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Anatomy Of A Book [Infographic]
Books are like bodies — it’s hard to get rid of them. If a librarian is caught throwing books into a dumpster — and we could be talking about science textbooks from the 60’s that still refer to the Brontosaurus — bad press will follow. Suddenly, we’re all monsters for trashing the sacred cow. Like bodies, books display infinite variety and at the same time are all basically the same; they share a common anatomy.
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Anatomy Of A Book [Infographic]
Books are like bodies — it’s hard to get rid of them. If a librarian is caught throwing books into a dumpster — and we could be talking about science textbooks from the 60’s that still refer to the Brontosaurus — bad press will follow. Suddenly, we’re all monsters for trashing the sacred cow. Like bodies, books display infinite variety and at the same time are all basically the same; they share a common anatomy.
Geek out has begun.
Monday, April 1, 2013 is the last day to enter your child’s story in the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest! WYCC PBS Chicago will choose local winners that will then move on to nationals.
Visit wycc.org/kids/writerscontest for more information on how to enter. Good luck!
We hope you haven’t forgotten about the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest! If your K-3 child is interested in writing, visit the WYCC website for information on how he/she can submit a winning story and be featured nationally.
Good luck!
Enter your K-3 child in the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest! Visit the WYCC website for contest rules and to download the entry form. You can enter any time between now and April 1, 2013, and there are even activity sheets to help your child write a winning story. The national winners will be announced on or around July 1, 2013 and will be available online for the entire country to read!
Hey, Chicago parents! We want YOUR child to enter the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest! Visit the contest website at http://pbskids.org/writerscontest/ for more information.
Winners will be announced on or around July 1, 2013. The contest is open to children in grades K-3. Good luck!
The dream!
(via wnyc)
Adding “reading” to the check-up list: National literacy program Reach Out and Read’s new breed of pediatricians — part doctor, part teacher — help parents share books with their children to encourage cognitive development.
But why the doctor’s office? Because that’s the one place where all children, including those most at risk, go regularly before they enter school.
Without some school experience before first grade, most low-income children are almost guaranteed to begin school behind everyone else.
And we are talking about a lot of children here; 5.1 million American children under the age of 5 are growing up in poverty. So what are states doing to get these kids ready for first grade? See for yourself.
Only 10 states and the District of Columbia tell schools they must provide full day kindergarten; 34 states require half-day programs, and six states do not require any kindergarten at all.
Preschool programs like Head Start reach about one-third of 3- and 4-year-olds. And in spite of their proven success, early education programs are now being cut.
That leaves it to programs like Reach Out and Read to pick up the slack. About 11,000 children a year come through the clinic at Bellevue. All are from low-income homes and, for most, English is their second language… More
NOTE: After this segment was filmed, Bellevue Hospital was flooded by Hurricane Sandy and almost all the program’s books were lost. Help rebuild their library by making a monetary contribution here (Donation Category: Reach out and Read) or contact Marie Betancourt at roramarie1@aol.com to determine other ways you can help.
Chapter 1
In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He combined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. The old servants of the family suspected him to have been the son of the Baron’s sister, by a good, honest gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady would never marry because he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his genealogical tree having been lost through the injuries of time.
Watch Invitation to World Literature tonight at 9:30 p.m.
(Source: learner.org)
Mary Zimmerman, playwright, director and Northwestern University professor, in “Journey to the West” on Invitation to World Literature.
If this quote doesn’t make you tune in at 9:30 p.m., we don’t know what will. Read more from the transcript by clicking here.
Photo found in a book, married by gondola.
Go to 14:20 to see an amazing first-edition copy of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Watch the full episode of Antiques Roadshow’s “Philadelphia, PA - Hour 3” online or on WYCC at 7 p.m. tonight.
Writer, critic and professor Daniel Mendelsohn’s reflections on reading Homer’s The Odyssey.
Invitation to World Literature features The Odyssey tonight at 9:30 p.m.
(Source: learner.org)
A favorite, temporarily forgotten by some of us grown-ups.
“Are you anybody else’s missing piece?”
“Not that I know of.”
“Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?”
“I can be someone’s and still my own.”— Shel Silverstein, The Missing Piece
(Source: leslieleslie, via scherbratsky)
Damrosch: [Reading]: ‘Chapter One: I Am a Corpse. I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer knows what’s happened to me. As for that wretch, he felt for my pulse and listened for my breath to be sure I was dead, then he kicked me in the midriff, carried me to the edge of the well, raised me up and dropped me below. As I fell, my head, which he’d smashed with a stone, broke apart. My face, my forehead and cheeks were crushed, my bones shattered, and my mouth filled with blood.’
Göknar: It’s very graphic. I mean it’s maybe some of the most graphic phrases and words in the novel appear here. And it immediately draws the reader in. “I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.” And we want to know why.
Damrosch: The whole story revolves around a group of four artists. And it quickly becomes apparent that the murderer is one of the other three artists. And it takes the rest of the novel to figure out who did it.
(Source: learner.org)
