1.Listen to Ms. Edinger read the book Joseph Cornell: Secrets in a Box.
2. Explore the website, Navigating the Imagination and the exhibit’s web site.
3. Plan on paper your E. B. White box. Hopefully, you will try to come up with a theme that is in all the White books you read rather than just a scene from one of the books. ( You may want to work on this tonight as homework in order to be ready to begin your box tomorrow. Also, you may want to bring in materials to use in your box.)
4. Write a one paragraph explanation of what your box is to be in terms of E. B. White and his books. (You can write this on the same paper as your plan. Be sure to include thematic words: friendship. love, saving, life, death, etc.)
5. Once it is okayed by me you can begin your box. (You MUST have a clear sketch and plan for me to okay it.)
6. Before anything else cover all the sides inside and out.
7. Now you will want to put in the different parts, letters, words, things. Make it wonderful!!!
All from Trumpet of the Swan.
JL reading from Trumpet of the Swan:
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Another JL reading from Trumpet of the Swan:
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NL reading from Trumpet of the Swan:
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Last Monday the students of Edinger House came back from PE to discover white bobble-head pigs. tiny spiders, and webs on their desks. They came in listening to E. B. White reading the first chapter of Charlotte’s Web. After settling in with treats and drinks, the children were privileged to hear Ms. Elish’s story. As a child she wrote E. B. White and he wrote back! She read and showed us her treasured letter from the famous author. Handwritten, no less! He mentioned working on a children’s book which we all guessed must have been The Trumpet of the Swan. What a treat!
Then came our readings. Each student had prepared a brief reading from either Trumpet of the Swan or Stuart Little. In this and then next few posts you can listen to podcasts of these readings. (Parents and children: I’ve used your initials so you will be able to figure which you are.)
The first set were readings from Trumpet of the Swan:
AM reading from Trumpet of the Swan:
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Today you are going to begin transcribing your oral history interview! Here are some tips to make it easy:
- Write on ONE side of the paper.
- Skip lines between each question and each answer. This will make it much easier to read.
- Use script or print — whatever is easiest for you and easiest to read.
- Number the pages and (ideally) keep them stapled together.
- Write down your subject’s words as accurately as you can.
- You will probably have to listen more than once to some bits of the interview to get the exact words. Get comfortable rewinding your recorder just a bit to do this.
- If you can’t understand a word, try to figure it out using context clues (the rest of what they are saying). If you still are having trouble, ask a teacher to listen. And if she/he can’t figure it out just put in “unintelligible” and move on.
- You may leave out “um” “er” and words like that. Put ellipses (…) in where you do.
- Don’t worry about spelling. Just get the words down so that you can read them when you go back to the transcript. (You will take care of the spelling later in the process.)
Remember to use the same format that was used for our model interview with Yolanda Ortiz:
Yolanda Ortiz: My name is Yolanda Ortiz Rodriguez. In the Spanish countries you use the two last names.
Stephanie Fins: And what do the two names represent?
YO: My father’s is Ortiz, and my mother’s is Rodriguez.
SF: OK and your father’s name comes before your mother’s name.
YO: In Puerto Rico.
SF: In Puerto Rico, and in many Spanish speaking countries. So that’s why when you tell me your name I can figure out who your father was – his name at least – and who your mother is. Ok so where did you come from?
YO: I was born in New York. I come from a group of parents that they came in the early 50’s when a group of Puerto Ricans immigrated to the United States. They all came to New York, my parents met here in New York City.