Introduction
Before a child can read, a passion for stories begins with the satisfaction of hearing a tale from the lips. We learn the art of story telling from the early experiences of having been read to as children. Together we share the sense of fantasy, poetry, history, romance, nursery rhymes and other forms of reading delight. Thus chance the door to "art" and its variant forms.
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Single adults or youth may substitute friends for children, for this journey will unmistakably prepare all of us for the joys of parenthood, grand parenting and being a mentor.
Scope or Approach
The purpose of our journey toward becoming a bard is to develop, nurture and promote reading and story telling in the family or an extended family. Our journey begins with the Apprentice program, progresses to Journeyman and culminates in the Bard achievement. Literature "majors" will immediately recognize that our "journeys" are "short courses."
Apprentice
Course article and purpose: Reading, writing and reciting when combined yield a greater retention of understanding of material than by using only one method. Although the total size of the brain is already about 95% of its adult size by the first grade, the new study shows that the gray matter of the brain thickens as the brain cells grow extra connections. This process peaks at about 11 years of age in girls and about 12 years of age in boys, after which excess connections are "pruned," resulting in a thinning of the gray matter. This captivating new looking implies that the early years of adolescence are pivotal years for determining the make-up of the adult brain. (National construct of mental Health).
Apprentice policy Requirements
1. construct a page increasing to your existing web site titled Bard, where the completed requirements for the Apprentice, Journeyman and Bard may be displayed. Upon completion of a required policy of study, please edify your mentor.
2. take 10 nursery rhymes originally published prior to 1950. Read a separate nursery rhyme to a child each day for a duration of ten days. article the nursery rhymes prime on your Bard page as a diary entry. As an entry below the nursery rhyme indicate the hidden importance if any. An example: Old mom Hubbard leaves a cordial feeling toward...both.
3. take a Zane Grey novel to read. The purpose in selecting a "western" novel is four fold: first they are normally not lengthy novels, averaging less then 200 pages; second most of you have probably never read a Zane Grey novel and we wish to broaden your reading enjoyment; third-the style of writing lends itself to reading rapidly, while retaining much of the story line; and last you should time your reading non stop on the first reading. Then on a second reading which will also be timed, rule whether your "speed" has increased. This rehearsal is the first step in self improvement. reason your midpoint reading in words per small for both readings and make a diary entry.
4. Display on your Bard page the following pictures with comment. You and a child at your side with you reading a book to them. A second photograph of you "perched" on or with one of your children's toys such as a bike, wagon or doll house. A third photograph of your favorite "material" thing or object. These pictures will serve as a commitment and a reminder that you have made a pledge to construct yourself and your family to their fullest straight through the joy of regular daily reading. And that you perceive that to recite with a toddler straight through teenager, we must first come to be as one of them, at least for while. The material object picture? Think about it!
5. Pledge to partake in a rapid reading or reading revising course. Now you may begin the Journeyman program with this pledge and satisfactory completion of 1-4.
Journeyman
Course article and purpose:
There is unmistakably a practical value, too, in a knowledge of nursery and classical music. Allusions to them are found in all literature and many sentences are unintelligible to those who do not recognize the nursery rhyme or classical music alluded to. It would be safe, almost, to say that a day does not pass in which whether a rhyme or music which was loved in babyhood and childhood, understood in our youth and treasured in middle life and old age does not come to our attention.
Doctor Benjamin McLane Spock's best selling boo, The common Sense Book of Baby and Chidl Care (1946) sharply redefined the policy of child care after World War Ii. In the subsequent years, approximately of the older "harsher" nursery rhymes gave way to more contemporary "writings" and the pre 1950 publications fell into disuse. Thus our reason for selecting "older" selections in the Apprentice program.
Journeyman policy Requirements
1. Tape a nursery rhyme published after 1950 and send the tape to a grandchild, relative or one whom you are mentoring. Make a diary entry on your Bard page along with criticism and correspondence received.
2. Julia Strudwick Tutwiler women's prison in Alabama is one of the few, which allow mothers to tape stories which are sent to their children. Discuss this fact with a child and make a diary entry on your Bards page.
