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Bezig met laden... Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"door Barbara Younger
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a story about Katharine Lee Bates, a brilliant writer from childhood, who wrote America the Beautiful. She traveled cross- country on a train and we read about the "alabaster cities" she saw gleam at the World's Colombian Exposition in New York and the amber waves she saw as she crossed the Great Plains. She spent time in the Rocky Mountains, glowing purple, and her poem came together quite on accident after that. A contest was held to discover Samuel Ward was the best man with the music. I am highly patriotic because my husband is in the Army. The Star-Spangled Banner makes me cry. America the Beautiful makes me cry. The flag can make me cry on the right day. All that to say, I love the patriotic tone in this book. The mood is adoration for our country. And that is a spirit that we could always use a little more of. In a class, there are a number of activities to do. The most obvious would of course be to learn the song America the Beautiful. Then, the next step would be to record that and send a recording to the soldiers stationed overseas. I also think an important part of this lesson could be "What does America mean to you?" Write it, sing it paint it. Do something for America and videotape it. However the kids choose to express themselves. Again, I would send a copy of those (with the students'/parents' permission) to Iraq. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A brief biography of the author and college professor whose travels across the United States inspired her to write the poem which became the song "America the Beautiful." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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O beautiful for halcyon skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Two years later she submitted the poem to a magazine for its Fourth of July issue. It became wildly popular. And soon many composers used its lyrics to create a patriotic song. Bates revised her lyrics twice to make them, “a bit more musical,” with “more simple and direct” language. It became her most famous poem. ( )