Rap point 2
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How has The Shaggy Gully Times’ writer and illustrator made a connection with local newspapers?
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How has the author, Jackie French, used ordinary words in innovative ways to create humour?
Use the Programming and planning activities and Rap sheets to help you respond to Rap point 2. Remember, you have two weeks to complete this rap point, and you may like to break up your rap responses and stagger the posts.
Go to the Leave a reply at the bottom of this page to post your response. You will need to log in, post a response and wait for moderation. Your class might wish to respond to the comments from other rappers via the rap blog. Have you checked out the wiki yet?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Mothball Wombat, the proud editor of The Shaggy Gully Times, needs some help. Some readers have complimented Mothball on his use of puns and his humorous style of reporting. Unfortunately, Mothball takes his work seriously and is surprised by these comments. He hasn’t noticed any funny sayings! Perhaps you can help by going to the Beijing Olympics & Book Week 2008 wiki page! This is a bonus activity that your rap group can try out after posting your response to Rap point 2. Why not use Rap sheet 4 to help you with this activity?
By the way, every rap group can have a turn adding their information to the wiki. You will need a secret password to access the wiki. The secret password is shaggy1. Shhh – don’t tell anyone!
Enjoy reading The Shaggy Gully Times, and then enjoy reading it again and again.
I look forward to reading your responses.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 20th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi from Normorappers,
The Shaggy Gully Times is the best! We found it extremely funny and the next time we write to the blog we’ll try and write some puns of our own.
The writer and illustrator have made a connection to local papers by:
* Having a similar layout and content to real local newspapers
* Writing articles and including pictures about events and people in a local area just like our local newspapers
* Advertising for local businesses.
Cya,
Normorappers
August 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hi Nowrarappers,
You have made the connections to local newspapers. Isn’t it wonderful how Bruce Whatley’s illustrations support each piece of writing and add to the humour? I look forward to reading your puns.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hi rappers,
Tammy the Tortoise and 3H Maths of Penrith PS here!
Today we had lots of fun reading “The Shaggy Gully Times” and comparing it to one of our local newspapers, the “Penrith City Star”. Here in Penrith we are lucky to have lots of free local papers: the “Star”, the “Penrith Press” (twice a week) and “The Western Week-ender”.
Like “The Shaggy Gully Times”, the “Star” has a large heading (banner) at the top. The name “Star” is always printed in bright blue ink so that people don’t mix it up with the “Press” (red). There are ads along the bottom of most pages, five columns of text, and a row of little index pictures to tell you about important pages.
This week, the “Star” has a funny and clever headline:
Big cats bite Dogs
It sounds like some pet dogs and cats in Penrith were having a fight but the photo shows us that the Penrith Panthers NRL team was thrashing the Bulldogs at CUA Stadium on Saturday night! The score was 52-16! Panthers’ champion winger, Luke Rooney, used to be our school captain, so we were very proud of him for scoring three tries set up by Michael Jennings.
We liked the big cat jokes in “The Shaggy Gully Times”, too. The lions in Mr Nasty’s Zoo were lyin’ around… and one lion’s name was Rory. (Roary – get it?)
From Tammy and 3H Maths @ Penrith PS
August 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hello rappers,
We are Harry the Hairy Bunjee Spider and 3H Maths of Penrith PS.
Today we read “The Shaggy Gully Times” and compared it to the “Penrith City Star”. We looked at the banner at the top, and all the ads inside. The copy of the “Star” we looked at was from a few weeks ago and it had a photo of a man with an Indian palm squirrel on his head. The headline says:
Nuts about squirrels
Angela in our class is nuts about swimming. Matthew is nuts about gymnastics. Arona is nuts about leading the dragon in our assembly item last Friday. But the man at Berkshire Park Bird Farm, in the “Star”, is nuts about squirrels because squirrels like nuts!
We laughed about the teacher in “The Shaggy Gully Times”, whose name was Baaabaaraa Ewe. We think she must be a sheep. She is probably related to the optometrist who has the ad on page 6 because the name is I.C. Ewe. (”I see you” – very funny!)
From Hairy Harry and 3H Maths @ Penrith PS
August 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Hello from MPS.
The Shaggy Gully Times is similar to a newspaper in the way that they both have a:
* Title
* A heading with an article on it
* They both have pictures and little local ads
* They both have a content and different articles
* And they both have the same layout.
