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Post to the Host Send your own post to the host. I've been listening to your show ever since I was a teenager, and I love it so much. I am a fourth grade teacher now, and I would like to help my students become storytellers. What advice do you have for them or for me? Angela M. -- Have a unit on jokes: put 40 or 50 narrative jokes in a hat and pass it around and everyone has to tell that joke, impromptu. Introduce them to the classic stories — you, Angela, telling them the stories — The Little Mermaid (the original H.C. Andersen version), Ulysses, Noah and the Ark, the Prodigal Son, Romeo and Juliet, B'rer Rabbit, Snow White, and so forth — and introduce them to the idea of oral impromptu narrative.... Continue reading» | Permalink» | Comments (7) » Post to the host: Thank you-- Joyce Sparrow -- Her husband's name is James, hers is Joyce, so you can see where that came from, and Sparrow is a perfect name for a wealthy couple. They roost in an enormous apartment high above the Loop in Chicago, and it's the week before Christmas. He wants to migrate to their nest on Hawaii and she is feeling ill and so they linger as Christmas mounts up around them. He dreads Christmas. She loves it. And she is the heroine of the story, so you should be pleased. Send along your address and I'll sign a copy of the book for you. Permalink» | Comments (0) » When I was in grade school, I was taught that a poem has to rhyme. What I hear you read on Writer's Almanac, to me is NOT poetry. I say its an essay. Why do you call them "poems" when they don't rhyme? Thank you, -- Poems may rhyme but it's not required all the time. Permalink» | Comments (7) » | | | |
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