Monday, February 10, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  Schedule and Due Date for Children's Books: February 4 --  Lab 223 -- Work on your Children's Books February 6: Lab 223 February 12: Lab 223 Febuary 19: Lab 223 February 21: Books Due -- Completed!

Today’s Agenda: Getting into Poetry  1. Write a silly rhyme "inspired by" a real nursery rhyme. Here is an example: (You DO NOT have to try to copy meaning as I did in the example.) The Original The "Inspired By" Nursery Rhyme Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And doesn't know where to find them. Leave the alone, And they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them. [The main character has lost something.] [The main character has a problem and is given advice about what to do.] [I tried to copy the pattern of  the rhymes and repetition.] My best friend Jack has lost his backpack, And doesn't know where to find it. Just ask Jim Blair, It's under his chair. He's busted for trying to hide it. [The main character has lost something.] [The main character has a problem and is given advice about what to do.] [I tried to copy the pattern of  the rhymes and repetition.] Here are some examples from poet Bruce Lansky's books Mary Had a Little Jam and Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater: Peter, Peter, pizza-eater, How I wish that you were neater. Half the pizza’s on your shirt. Clean the mess, or no dessert. Mary had a little jam; she spread it on a waffle. And if she hadn’t eaten ten, she wouldn’t feel so awful. 2. What do you notice about the nursery rhymes? What makes them poetry? What POETIC DEVICES do they use?  3. Poems in Love That Dog  and writing Inspired By poems The Disruptive Students    by Ms. Dorsey  (Inspired by William Blake) Students, students talking on Even though the bell has rung Who can hear you? Everyone!  So teacher will cut short your fun.

If you were absent: See above.

http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Nursery/rhymes.htm
or
http://www.powerfulwords.info/nursery_rhymes/nursery_rhymes_index.htm