My Home in the Universe: Poems and Plays for Space Science

by Brod Bagert, Natalia King (Illustrator)

Overview

My Home in the Universe

Entertaining, Instructional, and Comprehensive

Little Dipper in the sky,

Little Dipper, please don't cry.

Small you are yet still you stay,

and that is how I find my way.

from "Little Dipper"

Grounded in the principle that children remember "90% of what they do in dramatic presentation," My Home in the Universe is the third book in the Brod Bagert's HeART of Science series, providing parents, teachers, and young learners with a comprehensive compendium of dramatic content literature, both entertaining and instructional.

This poignant yet comical collection of dramatic poems, monologues, and short plays creates a delightfully unique experience of the universe. Nerd-One Alvin Lofton captures the attention of young Roshanda Hale with a love poem about red giants, a super nova, and "cosmic furnaces ablaze in the boundless black of space." Ms. Mariana Moon, in an interview with talk show host Isaac Cosmos, reveals her feelings about living in the shadow of a lunar eclipse and the joy of payback when she gets to reciprocate during a solar eclipse-"little-ole me blocking out...that big ball of blazing hydrogen." Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton are likened to Fantastic Four superheroes for their brilliance and courage in bringing about the Copernican Revolution.

From cosmic dust to hydrogen fusion, to the all-consuming gravity of black holes, My Home in the Universe transforms the detachment of theoretical concepts into the immediacy of imagined personal experience-accurate, emotional, and entertaining. The journey concludes with the voice of an unnamed star who declares that "in this ocean of eternal night, I make day. I burn to give this light away and in burning earn the right to say-I am a star."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732151581
Publisher:	Living Road Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/14/2021
Series:	heART of Science , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	52
File size:	164 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 12 Years

About the Author

Poet Brod Bagert is the author of over eighteen books of poetry for children, young adults, and adults. A former lawyer and New Orleans City Councilman, Bagert penned his first poem as a favor to his daughter, who needed a poem to recite in a school program. Bagert realized that few poems written in children's voices were available, and so wrote one himself. Since then, he has helped change children's poetry in America, focusing on performance as well as the poem itself. According to Timothy Rasinski, a literacy instructor at Kent State University, Bagert's poems allow children to "create art" when they perform them. "Since he is one of the few poets to truly write in the voice of a child, it's easy for students to use his material for expressiveness," Rasinski told the New Orleans Times Picayune in a feature on Bagert. The Picayune noted that part of Bagert's appeal to children was his ability to capture their swirling moods and emotions: "Bagert's verses often feature the private emotions-raw, complex, humorous-of youthful characters he created."

Table of Contents

Countdown Jitters Principle of Rocket Engines, Newton’s Third Law of Motion

Sky Pictures History of Constellations

Little Dipper North Star, Binary Stars, Axial Precession

Around the World Zero-G—Weightlessness in Outer Space

Children of the Sun Planets, Their Discovery, How We Lost Pluto

Ride a Rocket Planets, Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud

Hungry Brain Habitual Learning, Heliosphere, Termination Shock, Oort Cloud, Astronomical Units, Light Years

Inner Heat and Outer Cold Inner and Outer Planets

My Lying Eyes and Sun Center Geocentric and Heliocentric Models of the Solar System

A Superhero Revolution Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton

Make a Wish Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite, Friction and Heat

A Nice Place to Visit Moon: Mass, Gravity, Weight; Atmospheric Pressure, Boiling Temperatures

Peek-a-Boo Moon Phases of the Moon, Waxing, Waning

Turnabout is Fair Play Lunar Eclipse, Solar Eclipse

Ring Around the Sun Venus both Morning Star and Evening Star, Transit of Venus

Sunshine Science Composition of the Sun, Hydrogen Fusion Process

A Nerd Love Poem Kinds of Stars, Black Holes, Age of Light from Stars

Black Hole Brain Life Cycle of Stars, Singularity, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs

Biggest? Galaxies: Size, Contents

The Wall The Paradox of Endlessness, Hubble Deep Field Image, Distribution of Galaxies

Alien Eyes? Odds of Extraterrestrial Life

My Home in the Universe Post-Copernican Angst

You Will Find Me Unnamed Stars, Celestial Coordinates

An Invitation to You