Grade 2 • Lesson 6: Memory Lesson
Classical Poetry & Habit
Primary Rule of Action
"Work while you work, play while you play, —
That is the way to be cheerful and gay!
All that you do, do with your might;
Things done by halves are never done right."
Transcribe the first two lines with exact punctuation (capital letters, commas, dash, exclamation point):
1.
Work while you work, play while you play, —
2.
That is the way to be cheerful and gay!
Transcribe the last two lines with exact punctuation (semicolon and terminal period):
3.
All that you do, do with your might;
4.
Things done by halves are never done right.
1.
What word rhymes with play? [
] • What rhymes with might? [
]
2.
What does it mean to do work "with your might"?
3.
What happens to tasks when they are "done by halves"?