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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 >Reply-To: Walker3715@AOL.COM >Sender: School Library Media & Network Communications > <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> >From: Kathy Walker <Walker3715@AOL.COM> >Subject: HIT:ELEM: Similes, metaphors and good wolf >To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU > >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 > >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. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to > listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER > 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST > For more help see LM_NET On The Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Kathleen H. Fencil Washington Elementary School 1220 Poly Drive 1044 Cook Ave. Billings, MT 59102-1715 Billings, MT 59102 tkfencil@mcn.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST For more help see LM_NET On The Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:26:47 -0200 >From: Livia De Almeida <livia@MONTREAL.COM.BR> >Subject: Re: Christmas around the world >Sender: Discussions of storytelling <STORYTELL@VENUS.TWU.EDU> >X-Sender: livia@mail.montreal.com.br >To: Multiple recipients of list STORYTELL <STORYTELL@VENUS.TWU.EDU> >Reply-to: Livia De Almeida <livia@MONTREAL.COM.BR> >MIME-version: 1.0 > >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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST For more help see LM_NET On The Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=