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ate: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 05:28:37 -0700
From: Kathleen Fencil <tkfencil@MCN.NET>
v 17 07:29:23 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 05:28:37 -0700
From: Kathleen Fencil <tkfencil@MCN.NET>
Subject: Re: Christmas around the world
Subject: HIT:ELEM: Similes, metaphors and good wolf
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:57:36 -0500
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>From: Kathy Walker <Walker3715@AOL.COM>
>Subject: HIT:ELEM: Similes, metaphors and good wolf
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>A few people asked me to post a hit on my question about books with metaphors
>and similes and also books where the wolf is the good character. Several
>replies mentioned the same books, so I tried not to duplicate these. I tried
>to thank everyone individually but if I missed anyone, thanks for your help.
> This group is so great!
>
>Kathy Walker
>Library Media Specialist
>McCrorey-Liston Elem. School
>Rt. 1, Box 154
>Blair, SC 29015
>walker3715@aol.com
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>How about The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza. The wolf starts
>out trying to catch the chickens for his dinner but ends up being "Uncle
>Wolf" to a whole brood of chicks.
>****************************************
>Kathy--it's pretty young for fourth grade, but NICE WORK, LITTLE
>WOLF also has the wolf as the hero and the pigs as, well, lazy. For
>similes, I love Roni Schotter's CAPTAIN SNAP AND THE CHILDREN OF
>VINEGAR LANE. Norton Juster also put out a book a few years ago
>(Morrow, 1989) called AS: A SURFEIT OF SIMILES in poetry form, which
>is great and quite suitable for fourth grade.
>I surely hope your weather in SC is better than ours in Wyoming
>today--
>****************************************
>A good picture book for similes is called Quick as a Cricket, by Margaret
>Wise Brow. I used this with my 3/4 class. Even though it is an easy picture
>book, the students still loved it and it was a good lead in for similes.
>****************************************
>Norton Juster has a book called "A Surfeit of Similes."
>****************************************
>Kathy - Books by Eve Bunting, Jane Yolen, Diane Siebert, Ann Turner
>are usually loaded with similes and metaphors. The new book Sam and
>the Tigers by Lester is a good one too. I use Using Picture
>Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices from Oryx Press to locate these
>kinds of books - there are two volumes.
>****************************************
>There is an author, Marvin Terban, that does an entire series of books
>on words and word play. I know he has written ones explicitly on
>similies and metaphors. One of them is "Mad as a Wet Hen". I'm not at
>school or I would give you the names of the other titles. Hope this
>helps.
>****************************************
>Try:
>
>http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/list12.htm#Similes
>****************************************
>I remember reading something by Bunting (I think) and thinking - what a
>beautiful simile - I must remember this. But of course I didn't and when
>I need these things, I can never find them.
>****************************************
>One of my most favorite is Little tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the
>Bear by Ken Kesey, the most fun to read in the whole world.
>****************************************
>I was reading Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston out loud to a
>class this week and was struck by how many similes are used in that
>book.
>****************************************
>Most of Eve Bunting's books (at least the picture books) seem to include
>a few good similes in each.
>****************************************
>Also, you could check the LM_Net archives. I had a similar question
>last spring, and posted an answer.
>****************************************
>How about It's so Nice to Have a Wolf About the House? I think that is the
>title. While the wolf has a wicked past, he redeems himself gloriously.
>****************************************
>One book I tell my teachers about that has some excellent examples of similes
>and metaphors is called Like Butter on Pancakes by Jonathan London. Hope this
>helps.
>
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>Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:26:47 -0200
>From: Livia De Almeida <livia@MONTREAL.COM.BR>
>Subject: Re: Christmas around the world
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>Hello folks!
>
>In Brazil's southwestern big cities, like Rio and S. Paulo, Christmas is
>much like in the US. Well, there is a major difference, though. No snow. In
>fact we have our Christmas dinner (turkey, peaches, lots of walnuts, and
>wine) in steaming hot weather. In smaller villages _ and in inner city
>areas, where there are lots of imigrants from the countryside_, some old
>traditions still remain. There is Folia de Reis, which could be loosely
>translated as The Kings'Parade. A group of musiciens (lots of drums) play
>and sing as they parade in the streets. A group of clowns goes in front.
>They stop each time in a different house. As they sing, they ask to be
>taken as guests. The host is supposed to provide food _and drink_ for all
>the band. It is usually holiday food (chicken, sweets). Then they perform
>for the host songs about the birth of Christ (with lots of drumbeats,
>nothing like carols) and go on to another house. The clowns never go inside
>the house. They stay out. As they go in front they are supposed to be in
>league with the exus (demons of african tradition). These demons are not
>necessarily evil. One of their duties is to watch over crossings.
>The rest of the tradition is quite european (portuguese tradition). It
>reminds the people of the birth of Christ and the visit of the three Magi
>Kings, the wandering kings who visited little boy Jesus. This goes on
>usually one week before Chrismas and ends on the 6th of January, Kings'Day.
>That's when we eat Kings's cake, a cake made of dried fruits, and nuts,
>soaked in wine or any other liquor, any kind of leftover from Christmas/New
>Year's (quite inappropriate for a 100F/40C weather).
>In my city, Rio de Janeiro, the folia lasts longer. They stop the parade by
> the 21st. of January, Saint Sebastian's day. Saint Sebastian is the patron
>saint of Rio. Our city is called, in fact, Saint Sebastian do Rio de
>Janeiro. This day we have a traditional procession. As I told before,
>everything goes on in inner city areas, slums, around here, where I live. I
>was truly surprised to discover that there are more than 200 groups of
>folia just in Rio. It is really something that is never shown through the
>media.
>
>*************************
>* Livia de Almeida *
>* Down in South America *
>*************************
>
Kathleen H. Fencil Washington Elementary School
1220 Poly Drive 1044 Cook Ave.
Billings, MT 59102-1715 Billings, MT 59102
tkfencil@mcn.net
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