What's Scheduled for this Week:

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING WORK:

• First, listen to my short weekly audio lecture. You can listen to the lecture in either Real Audio format or Windows Media format.
• Next, explore the following links:
• If you haven't done so already, you should be very close to selecting a course project topic (did you look over the Possible Topics list yet?)
• Look at some Athletic cheers (why not a cheer for folklore?)
• Visit a site that has a few Jump-rope rhymes. Try to notice what topics the rhymes cover?
• Visit a Military Cadence site with some rhymed "Jodies"
• Read a short historical exploration of Ring Around the Rosie (Discover if it really refers to the Black Death).
• Visit the Mother Goose Pages (lots of nursery rhymes here).
• Here's a long list of most every children's song and the lyrics
• Drinking Toasts (look for the rhyming ones).
• Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts-- why do children find saying such rhymes irresistible?
• Playing the Dozens (Whether this should best be placed under proverbial comparison, insults or folk poetry is open to question, but some of these "snaps" will make you laugh!. Note: many of these snaps are crude and/or offensive).
• Cowboy Poetry? Well, here's an example I wrote. Here's a student example. There are also quite a few cowboy poetry sites on the net. Writing a cowboy poem is included under one of your posting to the bulletin board options. Remember that the appreciation of any art requires a sense of discovery and receptiveness--use your curiosity, not your prejudice as you approach folk poetry. I have included a brief historical summary of cowboy lore as background. Visit a cowboy poetry site in Wyoming or use your search engine to locate other cowboy poems.. Borrow a saddle, sing to a cow, and try to write a cowboy poem now?
• Bumper Stickers. Visit a site that has an interesting collection of  bumper stickers . Ask yourself why we display messages on our cars, t-shirts, and hats?
• Epitaphs--You might want to visit a cemetery in Weed or one closer to you.
• You can also visit a site that has some great epitaph examples, and it helps you create your own epitaph .
• Can't wait to write a limerick? Well, here's a site that has a few examples of Limericks
  
  
• First Collection Sheet is due by end of this week. Review collection sheet example carefully.
• Review the  Homefun on Rhyme and Folk Poetry (this is not a graded assignment, and you do not turn it in, but it does summarize what I think you should know from the week's reading)
•  Take a short quiz on rhyme. You should review the weekly homefun before you take the quiz.
• Read pp 170--195
• Make your weekly posting to the Discussion Board.