Literary Free-for-All Guidelines, Due Dates, and Project Choices

Vocabulary Free-for-All Guidelines

Literary Free-for-All Book Selections

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Don’t underestimate the power and reach of this project! I will be tweeting out pictures of your work and, in many cases, tagging the authors themselves in the tweets. Every year, numerous authors comment on the projects and often retweet the pictures. One author, Kiera Cass, even autographed a student’s project while in town for a book signing! (See the picture below.) You never know what might happen!

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“Jabberwocky” (Text)

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Here is a version of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” poem set to music in the 1960s by the singer Donovan:

 

Disney’s animated Alice in Wonderland contains a scene in which the Cheshire cat sings the first stanza of “Jabberwocky” at several points.

 

The Muppets’ interpretation of the poem:

Click here for Mr. Schwarz’s notes on action-verb complements.