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Title: Where My Clothes Are
Submitted: May 5th, 2004 @ 7:42 PM
Author: Megan Locey
Benchmark Standards: ART.Content Standard 1: Performing: Middle School,ART.1.T.MS.1

Grades:
3-5

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Description:
Purpose: To have students learn the importance of varying the pitch, rate and volume of their voices. Emphasizing different words will alter the meaning of the poem that the students are reading.Use the following poem by Bruce Lansky for this exercise:

Where My Clothes Are
Dirty clothes should be put in the hamper.
Clean clothing belongs in the drawer.
But it takes too much time and it takes too much work-
so I throw them all over the floor.

Have students pair up and practice reading the poem to each other.
Have them read the first two lines in the following voices, followed each time by the last two lines in their own voice.

A. Their own mother or father.
B. A really mean or strict person.
C. With an accent of their choice.
D. With a really sassy voice.
E. With a rally bored voice.
F. With a cheerful voice.
G. With a scientist’s voice.
H. With an artist’s voice.
I. With a police officer’s voice.
J. With an opera singer’s voice.

Tip: Encourage your students to have fun with this exercise. Have them vary their volume, pitch and rate greatly. Remind them to over exaggerate and to be as dramatic as possible.

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