Bruce Whatley is a fabulous illustrator who has detailed pictures and catches the reader’s attention by making his pictures funny and also relevant to the content.
Bye for now.
Rohan and Bjorn – 6G
Mowbray PS
August 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
G’day everyone,
Selby the talking dog here, along with 4W at Penrith PS.
Today Mr McLean, our teacher librarian, read us some more of The Shaggy Gully Times. We liked the headline of the article, Shaggy Gully abuzz at royal visit because it’s about a queen bee and her loyal swarm, who are making themselves into a crown. The bees are abuzz because they are excited – and bees always buzz.
We compared the articles, ads and layout in The Shaggy Gully Times to some copies of the Penrith City Star. We wanted to find a good pun (word joke) in the headline but the issue we chose said:
Glenmore gridlock
This headline has alliteration (initial letters all the same), a bit like Gunna the Graffiti Goanna… on page 13 of The Shaggy Gully Times.
We were just finishing up our draft of this rap response when we noticed the back page (Sport section) of 3H’s newspaper. The headline said: What a dog act! It was an article about Bulldogs’ Sonny Bill Williams letting his team down by going to France to play rugby union.
Then we noticed the other paper’s Sport section, which said:
Oarsome effort
This was the best pun. Naeem was laughing because he knew it should have said “Awesome”. The journalist wrote “Oarsome” because it was an article about a local Penrith area slalom kayaker, Jacqui Lawrence, who has gone to the Olympic Games. An “oar” is another word for a kayak paddle.
From Selby and 4W, Penrith PS
August 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hi everyone,
This is Nian the Chinese dragon and 4/5M with the first part of our response to Rap point 2.
We read more of The Shaggy Gully Times and compared parts of the book with real local newspapers. We liked the following clever headlines in the real papers:
* Watch your wallet (Alliteration in “Penrith Press”)
* Karate queen (Alliteration in “The Western Week-ender”)
* Glenmore Park learns to chomp (Glenmore Park PS gets a breakfast program, “Penrith Press”)
* Tinytantic’s epic adventure (A sailing boat named after the famous ocean liner, “Titanic” – but there was an accidental spelling mistake in the headline because the little boat’s name is “Tinytanic” – in “Penrith Press”)
* What a bright spark (Shehzil guessed correctly that the man with the clever ideas was an electrician! – “Penrith Press”).
From Nian and 4/5M, Penrith PS
August 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
3H, 4W and 4/5M penrithrappers have certainly found many similarities between The Shaggy Gully Times and their local newspapers. I wonder if Selby would be able to investigate the name of the Penrith City Star’s editor. Perhaps Mothball has moved!
Well spotted rappers.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hello again,
It’s Ella, Christine and Jessica. 5S have been reading The Shaggy Gully Times during library times. Jackie French has written The Shaggy Gully Times in newspaper layout. The layout is nearly the same apart the spelling errors. She has chosen the newspaper to be written by animals. The book is very humorous with animal jokes. The animals have been formed to act like humans, like writing stories and talking.
Caio, TaTa, Goodbye, we will see you again later.
Mowbray Public School.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Greetings from Phoenix and 3DV Maths,
We are enjoying “The Shaggy Gully Times” and all of Jackie French’s puns.
We laughed about Em Emu swallowing the zoo keys during her excursion, and then burping them back out. You don’t get the whole story unless you also read the article about the zoo break-out.
We looked at many similarities and differences with local Penrith newspapers. Mr McLean gave us some homework: to look for some puns in the headlines of this week’s papers when they arrive in our front yards.
From Phoenix and 3DV Maths.
Penrith PS
August 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Hi everyone,
We enjoyed hearing part of the “The Shaggy Gully Times” but haven’t heard all of it yet.
The paper used in the book “Shaggy Gully Times” is crinkly like a newspaper. The spelling errors make it amusing. The book has the same layout as the local newspapers. It even includes advertising for businesses. We liked the fact that it has a price of 3 carrots!!!!
Jackie French has been clever by changing the spelling to make amusing puns about different events and characters in Shaggy Gully.
The characters seemed to come to life and the intertwined series of events made the characters seem silly.
The front cover says words and pictures rather than author and illustrator, as if they are part of the action.
