Creative Writing and Working Together as a Group
Andy Jones is a
A Children‘s Author with an Electric Guitar and one heck of a Voice, Andy Jones has been Entertaining and Educating students for over 20 years.
Whether he is delivering one of his own witty Poems or Raps, or he is inspiring students to create their own Rhyming Raps and to sing them back to him, Andy is a combination of energy and comedy who keeps his preps to year 6 audiences totally engaged from beginning to end of his shows. And there are a number of shows to choose from - The Ring of Rhythm, Rap Rhyme and Rocking Poetry and of course this one, What's The Joke.
What's The Joke
In this completely interactive performance, the entire audience gets to not only create an original 24 line rap song but also perform and record it.
To get the process started Andy offers your students the choice of two opening lines but once they have chosen the first line, every word of this rap song comes from your students. With the first line written, Andy chooses two students, one to be in charge of the white board and to the other student he gives a microphone.
Next Andy takes the audience through the process of creating a character; of course you're going to need a lively, colourful character to keep your audience entertained. The school uniform is perfect for school but possibly not the best attire to wear when you are standing out front of your own Rap group. Luckily Andy has a few bits and pieces that will help create the right look.
As the audience create the lines to this original rap masterpiece, Andy has a few more surprises in store. You see Andy Jones has a new FX Processor and he can't wait to try it out so when our emerging Rap Star's voice is fed through the FX Processer the effect is utterly hilarious. Of course it just wouldn't be an Andy Jones show without music, loads of laughs and heaps of fun.
As a singer/songwriter Andy with his band The Funky Monkeys has recorded with ABC Music, EMI, Festival Records and PolyGram. As an Author he has been published by HarperCollins Publishers and ABC Books.
In a career spanning across many years Andy has continuously written, recorded, published and performed his work to the audience its intended for. In every state capital in Australia and from huge crowds celebrating New Year's Eve on the shore of Sydney Harbour to libraries in far north Queensland, Andy has the appropriate energy to get any audience totally engaged.
Andy has written books for 6 year olds to young teenagers including 'The Adventures of Scooterboy and Skatergirl', 'The Awesome Book of Rap, Rhyme and Putrid Poetry' and his 'Hot Jokes for Cool Kids' series of books alone has sold over one and a half million copies world-wide.
Curriculum Relevance: Literacy - Creative Writing - Working Together as a Group.
