BrainJuice: English, Fresh Squeezed!: Handprint Books
by Carol Diggory Shields Author
(From Amazon): Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems!In this newest addition to the BrainJuice series, Carol Diggory Shields undertakes to impart all the really important facets of the English language -- and impart she does! Do you want the last word on punctuation? Spelling? Diagramming a sentence? Drafting a letter, keeping a journal, writing poetry? No aspect of English is left unexamined, and both students and teachers will not only find BrainJuice: English extremely cool, but they will be forever grateful to the author for supplying them with "36 Ways to Say Cool" (see sample below*).Supporting the author's heroic efforts to make English funny, comprehensible and comprehensive, as well as irresistible, Tony Ross offers art that is funny, comprehensible, comprehensive, and extremely irresistible!*A small sampling from "36 Way to Say Cool": Groovy, great, the cat's meow, awesome, chill, phat, wow, marvy, dandy, swell, divine, nifty, peachy-keen, fine!
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1593540531
- Print Status
- In Print
- Poems
- 38
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Hand Print
- Copyright
- 2004
Poems
- 1 Surrounded (nouns)
- 2 Verbless (verbs)
- 3 To Be or Not to Be (irregular verb "be")
- 4 Who Are We? (pronouns)
- 5 They're Everywhere! (prepositions)
- 6 Living and Breathing (adjectives)
- 7 Adverbcadabra (adverbs)
- 8 Status of My Homework about Contractions (contractions)
- 9 Rools (spelling)
- 10 Tension (verb tenses)
- 11 Sentence Romance (Sentence structure)
- 12 Why? (interrogative sentence)
- 13 !!! (exclamatory sentences)
- 14 Punctuation Promenade (punctuation marks)
- 15 The ABC's of the ABC's
- 16 English or English
- 17 Interjection Connection (interjections)
- 18 Meet the Palindromes (palindromes)
- 19 Awesomely Alliterated (alliteration)
- 20 Clickety-Clack (onomatopoeia)
- 21 Searching (similies)
- 22 Metaphorically Speaking (metaphores)
- 23 Speaking Greek (synonym/antonym)
- 24 36 Ways to Say Cool (word choice)
- 25 How Many Homonyms? (homonyms)
- 26 I Need a Book! (book report)
- 27 Oral Report (oral reports)
- 28 The Outline (report outline)
- 29 Poetry Dances
- 30 Poetry Assignment #1: Haiku
- 31 Poetry Assignment #2: Limerick
- 32 Poetry Assignment #3: Blank Verse
- 33 Poetry Assignment #4: Shape Poem
- 34 Poetry Assignment #5: The Epic
- 35 The Word (dictionary)
- 36 What's Another Word for Thesaurus? (thesaurus)
- 37 The Letter (letter writing)
- 38 Dear Journal (journaling)
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