I'm reading the description of Chaunticleer and Pertelote from the NPT at our poetry reading thing in a short bit. I've decided to do a participatory, interactive reading, and ask half the audience to make a "cockadoodledoo" sound whenever I say Chaunticleer's name, and the other half to make a clucking sound when I say Pertelote's name.
This will either make everyone laugh a lot, or get me disinvited to future poetry readings.
That is awesome! I have my Brit Lit I students do a read-through of the NPT (slightly abridged) in Middle English, and back at New SLAC, we did it with chicken noises. (Sadly, that was SO not going to work given the personality of my class last fall, but I live in hope for next semester.)
ReplyDeletethat is really sort of fabulous. However, I am a children's librarian and we go for that sort of thing.
ReplyDeletei LOVE that you're doing this! way to make poetry come alive for the students.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's so cool! Have fun.
ReplyDeleteI should try something like that in my class. Maybe my students would wake up...it's an 8:00 class.
ReplyDeleteIt worked out pretty well :)
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