Sing a Song of Sixpence

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

Authentic Texts For Appreciation Of Literature And Culture

ETAI MiNI CONFERENCE

KFAR SABA 14-1-2009

QUIZ FOR pairs

1. Who fell down?

2. Who frightened Miss Muffet?

3. Where do silver bells grow?

4. Where did Betty Botter put the better butter?

5. What will happen when the wind blows?

6. What are little girls made of?

7. Who had ten thousand men?

8. Who lost her nose?

9. Who lost their tails?

10. Who kissed the girls and made them cry?

SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

PERFORMANCE TASK FOR HIGH-LEVEL STUDENTS

PARODY COMPETITION

Guidelines:

REMINDER: a parody is a new version of a literary piece (usually a poem or song) with changes that are meant to make the audience laugh

1. Take a well-known rhyme (if the audience can't recognize the original, it won't be funny)

2. Keep enough of the structure and content of the rhyme so that it will be easily recognized, but change some of the content to make it amusing. For example, change the characters, setting or plot to others known to the audience.

3. Write the title and authors, and decorate if you wish.

4. You can get more guidelines from this site: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/mary.html

5. Grade each other's parodies, according to the Parody Rubric

Peer Assessment Rubric for Nursery Rhyme Parody

J / K / L
Your parody is recognizable
Your parody is brilliant and made me/us laugh.
It very cleverly uses a traditional rhyme to make fun of the original and/or make a point about an aspect of modern life. 10 / 9 / Your parody was a little hard to recognize.
Your parody was rather good. It made me smile and uses a traditional rhyme to make fun of the original and/or make a point about an aspect of modern life.
7-8 / 6 / What is this a parody of?
You tried, but it didn't make me smile or was not similar enough to the original.
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RESOURCES

Graham, C. Mother Goose Jazz Chants OUP

Iles, N. 1986 Who Really Killed Cock Robin? Hale

Opie & Opie 1997 Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes OUP

Rollin, L. 1992 Cradle and All Jackson UP of Mississippi

Sackville-West, V. 1947 Nursery Rhymes Dropmore Press

Internet

Nursery Rhyme Texts (some with audio)

http://www.gardenofsong.com/

Kidzsing Garden of Songs: the best site for becoming familiar with nursery rhymes-choose a rhyme and hear the tune!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nursery_rhymes

119 pages of text and commentary

http://www.landofnurseryrhymes.co.uk/

Lyrics and tunes

http://www.mamalisa.com/house/index.html

Lyrics with funny recordings

Teaching Applications

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html

Enchanted Learning - Lovely site for teachers. Contains about 100 rebus (illustrated) texts, options to print out a colouring book or calendar, delightful graphics; also arranged according to themes. Includes an article on teaching applications at this link:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Teachers.shtml

which in turn includes a quiz:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/classroom/hunt.shtml

Video

www.youtube.com

Choose between animations and children performing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJBxHXcyvQ

Try the Mother Goose jamboree