Here are your presentations from your groups about the first section of the book. Well done!
Archive for September, 2007
Today I began by showing you some artifacts from The Ellis Island Collection box. We took a careful look at:
A steamship poster
Two steamship postcards
A ship’s manifest
After an excellent discussion I divided you into groups of three and you began reading the first section of The Arrival. Tomorrow one person from each group will report [...]
We started our study of Shaun Tan’s The Arrival yesterday. I showed you the book and you saw that it has no words, only pictures. I then showed you some of the pictures on the Tan’s website and you saw how they connected to both your own “immigration” to Big Dalton and that of [...]
Here’s our very first Literary Salon! It was also my very first time recording it. So if you can’t hear anything or it sounds weird, I will take all the blame.
Congratulations to those students who bravely prepared and did the readings. More to come!
Selected Quotes from the Interview Transcript
Published by September 20th, 2007 in Oral History. 0 CommentsHere are the quotes Ms. Edinger selected from the transcript for us to use to create the picture book.
1. I grew up in the South of Mexico City. I was born there. I grew up there.
(Remember how Ms. Edinger redid this one? She changed it, with your help, to this: “I grew up in [...]
Below is the transcription of that interview that Ms. Levithan and Ms. Kirsch did for us. We looked at it this morning and now you should know what those ellipses and brackets are all about! You can now do what we did — listen to the interview and look at the transcript [...]
Prototype Oral History Immigrant Picture Book
Published by September 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs you know, our big fall project will be an oral history of someone who came to America from somewhere else. To help you know how to do your own we begin by doing one all together. Here is what we will be doing for this practice project:
Create good questions.
Do the interview.
Transcribe the [...]
After going through the interview and highlighting the information I wanted to use I wrote my first draft. I then proofread it, looking for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitals, and sense. And here it is all done:
Julia Stokien, a teacher at Dalton since 1988, was born in New York City at Lenox Hill Hospital. [...]
Author Blurbs: Introduction and Interviews
Published by September 12th, 2007 in Author Blurb. 1 CommentOften books have one or two paragraphs about the author, which are called blurbs. In fact, there are people who specialize in writing blurbs. It is a tricky job because the blurb writer wants to provide as much interesting information as possible about the author in one or two paragraphs.
For your first writing [...]
I am SO looking forward to meeting you very soon! I hope you all are enjoying the last few days before you return to school.
I’m already busy getting things all ready. Right now I’m washing the pillow covers and thinking about what I want to do the first day back. I’ll read [...]
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