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01 Mar 11 - 11:49 PM (#3105344) Subject: Recitations for Kids From: Joe Offer Our local Catholic school is participating in the "Read Across America" program, and the school librarian wants me to read to the eighth grade (13-14 years old) for half an hour tomorrow (thanks for the short notice, Julie). I was thinking of doing three recitations - one from the British Isles, one from North America, and one from Australia. Any suggestions? Please post the text or a link to the text. -Joe- |
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02 Mar 11 - 05:40 AM (#3105466) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Micca For the pure use of language and alliteration you could do Lepanto by GK Chesterton |
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02 Mar 11 - 06:29 PM (#3105877) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Joe Offer Hi, Micca - I liked Lepanto but I didn't think US 13-yr-olds would be mature enough to understand and appreciate it. My wife and her mother vetoed a number of the pieces I wanted to do as too gruesome or depressing [like "Babes in the Wood" and "White Squall" (Stan Rogers) and the cauldron scene from Macbeth and "Yarn of the Nancy Bell" (W.S. Gilbert) and Reincarnation]. The school librarian said it might be better if I didn't sing the Berrymans' "A Chat With Your Mother" (The F-Word Song), so that did away with another idea. I tore the house apart looking for the Leaving Home collection of Lake Wobegon stories by Garrison Keillor, but I didn't find it. I took along Robert McCloskey's Homer Price stories, even thought I thought them too young for the kids. Since this year is a special celebration of Dr. Seuss, the school librarian was supposed to have a Dr. Seuss book for me to read, and I chose Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?, but that fell through and I was left to my own devices. I did:
I think they liked "Rindercella" best. -Joe- |
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02 Mar 11 - 06:46 PM (#3105884) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: catspaw49 What a wuss.......The kids would really have loved "The Farter from Sparta" but did you even think of it? Of course not......... What a wuss......... Spaw |
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02 Mar 11 - 06:48 PM (#3105887) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Joe Offer I woulda hadda leave town, Spaw..... |
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02 Mar 11 - 07:20 PM (#3105911) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: katlaughing Don't forget the Cremation of Sam McGee. We heard Rindercella at my son's high school and roared. To this day, we joke around about the pransome hince. You could always do something by Badger Clark; this one for instance. |
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02 Mar 11 - 08:26 PM (#3105934) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Joe Offer Oh, I had "Sam McGee" handy, but chose "Blasphemous Bill" on the spur of the moment because the kids all knew "Sam."Maybe I should have done "Sam" anyhow because I do it well and it was one that the kids really liked - they broke into grins when I mentioned it. "Bill" is good, too. The kids were so nice - I had a wonderful time with them. -Joe- |
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02 Mar 11 - 09:23 PM (#3105949) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Micca Joe, I can still do much of "Nancy Belle" from Memory and I first lerned it when I was about 8 years old from a book of my fathers, " the Bab Ballads" his other poet, (whom I didnt take to) was someone called James Greenleafe Whittier |
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03 Mar 11 - 12:04 AM (#3105983) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: GUEST Sorry this popped onto the radar so late. From McGuffies Eclectic Reader a family favorite for memorization DT SongID=7379 Tom Twist |
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03 Mar 11 - 01:22 AM (#3106001) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: Joe Offer Thanks, Garg - Tom Twist is a good one, and I had forgotten about it. -Joe- |
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02 Dec 11 - 08:07 AM (#3267233) Subject: RE: Recitations for Kids From: GUEST I would like some recitations for christmas, any help or sugggestions please. Thank you |