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Sick Poem

The poem describes a young girl named Peggy Ann McKay telling her mother all the ailments she claims to have to avoid going to school. She lists numerous illnesses and injuries such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, a sore throat, a broken leg, and more. However, at the end it is revealed that it is actually Saturday, so there was no school for her to avoid in the first place.

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Sick Poem

The poem describes a young girl named Peggy Ann McKay telling her mother all the ailments she claims to have to avoid going to school. She lists numerous illnesses and injuries such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, a sore throat, a broken leg, and more. However, at the end it is revealed that it is actually Saturday, so there was no school for her to avoid in the first place.

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Sick

By Shel Silverstein
“I cannot go to school today,”
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet,my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And there’s one more. -- that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut– my eyes are blue –
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left leg is broke—
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button’s caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained.
My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up in my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is – what?
What’s that? What’s that you say?
You say today is… Saturday?
G’bye, I’m going out to play!”
Question Time…
Question
Peggy Ann tells so many sicknesses in the
morning to avoid going to school . But to see it
was not a weekday .

1)How do you think she would have felt after


getting to know that it was the weekend?
(write 2-3 sentences)
Peggy Ann tells so many sicknesses in the
morning to avoid going to school . But to see it
was not a weekday .
1)How do you think she would have felt after getting
to know that it was the weekend?
(write 2-3 sentences)

[Link] would have felt surprised to find out


that it was not a weekday .
[Link] would have felt happy to play and stay home
that day.

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