BUTTER BATTLE-You CREATE the Ending
You will write an ending to Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book. The
book ends with both the Yooks and the Zooks developing a bomb
called the Big-Boy Boomero, which parallels the US and the
USSR’s development of nuclear weapons. You will continue the
story by describing events leading to the end of the Cold War
Requirements: Rough Draft I.N. pg 58
must write at least two stanzas of four lines each
Possible EVENTS TO INCLUDE
1. Korean
4. Cuban Missile Crisis
War (19505. Vietnam War (Include that it ends badly for
1953. Use
the Yooks and the term domino theory)
Containment and
6. Détente in the 1970s
Truman Doctrine here or with Vietnam.)
7. Strategic Defense Initiative SDI or “Star Wars”
2. Sputnik
8 Fall of Berlin Wall 1989
3. Berlin Wall built (You could say that the wall already in
9 Reunification of Germany(yooks and Zooks unify)
the story is built higher, with barbed wire and guards patrolling it.)
Possible WORDS TO INCLUDE Containment, Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory,Sputnik etc.
Remember:
Yooks: eat with butter side up
Zooks: eat with butter side down
Van Itch is a Zook
Sample paragraphs from the book:
“My Boys in the Back Room have finally found how:
Just wait till you see what they’ve puttered up now!
In their great new machine you’ll fly over that Wall
And clobber those Butter-Down Zooks one and all!”
Those Boys in the Back Room sure knew how to putter!
They made me a thing called the Utterly Sputter
And I jumped aboard with my heart all a flutter
And steered toward the land of the Upside-Down Butter.
You now know the story of Zook and of Yook,
And by golly it’s time to finish the book.
When we last left the story, with a quiver and quigger,
Just wondering exactly who might pull the trigger.
Using knowledge and know-how and gosh all your wit,
Write an ending to the story that ended so quick.
Include history and fact and all that you can
Draw a picture so history doesn’t seem quite so bland.
Make it rhyme and for sure you’ll get as return
A nice lovely grade that you rightly have earned.
Rubric:Proficient- B grade
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Typed, written neatly in ink
Neat
In Prose, not rhyme
Refers to 2 events in the end of the Cold
War
 Accurately describes the end of the Cold
War
 Illustrations that help tell the story
Advanced- A grade
 Uses a Dr. Seuss rhyme scheme
 Uses Dr. Seuss style illustrations
 Covers more than 4 events in the end of the
Cold War
 Refers to at least 2 people from the Cold
War
 More than 8 lines long
 has color
C- grade: Written in pencil, Covers an event, attempt at rhyme and completion
D- grade: Multiple missing pieces