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Introduction: Read "Crazy Hair Day" by Barney Saltzberg. The book is about a boy, Stanley who goes to school with a very crazy hair style thinking it was "crazy hair day" at school (the day before had been "pajama day". Well it wasn't the right day and he was the only one who came to school with a crazy hair style. Discuss the book with your students. Talk about how embarrassed Stanley must have been to be the only one in school who was wearing a crazy hair style. Talk about the importance of "hair"- Does it matter how you wear your hair to school. Ask students how important it is for them and take a tally. Tell the students that hair has always been a topic of concern and it has even been the topic of some superstitions.Talk about supersitions- ask the students if superstitions are true or false. Take a tally. Then read the following poem.
Hair
by Janet S. Wong
Eat the crust of fresh baked bread
for curly hair upon your head--
brush, don't comb, your hair at night,
and you won't hear a nasty fight--
Tuesday is your haircut day
if you want you luck to stay---
stand bareheaded in the rain
to cure a baldness in the brain.
Wong, Janet S. Knock on wood: poems about superstitions. Simon& Schuster: New York. 2003.
Extension: Talk about superstitions and go over each segment of the poem to discuss each superstition about "hair". Ask students for more examples of superstitions. Have students work in pairs to create their own superstition about hair. |
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