Bye for now,
palmerspirates
Palmers Island PS
August 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Greetings from Piplup and 3DV Maths,
“The Shaggy Gully Times” by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley is very funny.
We liked the ads – the cow who runs a moooooooving company, Granny Galah the egg-sitter (really an egg-eating goanna!) and Dr I.C. Ewe the optometrist.
Jeremy noticed a little article on the back of the “Penrith City Star” about Panthers’ NRL player, Luke Priddis, going over to St George-Illawarra next season. The article didn’t have a pun in the headline (“Farewell Luke”), but we thought it should say…
“LUKE IS DRAGON OVER TO ST GEORGE!”
From Piplup and 3DV Maths,
Penrith PS
August 27th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Hello rappers,
Your comments about the connections made by The Shaggy Gully Times with local newspapers are varied, observant and thoughtful. The puns are obvious links but Palmerspirates have made excellent comments. They wrote:
The front cover says words and pictures rather than author and illustrator, as if they are part of the action. and The paper used … is crinkly like a newspaper.
3DV Maths Penrithrappers also made an astute comment about one article in the newspaper impacting on the meaning in another. They wrote:
You don’t get the whole story unless you also read the article about the zoo break-out.
After reading your responses, I can’t wait to get back to the book. Each time I read it, I find new information, extra meaning and more connections.
Keep the responses flowing. It’s wonderful to have so many engaged readers with different opinions participating in the rap and blog.
Cheers,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Hello and good afternoon people and fellow students,
This is Tammy the Tortoise and 3H Maths reporting.
Today we looked at page 27 of “The Shaggy Gully Times”. This is the Sport section. We tried to guess what the first article, “Kiwis versus Wallabies in Match of the Year”, would be about.
We remembered that kiwis might be rubgy union players from New Zealand, or small birds from New Zealand, or shoe polish. We also remembered that wallabies might be small animals from Australia that look like kangaroos, or Aussie football players. The picture of the wallaby looked like he was doing the same action as Josephine in “Josephine loves to dance” by Jackie French.
We found out that the kiwis in the article were feathered. We found out that the character Leaping Lewis in the article was really Josephine wearing a false moustache!
Tammy the Tortoise and 3H Maths
Penrith PS
August 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hello Rappers,
We had trouble logging on again this morning and our class became a little restless ’cause each time we try to write a comment it seems to play up!
Our class thought that The Shaggy Gully Times (TSGT) has a front page which is more animated and cartoon like with unrealistic pictures and no stories as compared to The Hills Shire Times (THST) which had real photos, stories/articles and advertisements but no crest on the front page. We liked the comment about how the paper looks like real newspaper because of its crushed up look.
Our class loved the cost of TSGT whereas our newspaper costs 80c. (We really get it free because they throw it onto your front yard every Wednesday!) We thought the price of 3 carrots was well aimed at the “animal” community of Shaggy Gully and it is very funny as well.
We felt that Jackie French is very creative in her writing and the way she brought humor into the use of the “corrections” – they were funny and a little confusing at times! Bruce Whatley’s illustrations are very interesting and detailed also.
We thought the book ws very funny, confusing (in a funny way) and cool because of the mistakes and the way they made their corrections on their “published” copy. We are not allowed to do that in class!
Roberta said it is different to other books because it is not a story and seems to be very different to other books.
Hopefully we won’t have trouble logging on next week so we can be more focused.
3456E
John Palmer Public School
The Ponds
August 27th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hello rappers,
Harry the hairy bungee spider and 3H Maths here.
We read page 10 of “The Shaggy Gully Times” today. We tried to guess what the three articles would be about.
1. “Lyrebird seeks new home”: Tori recognised the lyrebird’s lyre (harp) shaped tail from Mr McLean’s maths class two years ago, when we were talking about Australian coins. The lyrebird is on the Australian ten cent coin!
2. “Be careful where you drip those droppings!”: Mitchell guessed that an animal might be responsible for the big dropping on the man’s hat. Jacob thinks it might have been an elephant. (Smelliephant?)
3. Caleb thought that whoever was complaining about “Eggs lost!” might have had their eggs stolen by Granny Galah (Goanna), whose ad for egg-sitting was on page 13.
How correct were our predictions?
