pop song - imagine x3 - Necklace of Raindrops

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Prompts / date	26 September 2015
FMS Photo a day	pink
Text type	Pop song
Sentence type	Imagine x 3
Story	The Necklace of Raindrops

Imagine x3

adds interest, builds atmosphere

start with 'Imagine' them describe 3 parts of something separated by commas. Colon after 3rd and linked clause.

Imagine a place where the the sun always shines, where wars never happen, where no-one ever dies: in the Andromeda 5 system  there is such a planet.

Pop Song

Features:

Poetry

Repeated refrain

Variable stanzas detailing the narrative

Could focus on the most romantic or emotional parts of the story.

Catchy title

Imagine a necklace which keeps you dry, which keeps you safe in any storm, which lets you swim in the deepest ocean: this necklace from your godfather, the North Wind, does just that.

Hold on to the Raindrops

Based on, “A Necklace of Raindrops” by Joan Aiken. 
Adapted from, "Hold Back the River" by James Bay. 
Watch it on Youtube here / Original lyrics here

v - Tried to keep my necklace close to me,

But school took it away.

Meg was mean and stole it for herself,

But my godfather meant it for me.

ch - Hold on to the raindrops, let me stay dry in a storm

Hold on to the raindrops, so I

Can stop it from raining and swim in any sea

Hold on to the raindrops, hold on

v - My tears rolled down like rain

What will happen to me?

But I saved the fish from the sand

And the bird from the storm.

ch - Hold on to the raindrops, let me stay dry in a storm

Hold on to the raindrops, so I

Can stop it from raining and swim in any sea

Hold on to the raindrops, hold on

Oh, oho, oho, oho, oho

Oho, oho, oho, oho

ch2 - Missing necklace, missing necklace, will I find you?

Let us follow our friends’ clues

Missing necklace, missing necklace, will I find you?

Let us follow our friend’s clues.

v – I found the necklace

A princess has it

But now my godfather’s coming

He has the tenth drop

ch - Hold on to the raindrops, let me stay dry in a storm

Hold on to the raindrops, so I

Can stop it from raining and swim in any sea

Hold on to the raindrops, hold on

ch2 - Missing necklace, missing necklace, will I find you?

Let us follow our friends’ clues

Missing necklace, missing necklace, will I find you?

Let us follow our friend’s clues.

v - If I want my necklace back

I must make it rain for them

But he was angry, he dropped the raindrop

A tear rolled to the chain making ten

ch - Hold on to the raindrops, let me stay dry in a storm

Hold on to the raindrops, so I

Can stop it from raining and swim in any sea

Hold on to the raindrops, hold on

ch2 - Missing necklace, missing necklace, I have found you

Let me dry my eyes so I

Can make it start raining by blowing my nose

Let me dry my eyes so I….

Hold on to the raindrops, let me stay dry in a storm

Hold on to the raindrops, so I

Can stop it from raining and swim in any sea

Hold on to the raindrops, hold on.

The Mouse and the Lion - lipogram - verb, person

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23rd September

Well, as this is about a mouse and a lion, the only vowel left is an ‘a’. Let’s see how I get on.

Prompts / date	23  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	yellow
Text type	lipogram
Sentence type	Verb, person
Story	The mouse and the lion

verb, person

gives sentence importance

verb is followed by a comma then name or personal pronoun

Tiptoeing, he tried to sneak out.

Lipogram

Another Oulipian technique

The text is constrained by excluding a particular letter, usually a vowel.

The little grey mouse bumped into the huge, sleeping, yellow lion in the forest. Unwisely, he climbed up onto the lion, crowing: “Snoozy old lions do not bother us mice!” The lion, by now not sleepy, but wired, held the mouse down. His mouth drooling, thinking of his dinner.

The mouse begged for its life, “Don’t kill me. In time I will help you!”  The lion, finding this thought ridiculous, let the mouse go.

