my brother built a robot
Title: My Brother Built a Robot
Author: Jack Prelutsky Illustrator: James Stevenson Genre/Category: Poetry Format: Poem Distinctive Crafting: Is a fun poem with distinctive rhyming patterns. Background Demands: Poetry structure, Rhyming patterns Instructional Activities in Reading/Writing and/or Social Studies: Have students break down the rhyming pattern of this poem. Have student read this poem in a "poem-a-thon" there must be a signature for each person this poem is read to. |
My Brother Built a Robot
by Jack Prelutsky My brother built a robot that does not exactly work, as soon as it was finished, it began to go berserk, its eyes grew incandescent and its nose appeared to gleam, it bellowed unbenignly and its ears emitted steam. My brother built that robot to help us clean our room, instead, it ate the dust pan and attacked us with the broom, it pulled apart our pillows, it disheveled both our beds, it took a box of crayons and it doodled on our heads. That robot seemed relentless as it tied our socks in knots, then clunked into the kitchen and dismantled pans and pots, the thing was not behaving in the fashion we had planned. it clanked into the bathroom and it filled the tub with sand. We tried to disconnect it, but it was to no avail, it picked us up and dropped us in an empty garbage pail, we cannot stop that robot, for we’re stymied by one hitch…. my brother didn’t bother to equip it with a switch. |