1. Rory the lion was pretending to be a lyrebird. Rory was lying that he was a lyrebird.
2. Elephants should never fly in an aeroplane.
3. Charlie Crocodile lost his eggs but if he cried “crocodile tears” maybe he wasn’t really very upset about losing the eggs. Arona knows that “crocodile tears” are fake tears. Children and babies cry “crocodile tears” when they want to get their own way.
From Hairy Harry and 3H Maths at Penrith PS.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Welcome everybody,
This is Emily and Rachel from Mowbray Public School. We are in 3/4SG. We love the book ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’ and we really like the way Jackie French set it out to look like a newspaper. It is also great how Jackie makes punny mistakes on purpose. It’s a great book and everybody loves it, Jackie should be proud.
We love the way the pictures catch your eyes and attention. Bruce Whatley is also very clever and creative.
We’ll be back soon.
Emily and Rachel – 3.4SG
August 27th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Yo peeps!
Selby and 4W rappers here! Today we predicted the contents of the latest “Penrith Press” newspaper.
We thought it would contain:
Words: 12 out of 12 people
Olympics Closing Ceremony: 8
Columns: 12
Red banner heading of newspaper name: 8
Large picture on the front: 12
Jokes in the headlines: 10
Stephanie Rice and her ex-boyfriend: 4
Ads: 12
Letters from people of Penrith area: 3
Local Penrith news: 12
TV Guide: 10.
We were right about:
Words, Columns, Red banner heading of newspaper name, Large picture on the front, Jokes in the headlines (such as “Beauty and a black sheep” – about a local World War II veteran and his wife – and a very clever one, “Tune in for ‘hot’ goods” – about a robbery of electrical goods from a nearby Dick Smith store), many newspaper ads for local businesses, Letters from people of the Penrith area, and lots and lots of local Penrith news.
But…
Olympics Closing Ceremony: (no, not local enough)
Stephanie Rice and her ex-boyfriend: (no, but maybe if she lived in Penrith)
TV Guide: (no, not until the weekend).
There were many ads for presents to buy Dads for Father’s Day, and some ads for health studios and Little Athletics, because people might be feeling inspired to get fit by the Olympic Games. No more Couch Potatoes!
From Selby and 4W rappers
Penrith PS
August 28th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hi Selby and the 4W rappers from Penrith PS,
Your predictions about the contents in your local newspaper were almost correct. It makes sense that local newspapers focus on LOCAL events and advertising.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Hello rappers,
JPPSeniors told us that they liked the way Jackie French brought humour into the corrections and that, at times, this can add to the confusion. I agree. However, the editor’s comments can also provide clues for the reader. Read the comments on page 27 and then study the illustration.
3H Maths Penrithrappers used many clues to work out that the featured wallaby is actually Josephine, the main character in another book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. Well done. The other 3H Maths group have shared some excellent observations and knowledge as well. Just imagine hiring an egg eating goanna to ‘eggsit’. I’m sure there would be some crocodile tears from the so called Granny Galah.
Thank you for your perseverance when internet connection problems made posting replies difficult. You have shown the never give up Olympic spirit.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hi Mrs Keane,
3DV was here for their library lesson this morning. We were looking at the picture book, “Santa’s Aussie holiday” by Maria Farrer & Anna Walker. This was the Crichton Award gold medal-winner, the award the Victorian CBC gives to a first-time illustrator.
There was great excitement today when someone noticed that, when Santa was leaving Australia at the end, his new surfboard riding crocodile friend was shedding…
… crocodile tears!
Except, perhaps, they were genuine tears after such a fun holiday.
Best wishes,
Mr McLean @ Penrith PS
August 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Hello Friends!
The Shaggy Gully Times‘ writer and illustrator have made a connection to local newspapers by setting the book out like a newspaper by writing articles in columns and making sure that the pictures fit into the columns. The writer has written as though they are reporting on stories and inside the book you can find lots of advertisements, just like in a local newspaper.
Jackie French has made the story funny by making lots of mistakes with her words, like when she spelt the word zoo as poo. When she plays around with the words they become puns.
We think that by using puns Jackie French has made the book a lot punnier, wait we mean funnier!
laterz
thefullysickids
3M & 3H Bkaxcell Street PS
August 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
G’day rappers from Phil the frog and SCHC.
