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Well, the end of the year is coming up and these blogs are going to unfortunately shut down. You won’t be able to comment because someone is using spam. You will still be able to read them just no comments. Blogs have been a wonderful experience! We learned a lot such as scanning in images and adding audio mp3 files. Another thing was that it makes you improve your writing and having the public read it. Nothing about this I didn’t like so I’m interested in joining Ms. Edinger and Ms. Nickles’s blog club. That means I like them! That’s all for now, look out for c16sh soon!

Edinger House recently read The Wizard of Oz and watched the movie. We also watched a docudrama about the author, L. Frank Baum. I think that the book is better than the movie because the movie leaves out the part when Dorothy and her friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion journey to Glinda through the Country of the Quadlings and the China Town. There is also a beginning part in the movie when Dorothy runs away (for 5 minutes). And 3rd, the in Throne Room in the movie there is no throne!! The wizard in the movie looks he is on a projector. As I said before, the book is better because of those 3 reasons.

Feel free to comment your opinion on which is better!

Today our 3rd grade buddies came and interviewed us about our “journey” from Little Dalton to Big Dalton. They are using our oral history questions but have changed them (e.g. “How did you learn English”). Third grade to fourth grade is very different because we change buildings. It is also different because we change our houses from House 43 to Edinger House. The building changes from 5 floors to 12 floors. Also, if our buddies end up in my class, they get there own blogs. (I am writing on it.) Our interview will be recorded and published on this blog. The podcast is at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

 

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C16sh1 and I have finished our comic! We have read the book aloud and made our comics. C16sh1 and his blog is linked here. Our project page is linked here. That link is for all the chapters. For our actual comic, click here. We are chapter  number 7. I have included a few more drawings for the end. For other posts about Alice, they are here, here, here, here, and here. [Our most recent post is the first here.]

Last Friday we had our Mad Tea Party. My classmates brought in treats and the parents helped us set up and at the same time we launched our comic which is linked on the second here. Here is a link with some photos of the Tea Party.

Enjoy!

-C16sh

c16sh1 and I are moving through our Alice comic! We have started using a program called Comic Life which is made by Plasq. We have included a title page, and about 10 other pages. Our comic has a lot of speech bubbles because the Mad Tea Party is a big chunk of dialogue. Stay tuned for our comic!

Well, we have finished most of our drawings which are the March Hare, the Hatter, Alice, the March Hare’s house, and the tea party. Here are our drawings:

Alice

The Hatter

The March Hare

The March Hare’s House

The Tea Party

The Watch and Cup

Now we are starting Comic Life.

The whole 4th grade from the Dalton School was just on an overnight trip to Plymouth, MA for 2 days. We went because we are studying the Pilgrims.
Our bus left NYC at 8:04 AM on Thursday, April 17, 2008. We arrived in Plymouth, MA in front of the Mayflower II at 1:30 PM. We then went on a walk to see the original settlement. Our first stop was the Plymouth Rock but unfortunately the building was under construction so we couldn’t see it. So we walked up Leyden St to Burial Hill where the Pilgrims are buried and where their fort was. Leyden was the town in Holland where they moved. As we walked, we saw the sites of houses of the Billington’s, the Bradford’s, and the Fuller’s. We walked up Burial Hill and visited the graves of the Pilgrims such as William Bradford.
Then we walked back to the Mayflower II. It is an almost exact replica of the Mayflower. We met people who pretending to be Mayflower passengers. It is hard to imagine that 102 people were on this boat but it was crowded for us to!
Then we took the bus to the Plantation. We went to the Wampanoag village and helped make a canoe. Then we went to the craft center and saw women making a sail for the Mayflower II and making pottery. Then we had a dinner. Then we had various activities like trying to figure out who lived in a house, playing Pilgrim games, writing with a quill pen, and dressing up as Pilgrims. The next day we went to the gift shop and the 1627 Pilgrim Village. We met Love Brewster and helped him make firewood. We also went to the fort and saw cannons. Finally, we had a pizza and cookie lunch and boarded the buses back to New York City the trip back was from 1:30
PM to 4:50. It was my favorite trip so far this year!

In Alice comics, now we have finished our script here is the ending part. We have edited it with Ms. Edinger. We have shortened it.

***There is more writing at the end of the script!***

Chapter 7-Mad Tea Party
1. Arrives at tea party
D: Alice arrived at the March Hare’s house. The March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse were having a tea party.
Hatter: No Room No Room!
Alice: There is so room!

2. Conversation about how Alice was being rude
March Hare: Have some wine
Alice: There is none!
March Hare: Of course there is no wine, it’s a tea party,
Alice: Then it wasn’t very civil for you to offer it then,
March Hare: It wasn’t very civil for you to sit down at our table, Hatter: You should cut your hair,
Alice: It’s not that nice to make personal remarks,

3. Riddle
Hatter: Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
Alice I can answer that,
MH: Do you mean that you can find out the answer?
Alice: Exactly so.
MH Then you should say what you mean.
Alice: I do. I mean at least I mean what I say. It’s the same thing, you know.
MH Not at all. If so, then you might just say I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see.

4. What day of the month it is
Hatter What day of the month is it? (Drawing of H looking at his watch)
Alice: The fourth.
Hatter: Two days wrong!

5. Butter
Hatter: I told you the butter would not work!
MH It was the best butter,
Hatter Yes, but some crumbs got into it as well. You shouldn’t have used a bread knife. (The March Hare took the watch and observed it and then dipped it into his tea.)
MH It was the best butter, you know.