3. With your child's help, write a poem (substitute if necessary). It is a greater misfortune if a someone grows without an appreciation of poetry when it is so easy a matter to give the young an abiding love for its. A small help now and then, a word of appreciation, a manifestation of satisfaction when reading it and approximately without exertion the child begins to read and love poetry as he does a good prose. article what you and your child have written on your Bards page as a diary entry.
4. The legendary great, the half historical personages that have been for so many centuries been the inspiration of youths of many lands are being translated for the first time. take a up-to-date translation (after 1990) from at least two separate lands or cultures. thought about read the story before hand and then tell the story to your child. Reading it aloud will not be half so effective. take a fable or short story at first. Be sure you have the plot in your mind, made the hero and other characters seem very real to yourself, photograph the scenes vividly in your mind's eye, and are ready to begin. Use your own words, talk naturally, look you children in the eyes and supply many details. An Example, below.
The recital of a bare plot is not an captivating story. For instance: "A boy on his way to school found a yellowbird's nest with four small birds in it," is the recitation of a bare plot. What do you think of the form following?
"Johnny told me an captivating story this morning. As he was advent to school today he saw a small yellowbird fly from the brushes by the angle of Mister Brown/s yard. He parted the leaves and looked in the bush, but for quite a while he could see nothing. At last, however, he spied..."
The latter rendering is maybe an example of an oral tradition, which was translated many years later. And is unmistakably more captivating to a child with the detail, than a bland plot.
5. Make a recording of your rendition. After several days have passed, sit down as a family and play the tape. article your observations and other beneficial information as a diary entry on your Bards page.
Bard
Course article and purpose:
The bard, in antique Celtic times was a someone of great importance. The prominent function was in the praise of his king. He also entertained the assembly, sometimes in eulogy, sometimes in satire. Together with the Druid, Warrior and Silversmith, he represents the image of the antique Celt.
In other lands and cultures, the Bard was a repository of histories, stories, legends, songs and poetry of his people. whether the Bard traveled, he was honored and given inevitable polite impunity. Before the invention of the printing press, books and scribes were very high-priced and recently news traveled very gently and inaccurately. The Bard, due to this study in oral tradition, could be relied upon to know the latest news from his court, whether crops had failed to the south, or which roads were safe to travel. For some villages and towns, the Bard was the only reliable source of information.
Caring parents, grand parents and mentors have taken the role of Bard in our contemporary "electronic industry oriented" society in the age of the "Communication Revolution."
Bard policy Requirements
Complete any five of the following.
1. Discuss with your family a local issue. As a family compose, gift and have published a "Letter to the Editor" of your local newspaper.
2. Attend a show and tell session with a child.
3. partake in a school "careers day" or similar activity.
4. Attend a "rally", Pta meeting or seminar group with your family.
5. Attend a piano or dance recital and serve on a committee such as food or program with you family.
6. As a family construct a short speech which you would give to an imaginary National convention of a national party espousing a cherished public cause in which you have firm convictions.
7. partake in a recycling program with your family and discuss the reasons for your participation.
8. Eat one meal together as a family for at least one week. Discuss what happened after the week.
9. Abstain from watching television for one week and whether read together as a family or listen to a story time on radio. Discuss what happened after the week.
10. Attend two "cultural events" in your society of your children's choice.
Complete one of the following.
1. Join a Toastmasters club or enter into a formal deliberate upon at the society or college level.
2. Unblemished a self enrichment program of your choice.
3. construct and issue a "Book That Talks" for use by your local library.
Now that your have completed all of the requirements for Bard, you have but one task to complete, which is a celebration in the tradition of King Arthur in which chivalry, merriment and joy development reined supreme.
Complete one of the following and distribute by any means other than spamming to a peer group in which you are a member.
1. A poem, an ode, or ballad which you have composed with your family as the central theme.
2. An primary aggregate in midi format accompanied with lyrics
3. Or personally enroll 5 participants in the journey which you just completed and serve as their mentor.
Bard (Or To become A Bard)
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