We compared the front pages of “The Penrith Press” and “The Shaggy Gully Times”.
Both have a large heading on the top with the name of the paper.
“The Penrith Press” costs 80 cents and people buy it (or it is free on their front lawn if they live in Penrith). “The Shaggy Gully Times” costs three carrots because the editor loves carrots.
“The Penrith Press” has a large colour picture of local sportswoman “Flying higher” (on a snowboard) and “The Shaggy Gully Times” has the animal characters flying an aeroplane to rescue zoo animals.
Inside, both “The Penrith Press” and “The Shaggy Gully Times” have lots of ads in little rectangles at the bottom of most pages.
From Phil the frog and SCHC @ Penrith PS
August 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hello rapsters
The book uses a similar layout and content as a normal newspaper such as…
Horoscopes, sports, puzzles, births, deaths and marriages, classifieds and more. The illustrator has also made the pages look like real newspaper pages, the ads look like real ads and the pictures look realistic like photos.
Jackie French has used ordinary words in funny ways by using funny spelling mistakes that still make sense. She also used rhyming words and by putting words that sound the same like “Who dung it?” and “who done it?” she has created funny headlines.
Bye for now
5/6M LHICS
August 28th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hi everyone,
Nian the Chinese dragon and 4/5M did some predicting about the contents of Tuesday’s “The Penrith Press”.
We guessed it would contain:
News about changes to the local shopping centre (9 out of 10 people)
News about local sporting events (9 people)
Specials for fruit this week (5 people)
Jobs available – classified ads (10 people)
An article about the Olympians arriving home (7 people)
Local soccer results (2 people)
How many gold medals Australian Olympians won (2 people)
Keeping prices low in Penrith (4 people)
Stephanie Rice and the Closing Ceremony (6 people)
We guessed correctly about:
News about changes to the local shopping centre (one of us had already seen the front page headline), News about local sporting events, an article about the local Olympians arriving home (“16 days of awe” on the back page), Jobs available (classified ads, just like in “The Shaggy Gully Times” – there were “HEAPS!”), and lots of large Father’s Day ads about local businesses helping to keep prices low in Penrith.
Surprisingly, there were no ads about special prices for fruit this week – but there was a photo of yummy tropical fruit in an ad about the $12.95 “Exquisite Breakfast” at Nepean Waterside Restaurant.
There were no local soccer results, but lots of other football news and photos.
There was nothing about Stephanie Rice and the Closing Ceremony, but the article called “Never too old for gold” was about sporting celebrations at a local aged care home. The elderly people were wearing green and gold leis as they feasted on Chinese snacks while they played ten pin bowling, quoits, a trivia quiz, golf and shotput.
From
Nian the Chinese dragon and 4/5M at Penrith PS
August 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hi everyone,
4/3B have been enjoying reading The Shaggy Gully Times – we love it!
We have been comparing it to our local newspaper, The Manly Daily. We found that they had many things in common, like similar sections (eg. Sports, headline news, weather). We also found that the articles were in a similar order, like sport at the back and headline news at the front. They both also had advertisements for local businesses.
Like some of the other schools have found, The Manly Daily also uses similar language to The Shaggy Gully Times in their headlines. Our newspaper had a headline “Wilmot Will Wait” which uses alliteration. We also found headlines that used rhyming such as “Hard Work Keeping Hubble From Trouble”. In The Shaggy Gully Times they have a headline which also rhymes: “Bride Wears White, Groom Gets Fright”. All of these are used to help catch the reader’s attention.
We talked about how Jackie French uses puns to add humour to ordinary words. We particularly liked the new books in The Shaggy Gully Times library section, so we wrote some of our own:
* Lions are Vicious by Pat Karefully
* Where’s Sarah? by Tom Ater
* Lightning Bolt by C. A. Flash
* Winter’s Nearly Here by Jack Frost
* I like Flowers by Daphne Dill
* Lonely Home by M. T. Hutt
* Hurricane by Rufus Blownoff
* Meeting Disaster by T. Spilt
* Going on a Car Trip by R. Wetheryet
* Street Fighting by R. U. Hert
* Dracula has Fifteen Cats by Count Demm
* How to Grow Flowers by Fran Gipani
* Animals Are Big by Jerry Affe
* My Teeth Hurt by Dan Tist
* Eat Vegetables by Brock Olea
* Colours by B. Lue
Hope you like them.
