Planning Post:
- · In the poem “Babes in the Wood” the author uses a lot of similar or the same words.
- · Ex. Say-day, know, night-plight, dead-red, cried-died.
- · The author gave did a good job at keeping the story on track and making the reader understand what was going on.
- · Two poor children were taken on a Summer’s day.
- · They were left in the woods.
- · Every night they cried and they laid down and died.
- · The birds brought leaves and put them on top of the children.
- · They sang to them all day long.
- · I thought this was an interesting story because normally you have happy ending with children stories, and this story is clearly not a happy ending for the children.
- · I am also raking a children’s literature course and that is helping me understand this book even more.
- · I enjoy the descriptive words and comparison of the colors throughout the whole piece
British and Celtic Research:
· Celtic stories have been preserved through contemporary Roman and Christian sources.
· The stories tend to be of ancestral mythologies and was writing during the middle ages.
· The British side is a folk tradition that was developed over centuries.
· Most common idea of British folk is Robin Hood.
· This is largely connected and draws from Celtic Germanic and Christian sources.
· Some common idea of folklore found in England is a black dog which represents the Devil or relating to Death.
· Brownie is another one and it is related to a type of hob. They live in the houses and do tasks around the house to make sure it stays clean.
· Dwarfs and elves are common topics in British literature.
Conclusion:
Overall I think I want to make a story about the children and do the poem justice. Instead of making it short I want to take the same descriptive words and vibrant coloring to make a full story about this two young kids that were taken too soon.
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Hi Ace, just a quick note: I am not quite sure why you did this random research on British folklore; the idea is to do research on the story you are interested in, so before you write your version of the story, do some research on this story, okay? It has a whole article at Wikipedia: Babes in the Wood. That link will then lead you to other links, and so on. The idea is to do research that will help you learn more about the story you are interested in, and there is a lot you can learn about this famous story if you do some research, starting with the Wikipedia article about it. I hope that will be useful when you go to write the story next week!
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