table.

7. "Now it is dark in the basket; but as soon as I take my hand away, it is light."

8. "Come and stand between the lamp and the wall, Willie. See! There is your shadow on the wall. Can your shadow hurt you?"

9. "Oh no, mamma! I am sure it can not hurt me."

10. "Well, the dark is only a big shadow over everything."

11. "What makes the big shadow, mamma?"

12. "I will tell you all about that, Willie, when you are a little older. But now, I wish you would find me a brave boy who is not afraid of shadows, to run upstairs and get my needlebook."

13. "I am bravo, mamma. I will go. --Here it is."

14. "Thank you, my brave little man. You see the dark didn't hurt you." 

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2-69 Word Cards Lesson LXIX: Bessie (concluded). - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

LESSON LXIX.

vis' it ... soaked ... o be'di ent ... ru'ined

BESSIE. (CONCLUDED.)

1. She was back at the house in a few minutes, calling, "Mother! mother! auntie! Who wants me?"

2. "I, dear," said her mother. "I am going away for a long visit, and if you had not come at once, I could not have said good-by to my little girl."

3. Then Bessie's mother kissed her, and told her to obey her kind aunt while she was gone.

4. The next morning, Bessie waked to find it raining hard. She went into her aunt's room with a very sad face. "O auntie! this old rain!"

5, "This new, fresh, beautiful rain, Bessie! How it will make our flowers grow, and what a good time we can have together in the house!"

6. "I know it, auntie; but you will think me so careless!"

7. "To let it rain?"

8. "No; don't laugh, Aunt Annie; to leave your nice basket out of doors all night; and now it will be soaked and ruined in this—this—beautiful rain." Bessie did not look as if the beautiful rain made her very happy.

9. "You must be more careful, dear, another time," said her aunt, gently. "But come, tell me all about it."

10. So Bessie crept very close to her auntie's side, and told her of her happy time the day before; of the squirrel, and the toad, and how the basket rolled away down the hill; and then how the bell rang, and she could not stop to find the basket.

11. "And you did quite right," said her aunt. "If you had stopped, your mother must have waited a whole day, or else gone without seeing you. When I write, I will tell her how obedient you were, and that will please her more than anything else I can say."


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2-65 Word Cards Lesson LXV: Poor Davy. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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2-3 Lesson III: Willie's Letter. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Primer (revised edition)

Lesson III.


rub'ber ... gun ... par'lor ... street ... num'ber ... ten ... o'clock ... shoot


Willie's Letter.

New York, Dec. 10, 1878.

Dear Santa Claus:

Papa is going to give me

a Christmas tree, and he says that

you will put nice things on it if I ask you.

I would like a gun that will shoot,

and a rubber ball that I can throw hard,

and that will not break Mamma's windows

or the big glass in the parlor.

Now, please don't forget to come.

I live on Fourth St., number ten.

I will go to bed at eight o'clock,

and shut my eyes tight.

I will not look indeed I won't.

Your little boy

Willie.

2-1 Lesson I: Evening at home. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Primer (revised edition)

LESSON I.

news'paper ... cold ... or'der ... seem ... through

stock'ings ... chat ... sto'ry ... light ... Har'ry

branch'es ... kiss ... burns ... Mrs. ... e vents'

an oth'er ... Mr. ... stool ... lamp ... mends

EVENING AT HOME.

1. It is winter.  The cold wind whistles through the branches of the trees.

2. Mr. Brown has done his day's work, and his children, Harry and Kate, have come home from school.  They learned their lessons well to-day, and both feel happy.

3. Tea is over.  Mrs. Brown has put the little sitting room in order.  The fire burns brightly.  One lamp gives light enough for all.  On the stool is a basket of fine apples.  They seem to say, "Won't you have one?"

4. Harry and Kate read a story in a new book.  The father reads his newspaper, and the mother mends Harry's stockings.

5. By and by, they will tell one another what they have been reading about, and will have a chat over the events of the day.

6. Harry and Kate's bedtime will come first.  I think I see them kiss their dear father and mother a sweet good night.

7. Do you not wish that every boy and girl could have a home like this?

2-19 Video Lesson XIX: Evening Hymn. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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2-18 Video Lesson XVIII: The kingbird. (part 1) - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

2-54 Word Cards Lesson LIV: Grandfather's Story. - McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (revised edition)

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