6. Watch
Alice: What an unusual watch, (close up of watch.) It tells the date of the month but not what o’clock it is.
Hatter Why should it? Does your watch tell the year?
Alice. But that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time.
Hatter: Which is just the case with mine,
Alice: I don’t quite understand,
Hatter: Have you guessed the riddle yet?
Alice: No I give up, what’s the answer?
Hatter I don’t know.
Alice: I think you might do something better with the time rather then wasting your time with riddles you don’t know the answer to,

7. Twinkle song
MH I wish it was time for dinner.
A that would be grand but the problem would be I would not be hungry.
H Not at first, but we can keep it as long as half past one as long as you like.
A is that the way you manage?
H not I. We quarreled last March just before the March Hare went mad. It was a great concert given by the Queen of Hearts and I had to sing:

Twinkle, twinkle stupid rat! How I wonder what your at.
Way low down the world so low! Like an idiotic foe!
Twinkle twinkle stupid rat! How I wonder what your at!
Eating cheese till you’re fat! Twinkle twinkle stupid rat!

I barely had gone through the first when the Queen said, ‘He’s murdering the time. Off with his head!’
A How dreadful!

8. Leaving party
H You shouldn’t talk.
Alice: You are just too rude. I’m leaving.

9. Gets key
(Draw this: Once more, Alice found herself in the long hall right next to the glass table. Then she started to nibble on the mushroom so she was about a foot high. She took the key and unlocked the door.)
10. Goes to garden
(Draw this: Then all of the sudden she found her self in a beautiful garden with roses and a lot of fountains.)

P. S. The twinkle song is our idea.

So far we have illistrated the Hatter and the March Hare’s house. I am working on the March Hare and my partner, c16sh1 is drawing the tea party. We haven’t scanned anything in yet but the next post will probably have picture.

C16sh1 and I are making a comic about chapter 7 which is called The Mad Tea Party. We are still making a script of the chapter. Our characters are the March Hare, the Hatter, the Doormouse, and Alice. We chose our scenes and then I typed and c16sh1 chose the script. Because our chapter has a lot of conversation, we had to cut a lot. I am including our script which is not finished but is almost finished. I got very tired of typing the quotation marks and typing “said Alice.” so for the end part I typed “MH (March Hare) It was the best butter, you know.” The scenes are in bold. Here it is:

Chapter 7-Mad Tea Party
1. Arrives at tea party
Alice arrived at the March Hare’s house. The March Hare, the Hatter and the Doormouse were having a tea party. The Hatter said there was no room at the table but she insisted.
2. Conversation about how Alice was being rude
“Have some wine,” said the March Hare. “There is none!” replied Alice. “Of course there is no wine, it’s a tea party,” said the March Hare. “Then it wasn’t very civil for you to offer it then,” said Alice in an angry tone.” “It wasn’t very civil for you to sit down at our table,” the March Hare shot back. “ You should cut your hair,” the Hatter remarked to Alice. “It’s not that nice to make personal remarks,” Alice said.
3. Riddle
The Hatter looked up at Alice and only said, “Why is a Raven like a writing desk?” “I can answer that,” said Alice. “Do you mean that you can find out the answer?” asked the March Hare. “Exactly so.” “Then you should say what you mean.” “I do. I mean at least I mean what I say. It’s the same thing, you know.” “Not at all. If so, then you might just say I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see.”
4. What day of the month it is
There was a awkward moment of silence until the Hatter said, “What day of the month is it?” He took out his watch and stared at Alice. Alice thought for a minute and replied, “The fourth.” The Hatter said, “Two days wrong!”
5. Butter
“I told you the butter would not work!” said the Hatter to the March Hare. The March Hare replied, “It was the best butter,” he meekly replied. “Yes, but some crumbs got into it as well,” said the Hatter. “You shouldn’t have used a bread knife.” The March Hare took the watch and observed it and then dipped it into his tea. He said again, “It was the best butter, you know.”

6. Watch
“What a unusual watch,” said Alice. “It tells the date of the month but not what o’clock it is.” The Hatter said, “Why should it? Does your watch tell the year?” “Of course not,” said Alice. “But that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time.” “Which is just the case with mine,” said the Hatter. Alice felt very puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no meaning, but it was still English. “I don’t quite understand,” said Alice. “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” “No I give up, what’s the answer?” asked Alice. The Hatter replied, “I don’t know.” “I think you might do something better with the time rather then wasting your time with riddles you don’t know the answer to,” said Alice.
7. Twinkle song
MH I wish it was time for dinner.
A that would be grand but the problem would be I would not be hungry.
H Not at first, but we can keep it as long as half past one as long as you like.
A is that the way you manage?
H not I. We quarrled last March just before the March Hare went mad. It was a great concert given by the Queen of Hearts and I had to sing:

8. Leaving party

9. Gets key

10. Goes to garden

This is a drawing that is part of Mourt’s Relation which is probably written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow. Mourt is probably someone who was part of the Merchant Adventures. My drawing is describing the Cape Cod Bay so I drew a map of the area. I drew the states so you have a feeling of how far away Plymouth is from where Boston was settled and where New Amsterdam (Now New York) is. There is a direct quote from Mourt’s Relation in the ocean. If you look at my very first post on the bottom, you will know that c15mb1 also did the same thing last year. There post is linked here. My class annotated a section of Mourt’s Relation on our class blog. Enjoy!