Spring Stories for your Typing.com Custom Lessons
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Traditional St. Patricks Day Songs
Here are some traditional songs and stories for March that are pre-formatted for your Typing.com custom lessons. They are separated into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced content. Please note, if the story is too long, or if your students don’t have enough time to finish it, you’ll want to break them down into multiple lessons as partially completed content is not saved.
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Beginner: I’m looking over a four-leaf clover
I’m looking over a four-leaf clover⏎That I overlooked before.⏎One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain,⏎Third is the roses that grow in the lane.⏎No need explaining the one remaining⏎Is somebody I adore.⏎I’m looking over a four-leaf clover⏎That I overlooked before!
Intermediate: When Irish Eyes are Smiling
There’s a tear in your eye,⏎And I’m wondering why,⏎For it never should be there at all.⏎With such power in your smile,⏎Sure a stone you’d beguile,⏎So there’s never a teardrop should fall.⏎When your sweet lilting laughter’s⏎Like some fairy song,⏎And your eyes twinkle bright as can be,⏎You should laugh all the while⏎And all other times smile,⏎And now, smile a smile for me.⏎When Irish eyes are smiling⏎Sure it’s like a morn in spring.⏎In the lilt of Irish laughter,⏎You can hear the angels sing.⏎When Irish hearts are happy,⏎All the world seems bright and gay. ⏎And when Irish eyes are smiling,⏎Sure, they steal your heart away.
Advanced: The Story of St. Patrick
Patrick was born in AD 387 just south of Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, which was part of the Roman Empire (that’s right, he wasn’t Irish!). He was captured by Irish pagans in his early teens and taken to Ireland, where he was enslaved for six years. During that time, he grew to like the spirit of the Irish. When he escaped and returned to his family, he vowed to one day return to Ireland.⏎He studied at monasteries on the continent and was eventually ordained a priest and then a bishop. Pope Celestine I commissioned Patrick to be an apostle to Ireland.⏎Patrick initially encountered many hardships among the pagans, particularly the druids. They weren’t willing to give up their power over the old religion and feared Patrick and Christianity. Although the ruling monarch, King Laoghaire, didn’t convert to Christianity, many of his family members did, and little by little, the old religion began to fade. Patrick traveled from town to town, tearing down idols and temples and establishing the Catholic Church. By AD 444, the primatial see and first cathedral of Ireland were built in Armagh.⏎He baptized, confirmed, and ordained priests, and he erected schools and monasteries. Thousands came into the Church under his direction. He accomplished all these activities in less than 30 years, during which time the whole island nation of Ireland was converted. Toward the end of his life, he wrote Confessions, in which he gives a record of his life and mission. He died on March 17, 461, of natural causes. He is buried in Downpatrick in present-day Northern Ireland.
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