Week 12 Reading: Nursery Rhymes (Reading A)

Riddles: Humpty Dumpty

  1. Nursery Rhymes: Tales
    • little confusing on when a tale ends and a new one begins 
    • slight rhyming, not very forced 
    • they have the mother goose and golden egg in this section, could write about this one
    • most follow an aa, bb stanza 
  2. Nursery Rhymes: Proverbs
    • thought it would be about the bible 
    • handled more of little day to day advice 
      • guideline of morals 
    • seems like a good way for kids to unconsciously remember what to do
  3. Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 1
    • longer, tell more of a story
    • fox doing the tricking again
    • makes me wonder how the songs are actually sung and in what setting 
    • mostly aa, bb, cc stanzas 
      • also a lot of ab ab 
  4. Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 2
    • The songs are the most difficult to take notes one
    • they seem to send regional or cultural advice 
      • but still hard to be sure because the context in which the songs were used 
    • Hot Cross Buns! 
    • Three blind mice 
    • Interesting how some have a chorus when they are typically unstructured 
  5. Nursery Rhymes: Riddles**
    • This was my favorite section 
    • I enjoyed stalling near the end to then scroll down and see the answer 
    • I think I would like to try and rewrite a few of these if we need to write a new story**
    • The egg was my favorite 
  6. Nursery Rhymes: Paradoxes
    • I had to look up what paradox meant for this to make sense 
      • "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."
    • Some had a clear meaning, others I had to read very closely 
    • leaves a ton open to infer 
  7. Nursery Rhymes: Charms and Lullabies
    • Peter Piper! 
    • Bye, Baby Bunting seems easy to recreate 
    • Rock-a-bye baby
      • two versions of it, the second is really pretty 
    • The hickup song was nice 
  8. Nursery Rhymes: Games
    • Jack be nimble 
    • Kind of hard to understand what to do, but the rhymes sound good 
    • Either really long, or really short
      • I like how most of the last ones translate what to do 
    • Hickory Dickory Dock 
Lang, Andrew. “The Nursery Rhyme Book.” Myth-Folklore Unit: Nursery Rhymes, 2016, mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/04/myth-folklore-unit-nursery-rhymes.html.

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