Transcript Chalking It Up

Poetry
(Limericks)
In our lesson today, we will
• Learn to recognize the rhyming pattern of a poem or
song.
• Learn how to Annotate a Poem
• Read a few examples of Limericks.
* Write one original limericks about yourself or a
friend.
Oliver Twist
1838
1968
2012
• Second novel by English author Charles
Dickens, published in 1838.
• Musical Film directed by Carol Reed
• 1969, Oliver! Won six Academy Awards.
• Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles
Dickens.
• Oliver (The Musical) is now on tour in the UK.
Task 1 – Arrange the underlined words in alphabetical order.
Write the vowels using a different colour.
1. crumb (
)
2. crust (
)
3. ________
4. ________
5. ________
6. ________
7. ________
8. ________
9. ________
10.________
Food, glorious food !
Title
Food, glorious food !
Hot sausage and mustard !
Stanza
While we’re in the mood.
Cold jelly and custard !
Pease pudding and saveloys!
What next is the question.
Rich gentlemen have it, boys:
Indigestion!
= Number of syllables
= Rhyming Pattern
Food Glorious food!
We’re anxious to try it.
What are Limericks?
Limericks are humorous verses which are made up
of five lines
Example,
There once was a girl in Ghana. A
She really likes banana. A
One day, she met a monkey. B
The monkey was very smelly. B
She said, I am going back to China. A
Main Features of a Limerick?
•The limerick poem takes it’s name from
Limerick, Ireland.
•A limerick is a humorous, nonsense poem.
•The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of
5 lines with a strict rhyme scheme. (AABBA)
•Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme.
•Lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
Examples of a Limerick
A patient of Dr. Black
Had an awful pain in his back
The doctor cured his ill
With a huge purple pill
And a ride around the park, piggyback!
Anonymous
Examples of a Limerick?
There was once a young girl who said, ‘Why’
Can't I look in my ear with my eye?
If I put my mind to it
I'm sure I can do it.
You never can tell till you try."
Anonymous
Examples of a Limerick
A circus performer named Brian
Once smiled as he rode on a lion.
They came back from the ride,
But with Brian inside,
And the smile on the face of the lion.
Anonymous
Can you finish these limericks
A rocket inventor named Bright
Once travelled much faster than ?
light
He started one day
In the relative way
And returned on the previous ?
night
In our lesson today, have you………?
• Learn to recognize the rhyming pattern of a
poem or song.
• Learn how to Annotate a Poem
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