{"id":12,"date":"2012-04-21T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/?p=12"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:15:09","slug":"edinger-house-alice-book-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/2012\/04\/21\/edinger-house-alice-book-trailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinger House Alice Book Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a study of Lewis Carroll&#8217;s <em>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0in which we considered the many different illustrators of the book, learned something of Carroll himself and Alice Liddell to whom the story was first told, and just had fun as we read the book &#8212; exploring puns, croquet (yes, we actually played an indoor version of it!), quadrilles (well we tried anyway), and some stand-ins for comfits (skittles if you must know), Edinger House students were invited to create book trailers for this iconic story. Thinking that others might want to learn more about the thinking behind and process of the project I wrote the following posts at my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">educating alice blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/06\/book-trailer-project-before-we-started\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Trailer Project: Before We Started<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/09\/book-trailer-project-making-my-own-first\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Trailer Project: Making My Own First<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/11\/book-trailer-project-introducing-the-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Trailer Project: Introducing the Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/14\/book-trailer-project-production\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Trailer Project: Production<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/01\/book-trailer-project-the-finished-trailers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Trailer Project: The Finished Trailers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The children had the choice of making their own art or using that of the original illustrator, John Tenniel. The music all is by Kevin MacLeod from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/incompetech.com\/m\/c\/royalty-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">incompetech<\/a>. \u00a0What is so impressive about these trailers is that even though they are about the same book and often use similar art, effects, and music, each is distinctive and unique &#8212; offering a particular child&#8217;s viewpoint of this famous story. For those interested in possibly doing something similar in your own classrooms here are all the trailers themselves with quotes from the children about the experience. Enjoy!<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>1. I think that the trailer is an\u00a0interesting project because we\u00a0usually don&#8217;t\u00a0make movies in school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;13&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2. This year we read\u00a0<em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0then we decided\u2026 that we were going to make a lovely, funny, amusing, interesting, and awesome\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0book trailer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;15&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3. It was fun because I loved <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>! \u00a0If you have not read it, I highly\u00a0recommend\u00a0it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;46&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4.In the beginning, I had to start from SCRATCH! It was hard work but as things came together, it got easier and easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;18&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5. In the beginning of making our trailers, I thought that it would be easy, but I was wrong!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;21&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>6.\u00a0I thought it was a really cool project, and I really enjoyed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;23&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7.\u00a0I loved doing the project and I love the way my trailer came out. I hope you like it too!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;48&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>8.\u00a0From reading the book to writing this post, I have been thinking to myself, \u201cThis is the best project yet this year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;39&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;28&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10.\u00a0The point of the trailer was to tell people that\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t a scary book written for older kids. It\u2019s a clever and funny story written for a nine year old girl. A great book for all ages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;29&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>11.\u00a0I picked a song that was mysterious but at the same time bright and bouncy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;42&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>12.\u00a0I thought <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> was really fun and interesting. I liked all the adventure. I thought he made it really funny by making Alice really calm when really weird things happened. Like when she grew smaller, all she said was, \u201cWhat a curious feeling.\u201d I also liked how Lewis Carroll made fun of what kids learn in school. I thought it was\u00a0mysterious but also really\u00a0hilarious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;30&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>13.\u00a0The <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> trailer was actually my favorite project because we got to work in Imovie and it was so fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;33&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>14.\u00a0Before I got to make the trailer the whole class read <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> together and we talked about it. Part of the point of my trailer was to show that it was a book for all ages and a really great one too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>15.\u00a0I wanted the audience to want to buy the book, and iMovie helped with that! In the end, the trailer looked great! I had a lot of fun doing it, and I hope you\u2019ll enjoy it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;44&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>16.\u00a0Week by week, we read our way through\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>. In two weeks, we had finished!\u00a0The next step was to look at a bunch of book trailers so we could write one ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;36&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>17.\u00a0First, we looked at other book trailers. 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