Robert Burns a.k.a. Robbie or Rabbie

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Robert Burnsa.k.a. Robbie or Rabbie

• National Poet of Scotland

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Facts of Life

• Born 1759 to poor farmers who valued education
• Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published
  in 1786 at 27 more followed
• Edinburgh years fame recognition
• Died poor at 37 of rheumatic fever
• wife gave birth to 3rd son on day of funeral

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Ancient Scottish poems

• http//www.electricscotland.com/burns/langsyne.htm
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• http//www.recmusic.org/midi/

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• O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly
  sprung in June O my Luve's like the melodie,
  That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art
  thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I And
  I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the
  seas gang dry.

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Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the
rocks melt wi' the sun And I will luve thee
still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall
run. And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve! And
fare-thee-weel, a while! And I will come again,
my Luve, Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
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Still loved today!

• The Burns Supper
• Haggis, neeps and tatties
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/events/burns/supper/
  

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To a Mouse

• Turn to page 642 in your lit book
• What is DIALECT?
• A speech native to a particular geographical
  area or to a social or political group
• Nah, said Amelia I aint gonna go to no place
  I gotta thro on no dress.
• Now YOU try writing a sentence in dialect.