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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- rhythm: the pattern and speed of “beats”
- - In English, the beats are stressed words and syllables
- p. 59 - listen and repeat these words and phrases that have the same stress patterns.
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- - English is a stress-timed language. This means there’s usually about the same amount of time between each stressed syllable.
- p. 60 exercise 2 - Repeat these phrases. Notice that the timing stays the same.
- open up
- open it up
- opening it up
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- exercise 3 - Nursery rhymes (children’s rhymes) have especially strong rhythm patterns.
- Mark the stressed syllables and write the number of strong beats in each line.
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- Look at the “Disobedience” poem. The lines alternate between 4 and 3 “beats”. With your partner, find and mark the stressed syllables.
- (In the rhythm of the poem, lines with only three beats have a one-beat pause after them.)
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- There are different ways this is sometime arranged on the page:
- James James
- Morrison Morrison
- Weatherby George DuPree
- Took great
- Care of his Mother,
- Though he was only three.
- James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree
- Took great care of his mother, though he was only three.
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- Homework: practice the rhythm and pronunciation of this poem. Tomorrow we will try as a class to say it together at about 120 bpm
- https://www.google.com/search?q=metronome
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