What's Your Story? O Frabjous Day! Neil Gaiman Recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" from Memory. When the young Neil Gaiman was learning Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” by heart, he surely had no inkling that years later he’d be called upon to recite it for legions of adoring fans…particularly on the Internet, a phenomenon the budding author may well have imagined, if not technically implemented.
Worldbuilders, a fundraising portal that rewards donors not with tote bags or umbrellas, but rather with celebrity challenges of a non-ice bucket variety, scored big when Gaiman agreed to participate. Earlier this year, a rumpled looking Gaiman read Dr. Seuss’s “rather wonderful” Green Eggs and Ham into his webcam. This month, with donations to Heifer International exceeding $600,000, he found himself on the hook to read another piece of the donors’ choosing. Carroll’s nonsensical poem won out over Goodnight Moon, Fox in Socks, and Where the Wild Things Are.
Like fellow author, Lynda Barry, Gaiman is not one to underestimate the value of memorization. Callooh! Callay! Related Content: Poetry writing framework. Create a PicLit | Inspired Picture Writing. Poetry Idea Engine | Writing with Writers. Writing with Writers: Poetry Writing.
Poetry with Kids - Ideas and Resources. Poetry with Kids - Ideas and Resources by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com My feelings about poetry are actually quite difficult to express. Poetry is many different things to me: perhaps it’s a succinct way of saying something profound, a sly dig at a pompous personage, or a rollicking tale to make me laugh. One of the things I believe about poetry is exactly expressed in the quote below. Another is that if we want kids to love poetry (and we should!) , then the very best thing we can do is share poems with them from an early age.
How to do this? Including poetry creation and word play in family and school activities is an excellent idea. As I said in the quote just above, when we want to teach poetry creation to kids, I believe the emphasis should be on helping them to enjoy playing with words. Are you as interested as I am in encouraging children to express themselves? How to Memorize a Poem. Has memory has become a vestigial organ like the appendix? The battle over writ/spoke, poem working on page or stage, rages. Let’s breathe hot oxygen on the conflagration with this, Step-by-Step-by-Heart.
Difficulty: Easy Time Required: An hour, a day, a lifetime Here's How: You memorize because you have to. Tips: Memorizing balances by heart and by rote. Recite It: Perform for an Audience. Memorize It: Learn Your Poem by Heart. Learning Recitation. How to Use This Video This "Learning Recitation" video was created to illustrate the art of poetry recitation for Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Along with the Teacher’s Guide, Audio Guide, and Judge’s Guide, use the video and companion guide to foster classroom discussion.
Students can watch these National Final recitations and evaluate the strengths (and weaknesses!) Of each, according to Poetry Out Loud evaluation criteria. As suggested in the Teacher’s Guide, discuss the merits of these performances, which ones the students like best and why and how the poems are different when read versus recited. With this practice, students will be better equipped to peer-review recitations and refine their own performances. The Art of Recitation - A Powerful Performance What makes a performance compelling? You’ll notice that each student has a profoundly internalized their poem. Please keep in mind that there is no definitive recitation or interpretation of any one poem. Keys. Interactive - Poetry games. Listen to Poetry. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.