Bye for now from 4/3B, Manly West PS
August 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hi Rappers,
The Fully sick kids from Blaxcell Street observed that the layout of the book is in columns, just like a newspaper. Well dung – oops, I mean well done. The Barrelriders at Lord Howe Island also made this connection and noticed other similarities. The horoscopes are clever. 4/3B from Manly West PS have added some wonderful titles to the library section. I think these have the makings of a short story collection.
Well done everyone.
Rap point 3 is coming soon.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
September 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hi everybody
1. The Shaggy Gully Times uses similar symbols and banners as a normal newspaper. It is arranged in different sections like TV guide, games, social pages, sport, police report, classifieds and ads at the bottom of pages. It has letters to the editor and Tiffany Treetop, stop press, all the local news and the births, deaths and marriages, just like a local paper. The pictures are made to look like photos to go with the stories and all the stories are laid out like in a newspaper.
2. Using animal names that sound like another word to still tell the story but sound funny e.g. mouse code instead of morse code, pooetry instead of poetry, “Boiled again” instead of “Foiled again” and the story is about eggs.
The editors comments in red also make us laugh but can help explain some of the jokes in the stories as well.
In our little local paper, The Signal, there are some good examples of how papers twist words to make funny or interesting headlines. ‘Anthony and Emily Tie the Knot’ is a story about a local boat operator’s recent wedding and boat drivers are always tying knots. ‘Bridal Creeper – An Unwanted WEEDING Guest’ is a story about a weed causing problems on the island and they use the word weeding to sound like wedding because the weed’s name is bridal creeper.
Bye for now
3/4M LHICS
September 1st, 2008 at 9:33 am
6E from Nowra Primary say:
“sup!”
The connections between the local newspaper and The Shaggy Gully Times were:
advertisements, huge headlines, writing in columns, had a price, puzzle pages, sport article, pictures, front page headline, ‘horror’ scopes.
The author used ‘puns’ to make the words funny.
We think the book is cool so far and clever, phunny and we can’t wait to read the rest of it!
Peace out! 6E Nowra PS
September 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am
3R found these things that were similar between the local newspaper and The Shaggy Gully Times:
Both have a crest.
Advertisements
A TV guide
Classifieds
Paper contents at the front
Banners
Sport
Layout of the paper the same.
Headlines.
The humour the author used was ‘Puns’. Examples are:
Hide and Squeak
Mouse to Mouse resuscitation
Mouse Code
Homonyms eg Lyin’ of lion
Camels humps (being humpy or grumpy)
Eaten alive – beaten alive.
3R thinks this book is punny!
Nowra PS
September 1st, 2008 at 11:44 am
3W from Nowra Public remember the similarities between the local paper and The Shaggy Gully Times. Here are some of them:
Headings, contents page, TV guide, advertisements, games page, price, photographs, jobs, sports section, main article on front page with a picture.
The way the author used humour with words is called – puns. Some examples are: the bears are grizzly, lions lyin’ around, syllables stretched, I.C. Ewe, camels with the hump, mouse code, hide and squeak, mouse to mouse resuscitation.
C EWE all l8r….
3W from Nowra Public
September 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hi Bloggers,
* Bruce Whatley has set out SGT just like a newspaper with its different sections.
* The actual pages of the book have the appearance of newspaper paper.
* Bruce has many great pictures to match the stories and the animals have human
disguises.
* Jackie’s stories match with the sections of a newspaper (incl. ads).
We found these punny headings in our local paper -
“The Suffering of an Olympic Couch Potato”
“Fresh take on Business” (food business)
“Floored by the Economy” (a tiling company going out of business)
“Fair to Medalling” (about local Olympians’ performances)
“Greens with Envy” (top golfing greens).
Jackie’s puns made fun of people.
She’s changed human words to animal words e.g.”you” to “ewe”.
She’s crossed out letters and added letters e.g. “animals are stuck in tragic z/poo.
Human money has been changed to ‘carrotcy’ (currency).
Bye from Glenhavensprinters
September 1st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
3V from Nowra Public, thinks The Shaggy Gully Times is very punny! We can’t wait to read some more and learn some more jokes with puns.
