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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 Shopping (a "number-dabbling" poem) (one two) when I (three four) went to (five six) the corner (seven) market (eight nine) every cent (ten) bought me one thing (eleven) what was that (twelve) that I bought? (thirteen fourteen fifteen) ought (sixteen) I reveal to you what I (seventeen) purchased hmmm? okay (eighteen) honeydew (nineteen) melon (twenty) mmmm! [This poem is a little "recitation exercise." It can be recited by two people: one saying the numbers, the other telling the story. If it's done that way, they both try to keep the rythm of the lines going as if it were one person speaking both parts. Even better than two people, is if it is two groups of people -- one group for each part, of course. They can also devise hand gestures that go with the recittation. For example, the numbers people can do very vertical gestures, while the storytelling people can do storytelling gestures -- going leftwards or rightwards and at all kinds of angles too! If there is a large enough group, the numbers reciters can divide into two sections: one for even numbers, the other for odd numbers. I this case, the even numbers can do horizontal gestures, and the odd people can do vertical gestures, and the storytelling people can do all kinds of gestures, but especially angles, and maybe even some circles. Then, after they hvae recited it with all these gestures, they can recite it again with NO gestures -- and speaking intensely but very quietly. Then, the numbers people can whisper the parts while the storytelling people speak rather strongly and grandly. (But they have to be able to listen to the hushed tones of the numbers people in the silent parts when they are not speaking. A final phase is when the numbers are not spoken. Instead, the numbers people CLAP their hands to represent the numbers. Another phase, even after that, is when the storytelling people only clap (one clap for each syllable) instead of saying any words. Finally, the numbers people can use other syllables -- like "oooo" or "oohhh" or "mmmm" instead of clapping, and the story people can say the words of the story, but in a quiet -- but intense -- tone of voice.)] |
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