The next morning, the mouse does indeed help the lion, who is in a hunter’s net. The mouse chewed through the rope. The lion is reprieved, he couldn’t believe it: “You wonderful mouse!”

I have an ‘a’ – just one! Can you help me out? Can you Change that sentence?

Mirror snowball - Chicken Licken - 3 _ed

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21st September

Prompts / date	21 September 2015
FMS Photo a day	red
Text type	Mirror snowball
Sentence type	3 _ed
Story	Chicken Licken

Do you think Chicken Licken could have been related to the Little Red Hen (I had to get 'red' in there somehow!)

3 _ed: Describes emotions. Start with 3 adjectives ending in _ed, all followed by commas   

Confused, shocked, scared, the children ran from the burning building.

Mirror Snowball

Oulipian technique

Poem with one word on the first line, one more word on each line until there are eight words. Thenn one less word on each line until the last line has one word.

Each line must make sense on its own.

1 Licken,

2 The Chicken:

3 “The sky’s falling!”

4 “Oh no!” said Ducky.

5 “We must tell the king!”

6 “Where are you going?” asked Goosey.

7 “The sky’s falling! We’re telling the King!”

8 Confused, shocked, bewildered, the friends set off aimlessly.

7 ”Where are you going?” asked Foxy Loxy.

6 “To the King, the sky’s falling!”

5 “I’ll help you, follow me!”

4 And so they did…

3 To his den

2 Oh no…

1 Dinner!

I heard - The boy who cried wolf

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9th September 2015

I'm getting used to this 5-7 syllable format. The more I do it, the less I have to count the syllables. Have a go!

Prompts / date	9th September 2015
FMS Photo a day	I hear
Text type	Naga-uta
Sentence type	Adjective, same adjective
Story	The boy who cried wolf

Adj, same adj	A phrase with an adjective, repeat same adjective straight after the comma. Adds detail and explains. It was a cold planet, cold due to the distance from the sun
Naga-uta	Japanese for 'long song';has mini-Haikus, each stanza is 5-7, the last is 7-7. Separate chains of naga-uta can go off at a tangent, to add more detail, explain an underlying motive...

I heard the boy cry wolf but I ignored him: a wolf killed one of his sheep.
'No one believes a liar even when they tell the truth'

(disclaimer - this didn't really happen. I would have noticed a wolf that big,
and I know that the sponge doesn't look much like a sheep)

A young shepherd boy

Watching for a big, bad wolf,

                                                                       He’s so very bored.

                                                                       For weeks now, there’s been no sign

Looking down the hill

He sees the farmers working

                                                                           The shepherd boy looks

                                                                           At his unused warning bell

                                                                           The shepherd boy thinks

                                                                           ‘I wonder what they would do…’

‘Help! Help! There’s a wolf!’

The boy jumped and rang the bell.

The men ran to help,

but no wolf was to be seen.

‘I chased him away!’

‘Well done! What a brave young man!’

                                                                        ‘That was fun,’ he thought.

                                                                         I will try that trick again.

‘Help! Help! There’s a wolf!’

The boy jumped and rang the bell.

                                                                          

The men dropped their tools,

Again they came to his aid.

Once again, no wolf.

There was no praise, no ‘brave boy.’

                                                                           The men were doubtful,

                                                                           doubtful because of his grin.

                                                                          He’d chased off a wolf

                                                                           And yet he wasn’t shaken

                                                                           

He did it again,

Again no wolf was there

They were angry now.

‘Don’t cry wolf, when there’s no wolf.’

                                                                           The daft boy just grinned

                                                                           He loved the sport of ‘cry wolf’

Next day he saw a …

‘WOLF! HELP! HELP!’ He rang his bell.

                                                                           He shouted loudly,

                                                                           Loudly so they’d know it’s true.

                 

‘Does he think we’re fools?

The villagers ignored him.

At sunset the boy

didn’t come down with the sheep

The boy was weeping

when they went up to find him.

‘The wolf ate a sheep:

I called, but you did not come.’

No one believes a liar

even when they tell the truth.