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  The Sneetches and Other Stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some Sneetches have a green star on their belly, and in the beginning of the story the presence or absence of a star is the basis for discrimination.
Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd", while Sneetches without stars are shunned and excluded.
Like "The Sneetches", "The Zax" is written in anapestic tetrameter and follows a strict rhyme scheme.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories   (838 words)

  
 Teaching Phonograms Through "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss Language Arts Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, ...
The teacher reads the story again, this time asking the students to put a marker or token on their words when they are read aloud.
When the student has covered all three of his words with tokens he may say "Sneetches!" to alert the teacher that he or she has heard each of his or her words.
After rhymes have been found for the student's three words, the teacher can return to reading the text until another student calls out "Sneetches!" and the process continues until the end of the book is reached.
www.lessonplanspage.com /LAPhonogramsSneeches1.htm   (866 words)

  
 Writing Assignments
The sneetches with the stars on their bellies have always been seen as superior than those without stars on their bellies.
As children, the sneetches without stars were not allowed to play with the sneetches with stars.
The children sneetches only know that their parents have never mingled among each other, they are not really sure of the reasons all they know for sure is that the sneetches without stars did not play with the sneetches with stars.
www.valdosta.edu /~femathis/u4a1.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Sneetches and Other Stories (Classic Seuss): Books: Dr. Seuss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax.
It is a story of a society of haves and have-nots (imagine that!), in which access to the goodies of life are determined by whether or not you have a star on your belly.
In The Sneetches, the lesson is tolerance of those who are different from you.
www.amazon.com /Sneetches-Other-Stories-Classic-Seuss/dp/0394800893   (1921 words)

  
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The Star-Belly Sneetches thought of themselves more highly than the Plain-Belly Sneetches and wanted to make a statement of separation between the two, based on the stars on their bellies.
The interpretation was that the Star-Belly Sneetches were only to interact with the Star-Belly Sneetches, and not to acknowledge anyone but their own culture or kind.
Both types of Sneetches were narrow-minded and they should have paid more attention to their decisions that were made in the retrieval stage.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jb199399/esp/ArtImitates.doc   (721 words)

  
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In the story The Sneetches there are two physically different types of Sneetches, the Plain-Belly Sneetches and the Star-Belly Sneetches.
In relation to human beings, you could say that the Star-Belly Sneetches are the ones that have money and the Sneetches that don’t have the stars are deprived of money for example.
Well, the Star-Belly Sneetches hold their noses far up in the air and believe they are far superior to the others.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bs352197/esp/sneetches.doc   (765 words)

  
 The Sneetches News
Seuss' whimsical rhymes and wacky illustrations have made a lasting impression on several generations as parents introduce their kids to favorite creations such as Horton the Elephant, the rambunctious Cat...
The Sneetches are at the beaches and Who-Ville can be seen at last, along with new bird's-eye views of Universal's Islands of Adventure.
The Sneetches are at the beaches and Who-Ville can be seen at last, along with scenes from several other Dr.
www.topix.net /who/the-sneetches   (509 words)

  
 Sneetches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Star Belly Sneetches were proud and walked right by the plain belly sneetches without saying a word to them.
He was planning on scamming the Sneetches with the star belly on and star belly off machines.
When the starbelly Sneetches saw that the plain belly sneetches had stars they were very mad.
library.thinkquest.org /CR0210462/sneetches.html   (171 words)

  
 Sneetches - AOL Music
Some Sneetches have a green star on their belly, and in the beginning of the story...
Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd",...
Download, listen and watch Sneetches music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/sneetches/30129/main   (159 words)

  
 Parasol Records : Labels : Parasol : Mike Levy : Fireflies
Their first record Lights Out With The Sneetches was released in the UK on Kaleidoscope records and their second, Sometimes That's All We Have, was released on the "pre-Oasis" Creation Records making the Sneetches the first American band to be signed to that esteemed label.
Chief Sneetch Mike Levy promptly enlisted his former bandmates to begin work on a solo debut…and five years later, the gang’s finally finished the album.
"The Sneetches were one of the msot beloved bands of the ‘90s indie pop scene, and those of you who have been lamenting their departure might want to take note that 1) the band has gotten back together, and 2) their singer and chief songwriter, Mike Levy, has released his debut solo CD, Fireflies.
www.parasol.com /labels/parasol/parcd058.asp   (1018 words)

  
 yarn boy yarn blog » Yarn Boy and the Sneetches
For those of you who don’t know, there are two kinds of Sneetches; ones with stars on their bellies, and ones without.
The star-bellied Sneetches are always having all kinds of fun; barbecues on the beach, baseball games, and many other seaside activities.
They’re also in the habit of excluding the non-star-bellied Sneetches, who mope around on the beach, doing nothing except wishing they had stars on their bellies.
www.yarnboy.com /wp/?p=24   (1769 words)

