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Hi guys, As per Rob and my comments below Jen's recent post, here's the preliminary NARA I did. Please feel free to add, change, correct the info. Thanks! I've also added the link to our project page where we discuss reasons for choosing this recording, etc. jess

2-20-10 I've been sick and my son is just starting. I'm worried about my daughter and husband being next. Either of the recordings are fine with me... I agree that the younger grades would have an easier time listening to the Raggedy Man. I'm attaching the instructions so we can consider them with a final thought for what we choose. This assignment is due Monday. Maybe we could choose the recording by today/tonight, so we can work on the NARA tomorrow (Sunday). Some thoughts: Whatever we choose needs to cross subject areas (I could see in younger grades using the Raggedy Man as a character helping us to learn topics in other subjects that pertain to how he "helps" with chores ex: science food pyramid - math calculating amount of hay given to horses - language arts, as stated by Melissa, rhyming - social studies historical perspective on th erole of Raggety Man and how that is the same or different from today) and grade levels. I am more comfortable coming up with ideas for younger students.
 * Starting at the top**

~Jen
 * Analyze the recording using the NARA worksheet questions for audio. Post your analysis on your group wiki page as indicated by your instructor.
 * On a separate wiki page, as a group:
 * Describe your reasons for selecting this particular recording. Explain why you believe this recording could be effective with students.
 * Describe at least 5 ways the recording you selected could be used in the classroom. Try to expand ideas for different subject areas and/or grade levels. For each lesson idea, include a brief description of how this activity could help promote critical thinking skills in students.

2/20/10 Raggedy Man is fine with me, I can make it work for high school students. Rob

02/20/10 Jen I feel your pain. My whole family has been sick all week, and now it's my turn. So, so miserable. At least my son, daughter, and husband have turned the corner. I was the last one to catch it, so now I can just lie in bed and feel awful. Good luck to you!! You have my sympathies. As far as this assignment goes, I HATE THIS WIKI!! I just typed a whole paragraph and it didn't save. Grr. Ok, here goes again. Jen I believe the assignment is due today with the self-eval due the 22nd, so unless I misread the gradebook, I'm going to move forward with the Raggedy Man as our option so we can finish up. Hope everyone's ok with that! jess

I figured just to get us started that I would pick one of the recordings and see what everyone else thought in terms of selecting a piece. By no means am I married to this piece so feel free to suggest a different one. Another thought is that we could all choose one and vote on which one we like best.

[|//Let Us Not Forget//]--A Message to the American People by Thomas A. Edison, 1919

Rob

Hi all, I'm here...after spending over 3 hours in the ER with my ill 2-year-old son yesterday, I'm kind of out of it. Sorry! I'm game for whatever you all want to do. Rob, I listened to the recording above and have no problems with that. I'm flexible. If anyone else has a recording they want, voting would be fine, too. I'm going to listen to others on the Edison page and see what's out there. Anyway, just checking in! jess

I just listened to the recording Rob posted (and a few others). Given the instructions to have a recording that could be effective with students across grade levels, subject areas and encourage critical thinking, I believe this recording could be powerful. Being an elementary teacher, I also like the Santa Claus in the phonograph, but I will concede to a lesson that would be more empowering to teach :) ~Jen PS - Jess, How is your son? Hope he is feeling ok!

Hi Everyone! I've been listening to the recordings, and although Let Us Not Forget is a powerful message, I feel it would be very difficult for younger students. I think it would be easier for older students to do a simple recording rather than younger students to do a more difficult recording. The Raggedy Man may be easier to connect it to other grade levels. For the older students, they could look into the history of the poem, and younger students could look for rhyming words, etc. Just a suggestion. Let me know what you all think. Melissa

Recording: [|http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edrs+50172l))+@field(COLLID+edison]))

Here are the words to the poem: James Whitcomb Riley - The Raggedy Man

O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! He comes to our house every day, An' waters the horses, an' feeds 'em hay; An' he opens the shed -- an' we all ist laugh When he drives out our little old wobble-ly calf; An' nen -- ef our hired girl says he can -- He milks the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann. -- Ain't he a' awful good Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

W'y, The Raggedy Man -- he's ist so good, He splits the kindlin' an' chops the wood; An' nen he spades in our garden, too, An' does most things 'at boys can't do. -- He clumbed clean up in our big tree An' shooked a' apple down fer me -- An' 'nother 'n', too, fer 'Lizabuth Ann -- An' 'nother 'n', too, fer The Raggedy Man. -- Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

An' The Raggedy Man one time say he Pick' roast' rambos from a' orchurd-tree, An' et 'em -- all ist roast' an' hot! -- An' it's so, too! -- 'cause a corn-crib got Afire one time an' all burn' down On "The Smoot Farm," 'bout four mile from town -- On "The Smoot Farm"! Yes -- an' the hired han' 'At worked there nen 'uz The Raggedy Man! -- Ain't he the beatin'est Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

The Raggedy Man's so good an' kind He'll be our "horsey," an' "haw" an' mind Ever'thing 'at you make him do -- An' won't run off -- 'less you want him to! I drived him wunst way down our lane An' he got skeered, when it 'menced to rain, An' ist rared up an' squealed and run Purt' nigh away! -- an' it's all in fun! Nen he skeered ag'in at a' old tin can ... Whoa! y' old runaway Raggedy Man! Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

An' The Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes, An' tells 'em, ef I be good, sometimes: Knows 'bout Giunts, an' Griffuns, an' Elves, An' the Squidgicum-Squees 'at swallers the'rselves: An', wite by the pump in our pasture-lot, He showed me the hole 'at the Wunks is got, 'At lives 'way deep in the ground, an' can Turn into me, er 'Lizabuth Ann! Er Ma, er Pa, er The Raggedy Man! Ain't he a funny old Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

An' wunst, when The Raggedy Man come late, An' pigs ist root' thue the garden-gate, He 'tend like the pigs 'uz bears an' said, "Old Bear-shooter'll shoot 'em dead!" An' race' an' chase' 'em, an' they'd ist run When he pint his hoe at 'em like it's a gun An' go "Bang! -- Bang!" nen 'tend he stan' An' load up his gun ag'in! Raggedy Man! He's an old Bear-shooter Raggedy Man! Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

An' sometimes The Raggedy Man lets on We're little prince-children, an' old King's gone To git more money, an' lef' us there -- And Robbers is ist thick ever'where; An' nen -- ef we all won't cry, fer shore -- The Raggedy Man he'll come and "'splore The Castul-halls," an' steal the "gold" -- An' steal us, too, an' grab an' hold An' pack us off to his old "Cave"! -- An' Haymow's the "cave" o' The Raggedy Man! -- Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

The Raggedy Man -- one time, when he Wuz makin' a little bow-'n'-orry fer me, Says "When you're big like your Pa is, Air you go' to keep a fine store like his -- An' be a rich merchunt -- an' wear fine clothes? -- Er what air you go' to be, goodness knows?" An' nen he laughed at 'Lizabuth Ann, An' I says "'M go' to be a Raggedy Man! -- I'm ist go' to be a nice Raggedy Man!" Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!