2013.11.21 note: Richard Scarry's Best Sing Along Mother Goose Video Ever! (week11)

Note

1. Richard Scarry's Best Sing Along Mother Goose Video Ever!  

plot
Huckle Cat is worried because he can't find Lowly Worm and he dreams he is in Mother Goose Land. Huckle Cat meets almost all of Mother Goose's characters. They lead him on a wild "goose" chase, until he actually meets up with Mother Goose. Huckle Cat wakes to find Lowly Worm in the kitchen baking a pie, the whole time he was dreaming away.

the mother goose included in the video
*Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said "What a good boy am I!
*star light, star bright
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
*London Bridge Is Falling Down
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
Build it up with sticks and stones.
Sticks and stones, sticks and stones.
Build it up with sticks and stones.
My fair Lady...
* Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow...
*Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggie a bone,
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
So the poor little doggie had none.
*Little Bo Peep
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them
*Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
*Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet,
Sat on a Tuffet,
Eating her curd and whey.

Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet Away!
*Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty
Sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall.

All the King's horses,
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty
Together again.
(All king's horse and men.→國王的人馬)
*Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory Dickory dock.
*The Three Little Kittens  
The three little kittens
They lost their mittens,
And they began to cry
"Oh mother dear
we sadly fear our mittens we have lost"
"What! Lost your mittens? you naughty kittens!
Then you shall have no pie"
"Meow, meow, meow, meow, we shall have no pie"...
(mitten:手套；a covering for the hand that has a separate part for the thumb only )
*Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;
Where is that boy
Who looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
Oh no, not I,
For if I do
He will surely cry.
*Old King Cole
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
He called for his pipe
And he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three
Ev'ry fiddler had a fiddle
And a very fine fiddle had he
Oh there's none so rare
As can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three
(The King Cole Bar in The Devil Wears Prada)
*Sing a song of sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;

Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie!

theme
decribing/sorting/naming
(for example:
what is he looks like?
how is he looks?
identity of lowly worm→long/thin/green hat/ one leg)

conflict
I wish I can find lowly.

climax
Old king cole retrieves the identity of lowly worm.


2.themes of children's literature
*lost/found
*dream/adventure
*magic/spell
*friendship/leadership

3. kermit

4.Little Miss Muffet
*tuffet(矮凳)
*a bowl of curds and whey
*spider

5.mocky bird:反舌鳥

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Word

1. ale(n.)
: an alcoholic drink that is similar to beer
[noncount] ▪ a glass of ale [count] ▪ The bar serves two very different ales.