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Miss Davies' performance poetry family task - Week 3

Hello everyone!

This is week 3 of Miss Davies' family poetry challenge. If you missed week 1, it's on the blog here:

https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family.html

and week 2 is on the blog here:

https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family_20.html.

If you need some inspiration for performance, Ms Tupman's aunt and uncle had a go at last week's poem, 'The Boneyard Rap': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMP-pN_8Tc&feature=youtu.be.

Remember that this is a challenge for everyone in the family to get involved with learning and performing! Here's some fabulous advice from Michael Rosen about how to make your performance excellent: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/michael-rosen-s-top-tips-for-performing-poems-and-stories/.

Here's this week's poem:

Friends by Benjamin Zephaniah

 Funky monkey in the tree
I like it when you talk to me
What I really like the best
is when you bang upon my chest.


Slippery snake I am your mate
When all others hesitate
I’ll be there right by your side
I am known to slip and slide.


Hop along, croak croak, how ya doing frog?
No one understands our deep dialogue
People may laugh when they see us on the road
We must stick together
Monkey, snake, me, you and toad.



(You can hear Benjamin Zephaniah performing it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBraBx3Br4 and you can see an excellent performance of it here (turn the volume up!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu8CgFxQjKY.)

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