  
 Geek On The Mountain » Blog Archive » Where Are All The Sneetches?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sneetches are these yellow Dr. Seuss characters.
I love the Sneetches and actually when my god-daughter was born got the book for her.
The great thing is at the end none of the Sneetches know whether they originally had stars on the bellies or not, so they’re all equal!
www.slaad.com /2006/12/01/where-are-all-the-sneeches   (811 words)

  
 DR. SEUSS - THE CAT IN THE HAT - CELS - DRAWINGS
Drawings of Horton the Elephant meandering along streams in the Jungle of Nool, for example, mirror the watercourses in Springfield's Forest Park from the period.
The fanciful truck driven by Sylvester McMonkey McBean in The Sneetches could well be the Knox tractor that young Ted saw on the streets of Springfield.
The Sneetches: are ostrich-like creatures who live on the beaches.
www.celfcentered.com /?pageid=33100   (1228 words)

  
 The Real Deal- The Sneetches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The reason Dr. Seuss wrote The Sneetches is that he went through some troublesome times as a child.
He wanted to tell everybody that they are equal so he wrote Sneetches.
The Holocaust, another reason for the Star Bellied Sneetches.
library.thinkquest.org /CR0210462/sneecteswhy.html   (69 words)

  
 Teaching Phonograms Through The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss - An AskERIC Lesson Plan
When the student has covered all three of his words with tokens s/he may say "Sneetches!" to alert the teacher that he or she has heard each of his or her words.
The teacher asks the student to find each word on the page of the book on which it appeared and to point to and say the word in the text that rhymes with it.
After rhymes have been found for the student's three words, the teacher can return to reading the text until another student calls out "Sneetch!" and the process continues until the end of the book is reached.
www.eduref.org /Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0012.html   (802 words)

  
 The Sneetches
San Francisco's Sneetches feature the classic pop songwriting talents of vocalist/guitarist Mike Levy and guitarist Matt Carges, plus the British-born rhythm section of Alejandro "Alec" Palao (bass, formerly of the Stingrays) and Daniel Swan (drums, formerly of the Cortinas).
Although the Sneetches wrote bright, sunny pop melodies, their lyrics were often introspective and downbeat.
The Sneetches resurfaced in 1994 on the SpinART label with the LP Blow Out the Sun; several collections appeared in the interim period -- 1991's 1985-1991 repackaged their debut with outtakes and 12" tracks, 1993's Think Again covered the band's singles for Bus Stop, and 1994's Obscure Years reprised Think Again plus seven more tracks.
www.busstoplabel.com /sneetches2.htm   (308 words)

  
 Agency of NATO and United Nations to Distribute Dr. Seuss Stories to Foster Racial Tolerance in War-Torn Bosnia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sneetches is a story about a group of fanciful creatures, the Sneetches.
There are two groups of Sneetches, and the only difference between them is the star upon their bellies - some have them and some don't.
Eventually, the Sneetches without the stars paint them on their bellies, and the Sneetches with stars have them removed.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_August_10/ai_50233312   (437 words)

  
 Newspaper Assocation Recognizes ADL's "Celebrate Diversity" Program
Celebrate Diversity included publishing the famous Dr. Seuss story "The Sneetches" in the Houston Chronicle, accompanied by thought-provoking activities for children to heighten awareness about diversity.
The Sneeches, first published in 1961, is a classic story of how children and adults can learn to respect all human differences and help break down barriers between groups.
Some of the Sneetches, you see, have stars upon their bellies, while other Sneetches do not.
www.adl.org /issue_combating_hate/celebrate_diversity.asp   (198 words)

  
 Learning to Give - Lesson Plan - Bringing Tolerance to Our Beaches (Private-Religious)
The purpose of this lesson is to emphasize to students that there are many types of people in the world, and we must be tolerant of everyone’s uniqueness.
Guide them to realize that their hatred was based simply on the way they looked and a desire to be superior.
Ask students to think of real-life situations where people have been discriminated against based on their religion, race, ethnicity, gender, etc. For each situation, ask the class to identify the Star-bellied Sneetches and the Plain-bellied Sneetches and ask what would be different if McBean came to teach them tolerance.
learningtogive.org /lessons/unit176/lesson3.html   (1005 words)

  
 - Sneetches - Song Listings
Being demos, these songs are a little less pristinely produced than their proper albums, though surprisingly not by much.
Another highlight is the sweet but slightly sinister "Come Along With Me," a catchy invitation to dump one's present significant other and run away with the singer.
The Sneetches' final release (although they didn't officially announce their split for years, until singer/songwriter Mike Levy finally released a solo album in 2000), Starfucker ends the Sneetches story on a mildly equivocal but satisfying note.
www.mp3.com /albums/251406/summary.html   (421 words)

  
 incredibooks.com » The Sneetches and Other Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sneetches, the title story, is about birds.
I’ve always loved The Sneetches, and Too Many Daves is a poem that I can partially recite.
You can also buy The Sneetches and Other Stories from Amazon in the United Kingdom and Canada.
incredibooks.com /2006/11/15/the-sneetches-and-other-stories   (257 words)

