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JOYCE SIDMAN “Writing helps us understand the world; we'd be lost without it.”

Joyce Sidman

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JOYCE SIDMAN

“Writing helps us understand the world; we'd be lost without it.”

Born and raised in Connecticut

BIOGRAPHY

Currently lives in Wayzata, Minnesota

Enjoys snuggling with her dog and reading

Earned Bachelor’s Degree in German from Wesleyan University

Spent a lot of time as a child in the Poconos area:-deer watching-blueberry picking-tractor riding

Volunteers at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, MN

She has written close to 100 books! (eleven are published)

• As well as: -Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night (Newbery Medal nominated)-Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors-Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems-Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry-This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness-The World According to Dog: Poems and Teen Voices-Eureka!: Poems about Inventors-Just Us Two: Poems/Animal Dads-Like the Air: Poems-When I Was Young and Old-Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

WORKS INCLUDE:

WRITERLY

Techniques• voice of poem told from a

historical figure or an animal• sometimes in shape of an animal• obvious rhyme scheme• alliteration• easy to follow language• image• narrative poem

Themes• natural world• outdoor setting• animals• Insects• appealing to those who love

being outdoors and adventure

EXAMPLE’S OF SIDMAN’S POEMS

Welcome to the NightTo all of you who crawl and creep,who buzz and chirp and hoot and peep,who wake at dusk and throw off sleep:Welcome to the night.

To you who make the forest sing,who dip and dodge on silent wing,who flutter, hover, clasp, and cling:Welcome to the night!

Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,come smell your way among the trees,come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:Welcome to the night.

The night's a sea of dappled dark, the night's a feast of sound and spark,the night's a wild, enchanted park.Welcome to the night!

GrassI grow in placesothers can’t, where wind is highand water scant. I drink the rain,I eat the sun; before the prairie windsI run. I see, I sprout,I grow, I creep, and in the iceand snow, I sleep. On steppe or veldor pampas dry, beneath the grand,enormous sky, I make my humble,bladed bed. And where there’s level ground,I spread.

CONTENT CONNECTION: Welcome to NightTEKS Connection: §112.12. Science, Grade 1, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011.(b)  Knowledge and skills.(10)  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:*(A)  investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats;

Activity: Complete Graphic OrganizerStudents could complete the following graphic organizer after the teacher reads the poem to the class. She may ask questions along the way to prompt student’s knowledge about nocturnal animals. Students could complete the following organizer with their table. Nocturnal Non-Nocturnal

Examplesofdifferentanimals:

Characteristics: