Monday, September 30, 2013

1. Picture Prompt:    Respond to this picture prompt with a poem, story, description, explanation, commentary, or whatever you wish.  Label it, and add today's date.  Write at least a half page. 

Picture Prompts -- Children's Books?

2. What makes for the best books for children? 
perspective 
how they think
pictures
title
seems less scary (helps them deal with fears)
strange format (humorous) jokes          twisted familiar stories
all pictures -- entertaining, fun 
inanimate objects turned into "people" = "personification"
hyperbole = exaggeration 
imagination. hyperbole  (not as it really is, but as how a child might imagine it)
becomes a game -- such as guessing
learning
alphabet
lyrical-- Ray Bradbury
rhyming, easy, short  
just right words!
design 
colorful
unique to the child 
points out the uniqueness of the child
easy words -- but hard ones to learn, too
suspense 
dealing with  bad things happening
far out -- weird
bears repeating  
wants to see what's coming next 
the familiar 
repeating  refrain  
teaches a lesson -- a moral
humor -- puns 
rhyming
familiar situations -- changed 
unexpected 
temporarily misleading  -- plot twists?
part of a series (This can help.)


3. Interviewing

4.  Fieldtrip next time -- Let your 2nd period teacher know you may be about 15 minutes late to class. 

5.   Love That Dog.