The Circus Within Me 1st Year RMPS Mr. Francis. Knox Academy RMPS Department The Circus Within Me...

The Circus Within Me

1st YearRMPS

Mr. Francis

Knox Academy RMPS Department


Lesson Aims and Objectives:- Find out about our different

behaviours.- Develop our creative writing skills.



Within all of us is a zoo! All of us have different personalities. Some of us are very shy. Some of us are very loud. Some of us like to joke around. Some of us are very serious.



However, its not that simple. Sometimes our personalities change in different situations.

For example, think back to your first day at high school. Even if you were usually a loud person, on that day you might have been quiet and shy.



A man named Carl Sandburg has written a poem describing all of the different characteristics he has.

To do this he uses the example of a circus - Within him are many different animals.



There is a wolf in me…fangs pointed for tearing gashes… a red tongue for raw meat….and hot lappings of blood.



There is a fox in me…a silver grey fox…I Sniff and guess…I double pick things out of the air…I nose in the night…I circle and loop and double cross.


There is a hog in me…a snout and a belly…a machinery for eating and

grunting…a machinery for sleeping satisfied…in the sun.



There is a baboon in me…clambering clawed…dog faced…yawping a gallot’s hunger…hairy under the armpits…ready to snarl and kill.




There is an eagle in me and a mocking bird…

and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams…

and the mocking bird warbles in the early afternoon before the dew is gone.



Look at the following animals. What sort of person do you think

they would be?



A Mouse



An Elephant



A Tiger



A Cheetah



A Sea Lion



A Squirrel



A Lion



A Snake



TASKS1. Take each stanza (portion) of the

poem and write, in your own words, what the author is saying about the kind of person he is.

2. Write four other animals that are not mentioned in the poem. Draw a cartoon/picture of them and write what sort of characteristics they have.



TASKS3. Write two lists. One should

contain the animals you would like to be. The other should contain the animals you would not want to be.

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