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Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein. Page one: Background information. Sheldon Allan Silverstein (b. September 25, 1930/d. May 10, 1999) Author, Cartoonist, Songwriter University of Illinois- expelled, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts & Roosevelt University Drafted into United States Armed Forces during 1950s

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Shel Silverstein

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  1. ShelSilverstein

  2. Page one:Background information • Sheldon Allan Silverstein (b. September 25, 1930/d. May 10, 1999) Author, Cartoonist, Songwriter • University of Illinois- expelled, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts & Roosevelt University • Drafted into United States Armed Forces during 1950s • Worked as cartoonist for Playboy magazine, then a friend suggested he write/draw for material aimed towards children • Interest in Art: "When I was a kid - 12, 14, around there - I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls. But I couldn't play ball, I couldn't dance... So, I started to draw and to write.”

  3. The Toy Eater • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qAGZA0Itc

  4. Page Two:Silverstein’s style Silverstein’s writing • Rhyming schemes (…But so delicious, goodness sake- I could have eaten a lentil-soup lake.) • Plays on words, unique diction (…Would a mop become a mopsicle? Would a cop become a copsicle?) • Irony/Figurative language (Can anyone lend me two eighty-pound rats? I want to rid my house of cats.) Silverstein’s illustrations • Black and white, printed on “special” paper • Refused to have books published in paperback Excerpts from A Light in the Attic & Where the Sidewalk Ends

  5. Page three:Silverstein on the web http://www.shelsilverstein.com/ • Great resource for both young learners and educators • Wide variety of games, printables, animations • Lessons, activities, event kits • Ideal for visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, auditory learners

  6. page Four: Shel in the classroom Ideas to integrate Silverstein into curriculum • “The Giving Tree”(Civics lesson, Arbor Day, Earth Day, Thanksgiving) • Create student journals with poems, students draw accompanying pictures • Remove title of poems to make inferences, create own title or story based off of image, to encourage higher-level thinking

  7. resources • Amick, Sarah. (2009). Shel Silverstein. Librarypoint. Retrieved 2 June 2014. http://www.librarypoint.org/shel_silverstein • http://www.pinterest.com/weareteachers/shel-silverstein-lessons-and-activities/ • Sheldon Allan Silverstein. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 5 June 2014. http://www.biography.com/people/shel-silverstein-9483912.

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