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LESSON 3:
WHAT IS VERSES?
6. They serve as
3. They serve as a release from
introduction to better
tension and anxieties.
poetry.
C was a camel
A was an ant
B was a bat
Laura Richards’ parents were famous before she was born. Her
father was Samuel Gridley Howe, who ran the Perkins Institute
for the Blind where Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman were
educated. (In fact, he named his own daughter after Laura
Bridgman.) Her mother, Julia Ward Howe, wrote the words to a
famous song called “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” When
Laura Richards grew up, she and her sister wrote a biography
of their mother that won a Pulitzer Prize.
In addition to writing many poems and works of fiction,
Richards was a philanthropist. She was very concerned
about finding ways to help the people in the town where
she lived with her husband. For example, Richards
helped to change the practice of making children work at
difficult jobs as if they were adults, which was common at
the time.