- No banned words
- Each paragraph should be at least 10 sentences.
- Be sure to indicate your required dress ups and your ALLIT properly.
Although we have not covered all of these dress-ups, openers, DECs, M3s, and ARDs in the following example, it is an example of correct indications:
(2)In the bright blue of the ocean, there lies a secret that all
mer-people hide. This ancient secret is like a hidden treasure for the Merfolk. It is an island that they call, Cat Grove. Many centuries ago the island was discovered by the Mermaid Queen on one of her moonlight walk-abouts. Every full moon, mermaids and mermen are able to traverse on land, just as humans do. They prefer to explore unknown shores because the prospect of meeting humans quite frightens them. On the Mermaid Queen's walk-about many years ago, she happened upon an island that glistened in the light of the stars and moon. (5)As the beautiful queen stepped onto the shore, she heard the most peculiar sound. (M3-adj)It was a contented, hypnotic, purring, kind of a hum. (vss) How beautiful it was! The Mermaid Queen who was completely enchanted, soon discovered that the hypnotic hum would compel her to return to the secret island every month. Each time she returned, she would search for the source of the magical purring sounds.
One especially bright moonlit night, the Mermaid Queen finally found the source of the purring. As she gingerly stepped into a grove of trees that formed a canopy over a small gully, she could not believe her eyes. At least a hundred kittens were fast asleep in the soft leaves. Their sweet little bodies rose and fell with each breath and their purrs resonated in harmony with each other. (DEC1)Where were the adult cats? How did these sweet felines survive? What, the Queen asked herself, could she do to ensure their survival? In a trice, the answer was clear. She would enlist the help of her fellow mer-people. (ALLIT)No greater calling is there than that of caring for God's helpless creatures. They would become the guardians of this amazing island and care for the fluffy, innocent, purring felines.
That is exactly what happened. (M3-v)The mermaids and mermen in the Queen's watery kingdom have fed, protected, and loved their cat children through countless ages. The island is well hidden and no human has happened upon it. Indeed, the Merfolk ensure this by distracting any sort of sea vessel in order to steer them away from Cat Grove. To this day, in the bright blue of the ocean, there lies a secret that all Merfolk hide.
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RECITATION:memorize the part in red
The Gettysburg Address (divided for memorization purposes)
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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