Similarities are:
pictures, price, writing in columns, advertisements, articles about problems in the community, sports section, entertainment, horoscope (horror scope), TV guide, games page.
We have learned that ‘puns’ are using words to mean two different things and this makes it punny!
Goo – instead of Zoo.
Poo – instead of zoo.
Horror scope – instead of horoscope
I C Ewe – instead of I see you.
Bears were grizzly.
Camels had the hump
Lions lyin’ around.
Julius Cheeser
Hide and Squeak.
From 3V Nowra PS
September 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
6S from Nowra Public School
Things we noticed that were the same were:
Headlines, price, advertisements, look of the paper (background), letter to the editor (litters to the idioter), community news (soxcial pages), coffee cup stains, puzzle pages, horoscopes (horror scopes), library news, missing persons (have you seen these animals), wedding funeral and birth notices (match, hatch & dispatch).
The author used ‘puns’ to make the words punny!
Some examples of puns used in The Shaggy Gully Times are: Let us flea (free), Mouse code (morse), mouse to mouse (mouth to mouth) resuscitation, elephant is learning to fly, author of book “Eaten Alive” – Amos Quito, author of “Sillier and Sillier” – Ding Bat, author of book “Rock Climbing” – Ken I Doit.
C ewe all l8r, hope you don’t get the hump waiting for our next response.
C U gator, had a snapping time!
6S
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Hi fellow rappers,
We looked at our local newspaper, ‘The Manly Daily’, and compared it with ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’. We especially enjoyed the Horror Scopes (horoscopes). We looked at the star signs for the students in our class and laughed at some of the puns, for example “Wallabies: don’t leap to conclusions!”
We thought that Match, Hatch and Dispatch was a clever way to say Marriages, Births and Deaths.
Ciao….
4C Manly Village Public School
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Hi rappers,
Yes 3V Nowrarappers – puns are using words that mean two different things. Ewe are clever!
3R Nowrarappers – I wonder how you would send an SOS in Mouse Code. Perhaps it stands for Squeak Oh Squeak.
3/4M at Lord Howe – the Bridal Creeper – an Unwanted WEEDING Guest is a wonderful title. I’m sure Jackie French would love it.
Glenhavensprinters – your local paper also has some clever titles. I especially like Floored by the economy and Fair to Medalling.
I agree 4C Manly Village Olympians, Match, Hatch and Dispatch is extremely witty.
C Ewe l8r 6S from Nowra PS. I’m off to read my favourite book, A home for a wombat by A. Hole.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
September 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Hello fellow rappers
This is the 3R Olympians here. We really enjoyed looking at one of our local newspapers, The Glebe, and comparing it to The Shaggy Gully Times. We also made a comparison to larger newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Telegraph to see what the differences were.
The Shaggy Gully Times includes many of the features of a local newspaper such as: local news of local people (not just famous people); advertisements for local businesses; ‘horrorscopes’; classifieds and the layout of the newspaper.
We looked at other newspapers for puns that created humour in the same way that Jackie French did. We discovered that there are so many ways that the newspapers play with words. At the time the most common pun was ‘A Bolt of Lightning’ when reporting about Usain Bolt’s Olympic performances.
We are really enjoying The Shaggy Gully Times. We love finding all the visual clues that the illustrator has included.
From the 3R Olympians
September 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Jackie French
We think Jackie French is creative, clever and very punny with her words.
She uses puns all the time e.g. mouse code for Morse code. She changes the spelling to make things funny e.g. bee beautifully beehived.
She uses words that sound like other words but have a different meaning, for example fowl and foul. These are called homophones.
She uses metaphors like ‘Bubble and squeak’ for the mouse. We noticed she uses pictures in a clever way too, for example the coffee stain that looks like glasses on the advertisement for the optometrist.
From Colyton Rappers 4/5D
September 10th, 2008 at 10:23 am
How has the writer and illustrator made a connection with the local newspapers?
They have set it out like a normal newspaper and they have used advertising. They also use bold headings and pictures.
How has the author Jackie French used ordinary words in innovative ways to create humour?
Yes, for example, there’s a sentence in the shaggy gully times that says animals trapped in horrid poo. But poo is supposed to be zoo and how to make bum leaves but bum is supposed to be gum.
Parkview PS rappers