Gory Nursery - Outline I Introduction Thesis Getting the...

Outline
I. Introduction
Thesis: Getting the skeletons out the closet. What you don’t about your favorite
nursery rhymes.
Statement of Purpose: To inform the audience of the origin of nursery rhymes and
the deeper meaning behind some popular nursery rhymes.
A. The origin of Nursery Rhymes
1. Nursery Rhymes are short or poems stories
2. Originated in Britain in 17
th
century
B. The purpose of Nursery Rhymes
1. Written to honor in local event
2. Express feeling like hate, love or fear
3. Hidden political message
4. Teaching children a moral lesson
II. Body
A. Nursery Rhymes now
1. Popular nursery rhymes
2. What are they saying
B. Gory theories behind some popular nursery rhymes
1. Ring around the rosy
a. Origin- First appeared in print in Kate Greenaway 's 1881
edition of Mother Goose
b. Meaning-About the Black Plague. Rosie colored ring shaped
rash, Poises is sweet herb used to cover order or ward of
the disease, Ashes Ashes to from a tishoo, tishoo referred to