Into the Woods

The songs and writing were well-done.  I could use excerpts from the Prologue song to use in my Poetry Unit with my fourth graders...

The way is clear,
The light is good,
I have no fear,
Nor no one should.
The woods are just trees,
The trees are just wood.
I sort of hate to ask it,
But do you have a basket?

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It got me thinking, about the mile-wide, inch-deep nature of our nations Educational pacing guides and public school expectations.  Why do all kids need to write poems?  Why do they need to recognize forms of poems?  Isn't it enough to appreciate being around it in their culture, such as the wit in the songs from this movie?  In their leather, reclining seats in the cineplex?  I am going to show the excerpts from these lyrics just like I did with Frozen last year.  It is more engaging.



Interpreting standards these days has got me like...

 

 

 

In every kid's movie or play, I enjoy seeing and connecting to the pieces for adults.  This part of the Prologue fits what people my age in early adulthood and early marriage and complex relationships need to learn:

The spell is on my house.
Only I can lift the spell,
The spell is on my house.

[BAKER'S WIFE]
No, no, the spell is on our house.
We must lift the spell.

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The baker feels guilty for bringing that into the marriage so he feels it's his burden to take care of.  The wife insists that since they are married, they will address it as a team.  This is something I am learning too. 

Frozen's song "fixer upper" is about relationships too, the song is written for adults.

Bulda: We're not sayin' you can change him,
'Cause people don't really change. (Girl Trolls: Ahh Ahhh)
We're only saying that love's a force
That's powerful and strange.
People make bad choices if they're mad,
Or scared, or stressed.
Throw a little love their way.

Female Trolls: Throw a little love their way.

Bulda and Female Trolls: And you'll bring out their best.

All Trolls: True love brings out the best!
Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper,
That's what it's all about!

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My therapist helps me know that when people in love take it out on each other in relationships it is because that person is "the safest one in the room to do so."  The timing of this movie with my personal relationship was very serrendipitous.