Most of the time I like to mix it up in my classroom and do something fun. So last week we read the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol, if you haven't read it you should google it. It's some good reading it's also from one of my favorite books of all time Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Anyway....the poem is basically made up of nonsense words (portmanteau if you want to know the fancy English term for it) and I made my 10th graders make up their own poem/story like this and give me the dictionary terms for the words they made up. Most of them turned out pretty well...especially this one....
"Beware the Tutenstein. This creanimal has long talaws and sharp feeths.
Originating from Hagashain, a country in Western Europe, this creanimal can creep up on you and surtack you when you least expect it."
Tutenstein: English teacher who has a tendency to creep. Tutwiler + Frankenstein= Tutenstein
Creanimal: creature + animal
Talaws: talons + claws
Feeths: teeth + fangs
Hagashain: country in Western Europe
Surtack: surprise attack
It's by this girl, who likes to think that I'm a creeper when in reality she is the one who creeps around my classroom and bugs me. She thinks it's pretty funny to pick on me and I accept this because she doesn't mean anything by it and she's a really good student. I just thought this poem was funny.
In other news...my students sent me 12 'candygrams' today...I would say about 9 of them said 'from your stalker' and the other 3 actually said Merry Christmas. Needless to say, my students are a bunch of strange children who stalk me. But....it could be worse.
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