Yesterday we had an incredibly special visit from The Arrival’s creator Shaun Tan and his editor Arthur A. Levine and presented our Arrival Collection box. Shaun was gracious and lovely as he listened to the children as they told him about the objects in the box. He willingly answered a myriad of questions and [...]
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The following items were made by the members of Edinger House from ideas they got from The Arrival by Shaun Tan. They read this wordless book because it is about immigration and they are studying it in school. The students were inspired to do this because they live in New York City and many [...]
So now we are creating artifacts for our Arrival Box (based on the reproductions in The Ellis Island Collection). I love what you have done so far! Today you will be writing about these artifacts. Then Ms. Kirsch and I will take photographs of all of your artifacts, combine them with your writing, [...]
Wow. Your final presentations were as thoughtful as all previous ones. Here’s the podcast:
Here’s your podcast of Part IV. Great job!
Here’s the podcast for your presentations about the third part of the book. I’ve been SO impressed with your keen observations and thoughts about the book. Makes me rethink some of my ideas about it.
One of you wrote this little poem in response to Part II (particularly to the way the main character is literally dropped into his new country via a balloon).
Balloon Poem
Dropped here,
dropped where
dropped when
dropped where.
Dropped down,
dropped fast,
dropped scared.
Will he last?
And here is the podcast of today’s presentations:
Here are your presentations from your groups about the first section of the book. Well done!
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 [...]
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