Activity 1: Recite the Book Information
- Recite the name of the author, the title of the book, and the title of the chapter.
Activity 2: Narrate the Story
- Narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 3: Study the Story Picture(s)
- Study the story picture(s) and verbally describe the relation to the story.
Activity 4: Read a Poem Based on Elaine
Read aloud Part IV of the lyrical ballad, 'The Lady of Shalott,' by the poet Alfred Tennyson.
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- In the stormy east-wind straining,
- The pale yellow woods were waning,
- The broad stream in his banks complaining,
- Heavily the low sky raining
- Over tower'd Camelot;
- Down she came and found a boat
- Beneath a willow left afloat,
- And round about the prow she wrote
- The Lady of Shalott.
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- And down the river's dim expanse
- Like some bold seër in a trance,
- Seeing all his own mischance—
- With a glassy countenance
- Did she look to Camelot.
- And at the closing of the day
- She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
- The broad stream bore her far away,
- The Lady of Shalott.
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- Lying, robed in snowy white
- That loosely flew to left and right—
- The leaves upon her falling light—
- Thro' the noises of the night
- She floated down to Camelot:
- And as the boat-head wound along
- The willowy hills and fields among,
- They heard her singing her last song,
- The Lady of Shalott.
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- Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
- Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
- Till her blood was frozen slowly,
- And her eyes were darken'd wholly,
- Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.
- For ere she reach'd upon the tide
- The first house by the water-side,
- Singing in her song she died,
- The Lady of Shalott.
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- Under tower and balcony,
- By garden-wall and gallery,
- A gleaming shape she floated by,
- Dead-pale between the houses high,
- Silent into Camelot.
- Out upon the wharfs they came,
- Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
- And round the prow they read her name,
- The Lady of Shalott.
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- Who is this? and what is here?
- And in the lighted palace near
- Died the sound of royal cheer;
- And they cross'd themselves for fear,
- All the knights at Camelot:
- But Lancelot mused a little space;
- He said, 'She has a lovely face;'
- God in his mercy lend her grace,
- The Lady of Shalott.
See below a painting of 'The Lady of Shalott' by John William Waterhouse.
Activity 5: Act Out a Passage
Practice acting out the following passage, with drama and feeling.
- I am going to say something which I should not. I love you. Take me with you to Camelot. (Elaine)
- My poor little maiden, you do not really love me. Some day you will marry a young knight, and then I shall give castles and land as a dowry. (Sir Lancelot)
- I will have nothing of all that. (Elaine)
Activity 6: Complete Written Narration
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 174 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 7: Complete Copywork and Dictation
- Click the crayon above, and complete pages 174-175 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 8: Color the Image
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 175 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 9: Answer Written Review Questions
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 176 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'