Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life March Challenge
Continuing the celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, I pulled an idea out of my hat! Let’s write about Dr. Seuss quotes. A search for quotes was easy. They are everywhere. Not just here. Not just there. But everywhere!
Choosing a quote that spoke to you was easy. Or it was hard. Some students decided to take on rhyming. But with that decision, you have to consider rhythm too, so I found myself next to Trace beating out Ta-da-ta-da-dum on the table.
Some students went for prose. Some for poems. Some wrote their own quotes.
Once again, my students blew me away with their creativity, their depth of thought, and their imagination.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. SeussLife is a cake,
You can make a pretty, delicious cake,
Or a boring, plain cake.Fantasy is the icing on the cake,
Nonsense is the silly sprinkles.Knowledge is the candle on the cake,
And smiles, smiles are the light, the flame.Look!
It’s a wonderful, tasty cake!(Click on her name to leave comments.)
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and The LoraxAlone,
not fun at all.
You look at the monstrous jungle,
while your comfort is lost in the sea.
The light in you is unfound.
Creeping around waiting for you to bite,
Like brim in a pond.
Then you actually get it on your hook,
you fight your emotions,
like the fish’s strength.
Then you reel it in,
and are filled with light.–Austin, 6th grade (Click his name to leave comments on his post.)
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss quote? I love so many of them, but this is the one that spoke to me about this weird and crazy Slice of Life Challenge. We fall in mutual weirdness and call it Slice of Life!
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