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Teaching Essay, Ken Damerow Cartoon Wishes I wish that my friend had a kitty and Sponge Bob from the Pacific, but that he would be blue. I wish Yogi Bear could ride a black lion all the way across the universe. I wish Sponge Bob could ride a tiger’s chopper with Pawlser to my house and give me that chopper and an orange country chopper helmet. I wish Dora the Explorer could find a purple monkey in a church. I wish Bugs Bunny could play with an orange basketball with a monkey on a baseball diamond. I wish Tweedy Bird could hop with a blue bunny to China. I wish my house was purple if it had a bird on it, and it was a blue jay. I wish I had two pink and green fairy odd parents so they can poof me an elephant to step on people. I wish Patrick would ride a pink whale with yellow spots. I wish Marvin the Martian could ride on a dolphin into Lake Michigan. I wish Marik Ishtar would team up with me, and we beat everybody in the world and wear black, purple, and gold and rode tigers. I wish Pooh bear would ride on a turquoise dog to the sun. I wish Asia would turn Tweedy Bird into a red leech. I wish Bugs Bunny was blue and could ride a bull. I wish Bugs Bunny and all the bunnies a green Christmas in Heaven. I wish Sponge Bob a white Christmas with a whale. I wish Timmy Tuner can ride a pink starfish all the way down south. I wish Yu-Gi-Oh would come to my house on a woodchuck that is orange and give me a little beaver, and they would dump off a bridge. 8
Teaching Essay, Ken Damerow I wish bugs were gone. Bugs, bugs, bugs. I hate bugs. Bugs everywhere that I love. Bugs are green, red, blue, and yellow, and they make my legs feel like Jell-O. Every time I stare at a fly, it makes me look like a twit when I chase after it. I wish Bugs Bunny was small so he could ride on a pink and purple rabbit to go to Canada. I wish Kirby could suck up a blue ball to transform into Dash Kirby. I wish James Bond could ride a donkey to my house. I wish Patomon rode a zebra-striped antelope to a Texas rodeo. I wish I had a blue pig that would take me anywhere I wanted with Garfield. -Mr. Damerow’s 4 th Grade, September 2004 A number of interesting ideas came from the creation of this poem. Although each line shares a common identity, an identity the students discussed beforehand and voted on, there are always those students who don’t follow directions. These lines in the poem where the pattern is interrupted gives the poem an unexpected delight to the reader and indeed even the rhyme that by itself might sound sing-song, in the context of this poem, satisfies the ear before returning to the established pattern at the end. I pointed out how this poem sets up an expectation in the reader but then delights when the poems varies the pattern. They quickly identified the same technique in the next poem we discussed. Another idea came from the phrases, “fairy odd parents” and “dump off a bridge.” After reading the poem to the class for the first time, two hands shot into the air, and both students who authored these lines immediately told us that they meant fairy god parents and jump off a bridge, respectively. But several students in the class protested that the mistakes were better and should remain in the poem. I called this a happy accident and told the students that this kind of thing happens all the time to even seasoned professionals who are smart enough to know which is better, the mistake or the original thought. Both students beamed and agreed to keep the mistakes. 9
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