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Bruce Lansky is known as the "King of Giggle Poetry". He was born in 1941 in New York and studied philosophy in college. He decided to become a publisher and author. Some of his most well known books include poems for children about school, animals, and humor. His poems use techniques like rhyme, alliteration, humor, and imagery. This document provides biographical information about Bruce Lansky and discusses some of his writing techniques and themes. It also lists many of his published works and includes short snippets from two of his poems.
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The Joy of Reading and Writing Superman .docx
The
Joy
of
Reading
and
Writing:
Superman
and
Me
by
Sherman
Alexie
Los
Angeles
Times,
April
19
1998
I learned to read with a Superman comic book. Simple enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which
particular Superman comic book I read, nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue. I
cannot remember the plot, nor the means by which I obtained the comic book. What I can remember
is this: I was 3 years old, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian
Reservation in eastern Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents
usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by
reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular
paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.
My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid
reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and
anything else he could find. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch's Pawn Shop, Goodwill,
Salvation Army and Value Village. When he had extra money, he bought new novels at
supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They
were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemployment-
inspired creative energy, my father built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random
assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire
23-book series of the Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an
aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
I can remember picking up my father's books before I could read. The words themselves were
mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity,
the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a
paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a
common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge
delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small
paragraph within the United States. My family's house was a paragraph, distinct from the other
paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west.
Inside our house, each family member existed as a separate paragraph but still had genetics and
common experiences to link us. Now, using this logic, I can see my changed family as an essay of
seven paragraphs: mother, father, older brother, the deceased sister, my younger twin sisters and
our adopted little brother.
At the same time I was seeing the world in paragraphs, I also picked up that Supe ...
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Ibook
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"Language Instinct"
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Read Myron Uhlberg's essay on learning his first language--sign language--from his deaf parents.
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This poem describes the speaker's admiration for his father as a skilled farmer. As a child, the speaker wanted to emulate his father and learn to plough, but could only follow "in his broad shadow". The poem explores the close relationship between father and son through vivid descriptions of the father's expertise with the plough and horses. In the final stanza, the roles are reversed as the father now stumbles behind the speaker, showing the passage of time. Over three concise stanzas, the poem celebrates a father-son bond through farming tradition while also acknowledging the inevitable aging process.
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- 1. BRUCE LANSKY The King of Giggle Poetry “There are so many wonderful worlds to explore in books and poetry. Get your very own passport by learning to read and write the very best that you can.”
- 2. BIOGRAPHY Born on June 1, 1941 in Manhattan, New York Attended New York University; studied political science and economics; graduated with a major in philosophy and a minor in English Published his wife’s cookbook. Decided he wanted to be a publisher, built Meadowbrook Press, and became an author of baby name books and humor books for adults. Put together a book of children’s favorite poems Has written 3 books of poems, edited 6 poem anthologies, and a book series
- 3. TECHNIQUES Obvious rhyme scheme Alliteration Humor Easy to follow/relatable language Imagery Similes and metaphors Rhythm Free Verse Using made up words Musicality Fun and playful
- 4. THEMES Wide Variety Relatable for Students/Children School/Teachers Humor Nursery Rhymes Family Songs Animals
- 5. WORKS INCLUDE My Teacher’s In Detention My Dog Ate My Homework! If Pigs Could Fly… No More Homework! No More Tests! Mary Had a Little Jam and Other Silly Rhymes Funny Little Poems for Funny Little People Golf, It’s Just a Game What I Did on my Summer Vacation New Fangled Fairytale Books (1 and 2) Girls to the Rescue (1-7) Rolling in the Aisles And numerous baby name books
- 6. SNIPPETS OF WRITING Predictable My Brother's Bear My baby brother has a bear Poor as a church mouse. that travels with him everywhere. strong as an ox, He never lets the bear from sight. cute as a button, smart as a fox. He hugs it in his crib at night. And when my brother’s diaper smells, thin as a toothpick, the name of the bear is what he yells. white as a ghost, Which is a clever thing to do fit as a fiddle, because my brother named him Pooh. dumb as a post. bald as an eagle, neat as a pin, My Puppy Loves Flowers proud as a peacock, ugly as sin. My puppy’s in the garden. When people are talking He loves to smell the flowers. you know what they'll say To help them grow my puppy always as soon as they start to sprinkles them with showers. use a cliché.
- 7. CONTENT CONNECTION TEKS Connection: §110.16. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 5 (b) Knowledge and skills. (16) Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are expected to: (B) write poems using: (i) poetic techniques (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia); (ii) figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors);
- 8. ACTIVITY Reproduce the poem Predictable for students without the last word in each line. Have them fill in the blanks. Then, they should complete at least one stanza with fresh, new similes that use the same rhythm and rhyme pattern as Predictable.