Creative ideas for the non-traditional teacher.

Who said it?

“Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.”

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Dorothy Parker

D. Mark Twain

C. Charles Dickens

Guess the title…

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2

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4+

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Characters: Peter Quince

Theseus

Puck

Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Unscramble the names of these characters from a popular series:

• Robe Muddle

• Trap? Try hero.

• Yes! Earn Owl.

• Impulse Run

• ‘E Never Pass Us!

Dumbledore

Harry PotterRon Weasley

Remus Lupin

Severus Snape

Look out below

Number of great poets reportedly killed by a tortoise dropped from the air by a flying bird: 1

The poet: Aeschylus, the ancient Greek

Excuse me…

Real excuse notes from parents:

“Please excuse Mary for being absent.  She was sick and I had her shot.”

“Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.”

“Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.”

“Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.”

“Please eckuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.”

“My son is under the doctor's care and should not take P.E. today.  Please execute him.”

“Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.”

For teachers:

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

-Victor Hugo

Puzzled?

Try some new ideas:

Guess the title…

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Characters: Stradlater

Sally Hayes

Phoebe Caulfield

Answer: Catcher in the Rye

The meaning of rejection:

Number of poems Emily Dickinson wrote: 1,775

Number published during her lifetime:

7

Writing by Degrees

Which poet won a PhD at Harvard but never bothered to collect it?

D. Hart Crane

B. Ezra Pound

A. T.S. Eliot

C. Robert Frost

Great literature—by Emeril

Grape Expectations

Tequila Mockingbird

The Merchant of Venison

The

Lard of the Flies

Mansfield Pork“The Rime of the Ancient

Marinara”

Bad puns…

No holes bard

Shakespeare with holes

X marks the spot

Number of times, in all of Shakespeare’s works combined, a word appears that begins with the letter “x”: 1

The word: “Xanthippe,” wife of Socrates who is mentioned in The Taming of the Shrew.

Guess the title…

Answer: Twelfth Night

Real book titles

The Complete Monk (1966)

How to Be Happy Though Married (1895)

Engineering for Potatoes (1986)

How to Rob Banks Without Violence (1972)

My Duodenal Ulcer and I (1955)

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition (1984)

What figure of speech did JFK use in this famous line?“Ask not what your country can do for you,

ask what you can do for your country.”

A. metaphor

B. hyperbole

C. chiasmus

D. synecdoche

Guess the title…

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Characters: Rocinante

Sancho Panza

Dulcinea

Answer: Don Quixote

To bee or not to bee

Which of the following was not a winning word in a National Spelling Bee?

A. milieu

B. sarcophagus

D. onomatopoeia

C. elegiacal

Last words of authors:“My head, my head.” – Robert Louis

Stevenson

“How gratifying!” – Robert Browning

“Garrulous to the very last.”

– Walt Whitman

“A dying man can do nothing easy.” – Ben Franklin

“This wallpaper is killing me; one of us has got to go.” – Oscar Wilde

But can you get it in Pig Latin?

What’s the most translated book in history, other than The Bible?

A. Jane Eyre

B. Harry Potter

D. Don Quixote

C. Robinson Crusoe

Do you know the pseudonyms of these real writers?

• William Sidney Porter• Charles Dodgson• Mary Ann Evans• Samuel Clemons• Eric Arthur Blair

O. HenryLewis Carroll

George Eliot

Mark Twain

George Orwell

Reading the Signs

Sign seen at a camping store:

“Now is the winter of our discount tents…”

At the exit of an extended stay hotel:

“Parting is such suite sorrow.”

At a seaside resort:

“Once more unto the beach, dear friends!”

Looking for something new?

Creative ideas for the non-traditional teacher.

Real wordsThe Italian phrase “cavoli riscaldati” refers to an

attempt to revive a dead love affair. Its literal meaning:

A. lightly fried squid

D. stewed rice

B. reheated cabbage

C. uncooked partridge

Guess the title…

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Characters: Jewel

Cash

Darl

Answer: As I Lay Dying

The need for clarity…

Real headlines:

Grandmother of Eight Makes Hole in OnePolice Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

Farmer Bill Dies in House Milk Drinkers Are Turning to Powder William Kelly Was Fed Secretary

Name a word in which “y” is the only vowel.

Examples:

myth

hymn

rhythm

syzygy (real word!)

sylph

Literature is…

“news that stays news.” –Ezra Pound

“the notation of the heart.” –Thornton Wilder

“no other than the shadow of good talk.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

“only what people would say to each other if they had the chance.” –Christopher Morley

Guess the title…

Characters: Fagin

Agnes Fleming

Bill Sikes

Answer: Oliver Twist

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Name the most recent Nobel Prize winner for literature from each country:

• Chile

• Trinidad & Tobago

• South Africa

• Ireland

• Mexico

Pablo Neruda

Derek WalcottNadine Gordimer

Seamus Heaney

Octavius Paz

For writers:

“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”

-Peter De Vries

Words most often misspelled online in 2005:

dumbbell

occurrence

amateur

daiquiri

pastime

playwright

embarrass

acquit

Guess the title…

Characters: Hazel

Fiver

Bigwig

Answer: Watership Down

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Name a word that contains all five vowels.

Examples:

uncopyrightable

facetious

abstemious

miscellaneous

sequoia

uncomplimentary

Five words that came from names:

boycott (Charles C. Boycott, English land agent)

maverick (Samuel Maverick, Texas cattle owner)

bobby (Sir Robert Peel, founder of London police)

tawdry (St. Audrey, 7th c. queen of Northumbria)

sideburns (Gen. Ambrose Burnside, Union soldier)

Break away.

Creative ideas for the non-traditional teacher.

Need A Banned-Aid?

The most frequently banned books of this century:

1. Harry Potter series

2. The Chocolate War

3. Alice series

4. Of Mice and Men

5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Real words

A gynotikolobomassophile is a person who really likes to:

A. purchase great works of art

D. work more slowly when no one is watching

B. nibble on a woman’s earlobes

C. eat seafood

The need for clarity…

Real excerpts from church bulletins:

“For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.”

“Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.”

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight:  "Searching for Jesus."

“Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.”

“The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.”

“Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.”

Creative ideas for the non-traditional teacher.