Summer
By Dallas Lore Sharp (1914)
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp (1914). Unabridged Charlotte Mason living book edition for Form II Natural History & Science.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 1
In this fourth and last volume of these outdoor books I have taken you into the summer fields and, shall I hope? left you there. After all, what better thing could I do? And as I leave you there, let me say one last serious word concerning the purpose of such books as these and the large subject of nature-study in general.
I believe that a child’s interest in outdoor life is a kind of hunger, as natural as his interest in bread and butter. He cannot live on bread and butter alone, but he ought not to try to live without them. He cannot be educated on nature-study alone, but he ought not to be educated without it. To learn to obey and reason and feel—these are the triple ends of education, and the greatest of these is to learn to feel. The teacher’s word for obedience; the arithmetic for reasoning; and for feeling, for the cultivation of the imagination, for the power to respond quickly and deeply, give the child the out-of-doors.
“If I could teach my Rugby boys but one thing,” said Dr. Arnold, “that one thing should be poetry.” Why? Because poetry draws out the imagination, quickens and refines and deepens the emotions. The first great source of poetry is Nature. Give the child poetry; and give him the inspiration of the poem, the teacher of the poet—give him Nature. Make a poet of the child, who is already a poet born.
How can so essential, so fundamental a need become a mere fad of education? A child wants first to eat, then to play, then he wants to know—particularly he wants to know the animals. And he does know an elephant from a kangaroo long before he knows a Lincoln from a Napoleon; just so he wants to go to the woods long before he asks to visit a library.
The study of the ant in the school-yard walk, the leaves on the school-yard trees, the clouds over the school-house roof, the sights, sounds, odors coming in at the school-room windows, these are essential studies for art and letters, to say nothing of life.
And this is the way serious men and women think about it. Captain Scott, dying in the Antarctic snows, wrote in his last letter to his wife: “Make our boy interested in natural history if you can. It is better than games. Keep him in the open air.”
I hope that these four volumes may help to interest you in natural history, that they may be the means of taking you into the open air of the fields many times the seasons through.
Dallas Lore Sharp.
Mullein Hill, February, 1914.
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Table of Contents
53 ChaptersEvery chapter below is pre-indexed for oral narration and easy 1-click scheduling into your weekly Charlotte Mason lesson plan.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 1
Chapter I The Summer Afield
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 2
Chapter Ii The Wild Animals At Play
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 14
Chapter Iv The Coyote Of Pelican Point
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 15
Chapter V From T Wharf To Franklin Field
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 28
Chapter Vii The Sea-Birds’ Home
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 29
Chapter Viii The Mother Murre
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 30
Chapter Ix Mother Carey's Chickens
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 31
Chapter X Riding The Rim Rock
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 42
Chapter Xii The “Cony”
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 43
Chapter I
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 44
Chapter Ii
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 45
Chapter Iii
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 46
Chapter Iv
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 47
Chapter V
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 48
Chapter Vii
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 49
Chapter Viii
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 50
Chapter X
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 51
Chapter Xi
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 52
Chapter Xii
Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 53
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