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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