five a.m. feet hit the floor
jazz is playin’
dog-walkin’
coffee drinkin’
face kissin’
out the door
seven a.m. kids at my door
Chaucer verse plyin’
sarcasm flyin’
student buy-in
bell is vyin’
our time is high an’
dry and they’re
out the door
all morning long
they’s readin’
they’s writin’
they’s commentin’
“This Pardoner dude
is a real duche bag”
Couldn’a said it better
mysef
full tilt groovin’
I is behoovin’
students improvin’
never stop movin’
three p.m. hittin’ the car
radio’s soundin’
homeward I’s cruisin’
front door is speakin’
and just like that it’s
zu
zu
zu
zu
zu
Game Over!
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Fantastic! So great! Although my Google of “zu zu zu” lyrics turns up some sort of Hindi/Bollywood pop hit, but sure, that works too!
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Haha! Listen to the sound cloud. It’s sound effects.
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Ah, OK! That was even better out loud.
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Thanks – figured it needed to be heard.
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So good.
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Hah! LOVE this take on the prompt….from one teacher to a retired-from-way-back-when teacher. Most especially this stanza
“full tilt groovin’
I is behoovin’
students improvin’
never stop movin’”
You’re really groovin’ here my friend. And my guess is that you get your students groovin’ right with you 🙂 Very very fun…………..game over! 🙂
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This was fun to write. I get my students groovin’ by playing old R&B or jazz in my classroom. Training in good taste 😉
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Clever hip-hoppy word play. I just stand back and admire.
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Thanks, Jane. It comes from hanging around with teenagers all day. Makes ya crazy 😉
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Rather you than me…
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Ha… I loved the reading even better. But I would find it hard with those times… Five am.. that’s murder.
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You got THAT right.
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Nice sound in the audio. I liked the part about the Pardoner dude and the sound of these lines:
“our time is high an’
dry and they’re
out the door”
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Thank you, Frank!
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Choice! You be Atari-ing it up, Jilly! Too funny! Chauce lyrics for sure.
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Haha! Clever response, Charley! Thanks
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Thank you! 🙂
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YESSSSSS. I want to take your class! For sure! Your students are lucky to have you. The energy in this is fantastic.
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Thank you so much, De! We DO have fun – no wonder I come home and crash.
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What rhythm! What rhyme! What beat-off-the-eight-mile, Eminem! Jilly’s in da house and killing it! What a testimony to a day in a teacher’s life!
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Thanks! (I left out the screaming match between the love-gone-wrong pair and that dreadful moment when my coffee was gone. Might have been too much for us all to take. tee hee!)
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😆😆😆
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What a fun, fun read! Teachers will identify, I’m sure. The rest of us will enjoy immensely!
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Thanks, Bev.
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What a day, on the go and full of activities ~ Enjoyed the teacher’s groove read too Jilly ~
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Thank you!
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I was a teacher for many years. I can dig this schedule!! Very Groovy!
Dwight
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Thanks, Dwight! I knew you were just that cool – a teacher. What did you teach?
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I taught elementary school for 29 years. 4th & 5th grade.
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Zowie, Dwight! That is amazingly wonderful!
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:>)
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Gah! I love this. As I read it it felt like your natural jocular inner voice and then the soundcloud proved it. Favorite lines: “face kissin’/out the door” and “homeward I’s cruisin.”
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Thank you, my friend! After I wrote it, I felt like it needed to be slammed.
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What a fun write. Lightened my day quite a bit!
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A unique and playful take, Jilly! Smiles 🙂 🙂
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Thank you!
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Total hip-hop fun!
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Chaucer!!! Still. Oh my goodness. I’m flashing back to my school high school days ☺☺☺. That’s pretty much how it was in my class. Love the rhythm of this. Very real.
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So glad I could take you back to high school! That is what I teach 🙂 And, yes, someone really said that quoted line.
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I could see that☺
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Loved this…it is so groovy, going to carry the sentiment with me all the way to school tomorrow…
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Yay!
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Jilly! Yer rhymin’ is sublimin’!
Rockin’ good!
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🙂
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