  
 Peace Education with Dr. Seuss
The Star Belly Sneetches flaunt their belly stars as proof of their superiority and refuse to mix with the "inferior" Plain Bellies.
On the last page, the Sneetches decide to abandon their silly status games and to treat each other as friends and equals, vowing never again to discriminate against others who look different.
Have children talk about how they think the Plain Belly Sneetches felt about the Star Bellies' attitude and behavior, and how the prejudiced attitudes and stereotyping affected the life of the two groups and the Sneetch community as a whole.
www.jalt.org /global/32Seuss.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Dr. Seuss The Sneetches » SpikedHumor.com
I used to work with a guy who sometimes wore a t-shirt with the sneetches on it, now i know what it is.
...And all the star belly Sneetches were pouched because their unique stars were a prized aphrodisiac to the human species.
The star belly Sneetches were pouched and pouched until there was no more star belly Sneetches left.
www.spikedhumor.com /articles/49554/Dr_Seuss_The_Sneetches.html   (256 words)

  
 Liberty Education Forum
It would be comical if the issue didn't have such far reaching, negative implications for every member of the American family.
In the Sneetches there are two classes of pot-bellied citizens.
The Sneetches "got really quite smart on that day, the day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches."
www.libertyeducationforum.org /pages/KF_issues_ideas4.html   (944 words)

  
 Fall 2001 Ohio Today Online - The sneetches as teachers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Bill Manhire, BSCE '01, read these first lines of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches and Other Stories" as part of a spring College of Business class assignment, he didn't know what to think.
Assistant Professor of Management Systems Lenie Holbrook used Seuss' lesson in prejudice, characterized by furry yellow Sneetches who are divided by those who have stars and those who don't, as a way to introduce students to societal issues in the business world.
He also realized he could pass the moral message along by donating his copy of "Sneetches" to his mother's Amesville Elementary kindergarten class.
www.ohiou.edu /ohiotoday/fall01/depts/sneetch.html   (216 words)

  
 The Sneetches and teaching diversity
LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina — and the world.
This lesson uses “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss as an introduction to diversity and tolerance.
The students crawl under one of the tables while the teacher shakes the table to resemble the star-on machine in the book, and upon exiting, a paper star is taped to their shirt.
www.learnnc.org /lessons/Boltzr5232002337   (745 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Sneetches
San Francisco's Sneetches — singer/guitarist Matt Carges and singer/bassist/guitarist Mike Levy, drummer Daniel Swan and, from Slow on, bassist Alejandro (Alec) Palao — is one of the most tasteful, consistently tuneful pop bands on the American scene.
Tying for top tune honors: a superb reading of the Easybeats' "Pretty Girl" and the gentle, flowing "Just Another Lonely One," which may be the best thing the Sneetches have ever recorded.
The all-new Blow Out the Sun is a good-as-ever distillation of the Sneetches' influences, meshed into a brilliantly conceived and fully realized record.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=sneetches   (329 words)

  
 Sneetches: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sneetches: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
Although the Sneetches existed in some form or another for well over a decade, they were never quite a full-time proposition, and their curious release schedule is full of anomalies and placeholders.
The vinyl-only release Starfucker (named, for no readily apparent reason, after the original title of the Rolling Stones' "Star Star") is one of them.
www.music.com /group/sneetches/1   (427 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Young, old love Seuss, I'm told
We should not judge someone because they are handicapped, or because of their skin color, or the clothes they wear.
"I picked the Plain Sneetches because they didn't get mad or mean when the Star Belly Sneetches were mean to them and didn't invite them to special things.
The Plain Sneetches teach me to be kind to other people, even when they are mean to me. I will always be nice to other people." And, said Killian Gustaveson, the Sneetches teach you that "you shouldn't want what someone else has."
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590045978,00.html   (709 words)

  
 Dr. Seuss Makes Me Leuss - Poetry, Sneetches & Stars Upon Thars by Chris Dunmire
The snooty Star-Belly Sneetches decided that they were better than the Plain-Belly sort and would purposely exclude them from "frankfurter roasts or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts."
So in and out of the machinery all the Sneetches would go, to add stars, to remove stars, to forefront the show.
The Sneetches remind me of certain yucky people, and seeing them illustrated in a Seuss way makes me giggle.
www.chrisdunmire.com /essays/seuss-sneetches.shtml   (558 words)

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