Copywork selections 2016-2017

These are selections for Hero to use in copywork and studied dictation this year. This won't get us through the whole year, but it will get us started. The plan goes like this:

Day 1: copy the passage
Day 2: corrections and spelling
Day 3: grammar check; dictate to Mom - and correct it
Day 4: dictate to Hero




"God has given you eyes; it is your duty to God to use them."
-Madam How and Lady Why

Four ducks on a pond,
A grass bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
-Mother Goose

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
-Miguel de Cervantes

"Adam stood there between the wood and the river, shivering in his wet clothes. He could go no farther."
-Adam of the Road


 "We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost."
-First Article of Faith

"I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be."
-Emily Dickinson

"God's Book, which is the Universe, and the reading of God's Book, which is Science, can do you nothing but good, and teach you nothing but truth and wisdom."
-Madam How and Lady Why

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."
-Matthew 7:7

"The houses and cottages, each in its garden, clustered together along both sides of the road, while the fields and the meadows and the pasture land and woodland spread out all around them as far as the eye could see."
-Adam of the Road

"There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry."
-Emily Dickinson

"Children of our Heavenly Father
Safely in His bosom gather;
Nestling bird nor star in heaven
Such a refuge e'er was given."
-Hymns  p299

"He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought."
-Storybook of Science

"Come all ye young fellows that follow the sea,
To my way haye, blow the man down,
And pray pay attention and listen to me,
Give me some time to blow the man down."
-Blow the Man Down

"And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
-Doctrine and Covenants 88:118