Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 28	Happy Camp of the Freebooters from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	The Commonwealth—The Lord Protector from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	The Chase from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	The Tailltenn Fair from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	The Fall of the Bastile from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	The Little Humpbacked Horse from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	At the Feast of Tabernacles from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Children's Crusade from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The Wild Animals at Play from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The King and His Province from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Frog, the Crab, and the Serpent from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Story of Sigmund and Signy from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Pelopaeus Provisions Her Nest from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	The Escape from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	Song of the River by Charles Kingsley	Birds in Summer by Mary Howitt	Little Birdie by Alfred Lord Tennyson	A Song of Sherwood by Alfred Noyes	What the Burdock Was Good For from Poems, Anonymous	The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll	Nurse's Song by William Blake

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The North Wind and the Sun

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.

Then the Sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.