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HMy daughter will be coaching 7-8th grade Forensics next year and is looking
for sources of pieces to use. The categories are: poetry, prose, dramatic
interp, duo, multiple performance. The pieces need to be about 5-8 minutes
long. Any sources or ideas of pieces that would work?
Lois
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Lois E. Smits; Library Media Specialist
Holland Christian Schools
Holland, MI
loismits@macatawa.org
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ct for many of these very young people to identify with.
On the other hand, the students loved the language and the richness of
the language. We did a great deal of close reading with passages. The
students immediately got the idea of the salmon (the swimmer) being MarK
as well as humankind. The two passages they especially liked were where
Mark, Jim, and Marta talk about the purpose of the swimmer and the last
passage where the river runs through time.
2. We are very pleased with A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS, by M.H. Abrams,
published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Our Creative Writing teacher as
well as other
English teachers have used it for over 20 years; new editions have been
published but all of them are still in use, on reserve in the Library.
3. Maybe this will help. I haven't seen the book, but Booklist (Sept 1,
1998 v95
n1 p141(1)) gave it a good review. *A to Zoo: Subject Acess to Children's
Picture Books*, 5th ed.
It lists over 18,000 titles under over 1,000 subjects, and includes a history of
the picture book with suggestions for further reading.
The review also lists other comparable books: *Picture Books to Enhance the
Curriculum*, and *Adventuring with Books* , but the first title is by far the
most comprehensive. In fact, I might want to get it for my own library.
As for individual titles,
Harlem, by Walter Dean Meyers - imagery, metaphor, simile, personification,
alliteration
Psalm Twenty-Three by Tim Ladwig - imagery, metaphor, foreshadowing, allusion
The Unbeatable Bread by Lyn Littlefield Hoopes - alliteration
Toll Bridge Troll by Patricia Wolff - parody
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivisas - parody
Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson - parody
Three Cool Kids by Rebecca Emberly - parody
Anansi Finds a Fool by Verna Aardema - poetic justice
The Oxcart Man by Donald Hall, or almost anything by Barbara Cooney or Patricia
Polacco - atmosphere
Song of the Camels by Elizabeth Coatsworth - foreshadowing
Birthday of Madeline Blore in Birthday Surprises, edited by Hurwitz (not a
picture book, but a great children's book)
4. You might like to take a look at two books Oryx publishes, Using Picture
Story Books to Teach Literary Devices. Vol 1 and 2 by Susan Hall. You can
read more about them on the Oryx web site. If you don't have a copy in your
library, check with elementary and middle schools in your district. These
titles have been out for a while and are very popular. Hope this helps.
5. Take a look at Valerie & Walter's Best Books For Children. AVON. ISBN
0-380-
79438-1. The index lists a number of books that would fit your needs.
6. "Worth a Thousand Words: An Annotated Guide to Picture Books for Older
Readers."
It's an excellent place to find provacative picture books that might find
your needs.
7. Here are two titles that might be useful to your teacher and yourself
as you try to use picture books with high school age students.
Picture Books for Looking and Learning: Awakening Visual Perceptions
through the Art of Children's Books by Syliva S. Marantz. Oryx Press,
1992. (there may be a new edition out now). Teaching with Caldecott
Books: Activities
across the Curriculum by Christine Boardman Moen. Scholastic, 1991.
Hope these are useful.
8. Right now I know of three books that might be of help: Beyond Words:
Picture Books
for Older Readers and Writers, edited by Susan Benedict & Lenore Carlisle
(Heinemann
Publishers, Worth a Thousand Words: An Annotated Guide to Picture books for
Older
Readers by Bette D.
Ammon and Gale W. Sherman (the best one), and Picture Books: And Annotated
Bibiliography with Activities for Teaching Writing by Ruth Culham. Bette
and Gale's book is published by Libraries Unlimited (1996) and is very good
for just what you discuss.
9. Below is an article I wrote for the Educational Media Association of New
Jersey BOOKMARK column last year. Hope it gives you some ideas. (Peggy Beck)
BOOKS THAT PLAY WITH LANGUAGE
Teachers often ask for books which can be used to teach literary
devices. I would like to share a few "classics" (which might already be
in your collections) which are always successful and can be used grades
K-12 with different degrees of sophistication and complexity of
modeling. All lend themselves to oral readings and writing assignments.
All are still available from *Amazon.com as of this date.
Dav Pilkey has to be one of my favorite author/illustrators. His
Kat Kong: Starring Flash, Rabies, and Dwayne and Introducing Blueberry
as the Monster (Harcourt Brace, 1993; $10.95; ISBN 0-15-242036-3) and
Dogzilla: Starring Flash, Rabies, Dwayne, and Introducing Leia as the
Monster (Harcourt Brace, 1993; $10.95; ISBN 0-15-223944-8)
are perfect books for teaching parody, puns, alliteration, assonance,
and consonance. They are also wonderful for dramatics and speech
practice. Dog Breath: The Horrible Terrible Trouble with Hally Tosis
(Blue Sky Press, 1994; $14.95; ISBN 0-590-47466-9) and The
Hallo-wiener (Blue Sky Press, 1995; $14.95; ISBN 0-590-041703-7) are
equally as popular on all grade levels. They are fast-paced, humorous,
and full of puns which even the young children "get." Sometimes I think
that the adult volunteers laugh even harder than the kids with the
Pilkey books.
Want to examine the differences between figurative and literal?
Thanks to Peggy Parish's nephew Herman, Amelia Bedelia continues to
assault our senses with taking things "literally." In Bravo, Amelia
Bedelia (William Morrow, 1997; $11.95; ISBN 0-688-15154-X), Amelia
Bedelia ventures into the world of music and shakes up the
conductor at the school concert with her misunderstandings (a flat bee
with a B flat)! Kids of all ages enjoy making up Amelia Bedelia-isms.
Try them. We had an Amelia Bedelia Day during School Library Week. The
best entries won prizes for each grade level. Teachers assisted the
younger children.
With all of the emphasis on vocabulary, it is a joy to find a book
which both teaches and entertains. Paul Levitt, Douglas Burger, and
Elissa Guralnick's The Weighty Word Book (Bookmakers Guild, 1985; LC
85-62731) creates clever and humorous stories full of puns for 26
vocabulary words which encourage learning through mnemonic devices. The
selected words are definitely high school level vocabulary (from
abasement to zealot), but the stories and illustrations by Janet Stevens
make it a book for all ages. Years ago I had my AP juniors create their
own stories to "define" SAT vocabulary list words. They enjoyed them and
learned more about word study and imagination in the process.
I hope you enjoy discovering or re-discovering these resources for
langauge study.
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Lois E. Smits; Library Media Specialist
Holland Christian Schools
Holland, MI
loismits@macatawa.org
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