Mrs. Flake's Class
In our 3rd rotation, we memorized the poem "Snail at Moonrise" by Joyce Sidman. We listened to 3 samples of music loops to play in the background of the poem recitation and talked about what "sound pictures" that music brought to mind. The class voted on which one to use as background for their recitation:
Flake Snail poem.mp3Each night, Snail
Unhooks himself from earth,
Climbs a slick trail of silver
Up,up
The horizon of log,
Up stems of leaves
To their dewy tips
Seeking
With his tiny sandpaper tongue
Morsels of green
To mix in his dark, moist body
And spin
Into whorls of light
Shell - maker
Moon - maker
Gleaming silver-bright
Each night:
Darkness
Into
Light
