Friday Class: Week 3

I've got a good class planned for this week.

• We'll be going over Shel Silverstein's "Messy Room". The kids had to write 8-line poems about their rooms, so I'm anticipating some hilarity.
• I'm introducing rhyme and poetic form.
• We'll be looking at suburbia in America. What is it? How does it exist? What are some facets of suburban lifestyle?
• Strip Malls, Dead Malls.
• Finally, an overview of Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II"

To explain the idea of form to the kids, I wrote a limerick:

I wish my dog would stop licking my feet!

His tongue is slimy, and I can’t stand its heat!

But I can’t send him away,

For he simply won’t obey,

Until I get out of my chair and give him a treat.

I am, of course, referring to Samurai Dog.