My Reading for the Year

I've posted the boys' school schedules. So, what am I planning to read? I always wanted to read some of AO's Year 7 books, but when Tim did Year 7, I didn't have time - I don't remember if I was pregnant then or what, but it was undoable at the time. So now Keola is in Year 7 and I have a second opportunity. I'm going to read The History of English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall, The Life of the Spider by Henri Fabre, and possibly Churchill's Birth of Britain and Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleisher. I'll also be reading Medieval poems from the Oxford Book of English Verse, and I'll be paraphrasing them so I can understand them, with Tim's help. Here's the first poem, and I think I can write it in my own words now.

1. Cuckoo Song (Anonymous. c. 1250)

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu--
Sing cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu;
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Murie sing cuccu!

Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu:
Ne swike thu naver nu;
Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu,
Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu!

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Summer is coming in,
Sing loudly, cuckoo!
The seed grows, the meadow blows,
And the wood springs new--
Sing cuckoo!

The ewe bleats after her lamb,
The cow lows after her calf;
The bull leaps, the deer springs,
Sing merrily cuckoo!

Cuckoo, Cuckoo, sing well, cuckoo:
Don't stop singing;
Sing cuckoo, now, sing cuckoo,
Sing cuckoo, sing now cuckoo!