Friday, September 16, 2011

Jabberwocky Poem

Today in class we discussed:

Adjectives: describe nouns
examples: Green, happy, messy, short, furry
Adverbs: Describe an action, usually ends in ly
examples: quickly, modestly, stupidly
Nouns: Person, place, or thing
examples: cat, Calgary, school, boy
Verb: Action words
examples: run, jump, skip

We read some Mad libs where students had to provide words to fill in the blanks to create a nonsense story. If you would like to see them or play them online you can visit:
Mad libs

We read the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll students were asked to identify the adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs and replace them to create a poem that made sense.

Link to handout:
Jabberwocky Poem and handout