Record only one of the following texts:

1. Excerpt from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made,
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem) (Accessed 24 July 14)

Horse sounds:
http://www.freesound.org/people/XtreamGF/sounds/165243/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Max_Headroom/sounds/175356/
http://www.freesound.org/people/soundmary/sounds/194982/

Cannon sounds:
http://www.freesound.org/people/baefild/sounds/91293/
http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/187767/
http://www.freesound.org/people/originalmaja/sounds/210901/

2. Excerpt from "If" by Kipling

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;       
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     
And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken     
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,       
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, 
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,     
If all men count with you, but none too much; 
If you can fill the unforgiving minute     
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,       
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46473

(Accessed 28 August 2016)

Tools, Traps, other sounds:
http://www.freesound.org/people/hareonfire/sounds/90449/
http://www.freesound.org/people/bsmacbride/sounds/108524/
http://www.freesound.org/people/blue2107/sounds/172086/
 http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160548/

Crowds, Cheering:
http://www.freesound.org/people/edhutschek/sounds/242604/
http://www.freesound.org/people/xtrsounder/sounds/202498/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Gauraa/sounds/184833/

3. Excerpt from “The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus" by Ogden Nash

In Baltimore there lived a boy,
He wasn't anybody's joy.
Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
His character was full of flaws.
In school he never led his classes,
He hid old ladies' reading glasses,
His mouth was open when he chewed,
And elbows to the table glued.
He stole the milk of hungry kittens,
And walked through doors marked No Admittance.
He said he acted thus because
There wasn't any Santa Claus.

"Jabez," replied the angry saint,
"It isn't I, it's you that ain't.
Although there is a Santa Claus,
There isn't any Jabez Dawes!"
Said Jabez with impudent vim,
"Oh, yes there is; and I am him!
Your magic don't scare me, it doesn't"---
And suddenly he found he wasn't!
From grimy feet to grimy locks,
Jabez became a Jack-in-the-box,
An ugly toy with springs unsprung,
Forever sticking out his tongue.

http://www.westegg.com/nash/santa.html (Accessed 10 Nov. 2016

Jingle bells:
http://www.freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/110158/
http://www.freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/89602/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/63270/

Laughing:
http://www.freesound.org/people/ecfike/sounds/137204/
http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/15660/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Shades/sounds/37239/
http://www.freesound.org/people/caculo/sounds/164243/

4. Excerpt from "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say, It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/108/phenomenal_woman (Accessed 24 July 14)

Clicking heels:
http://www.freesound.org/people/avakas/sounds/172358/
http://www.freesound.org/people/avakas/sounds/172362/
http://www.freesound.org/people/tigersound/sounds/15563/

Humming:
http://www.freesound.org/people/AlucardsBride/sounds/193938/
http://www.freesound.org/people/PSsoundproject/sounds/183565/
http://www.freesound.org/people/nayruslove/sounds/69979/