First of all, proper credit to Jeremy Howard for this brilliant teaching method. This was a great activity for student and teacher alike. I laughed until I made my I'm-laughing-so-hard-I'm-uglier-than-normal face. (You're welcome for not posting a picture.) This first mad-lib is best described as "laced with profanity." Kidding. But, I ask all readers (including my mother) to forgive the one-time foray into bad taste. You'll know what I refer to when you get there. It was just too funny and creative to shut down.
Original: A Bird Came Down the Walk
11th Graders: A Shark Came Down the Cave
A Shark came down the Cave -
He did not know I stabbed
He bit a Platypus in halves
And ate the fellow, fried,
And then he drank a Rum
From an obnoxious Trough -
And then skied sidewise to the Sam's
To let a Liger pwn.
He hiked with fluffy eyes
That drop-kicked all around -
They looked like balding Capes, I thought -
He stalked his feed-sack Head
Like one in danger, Haggard,
I offered him a Corn
And he guffawed his prairies
And burped him softer home -
Than Peas divide the Afro,
Too baboon-butt red for a seam -
Or Kangaroos, off Banks of Dawn
Peel, harebrained as they spike.
Original: We Never Know How High We Are
11th Graders: We Never Know How Fat We Are
We never now how fat we are
Till we are asked to smack
And then if we are striped to leaf
Our statures snipe the beans -
The Catechism we recite
Would be a caramel thing
Did not ourselves the Liters throw
For fear to be a Chief -
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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