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In a message dated 1/19/03 2:40:37 PM, love-it-here@... writes:
<< Somebody will probably tell me that there is
educational value in the Simpson's too!!! >>
TONS.
You could talk to Holly for hours and be amazed. She's a font of
connections.
But it goes both ways. The more kids know about history, culture, geography,
movies, music, religion, musicals, etc., the more Simpsons jokes they'll get.
But gradually as they see and hear all kinds of things, the patterns start
to form up about what the whole world, past and present, involve, and what's
funny, and what some people think is too important to laugh about.
Yesterday we were talking about "embiggens," a word having to do with
Jedediah Springfield, a famous pioneer and founder of their town, and about
the time Lisa discovered he wasn't what he claimed to have been. We were
talking about whether it was a real word. It's not a real word, but it
follows real-word rules, and it makes sense. And "enlarges" can sometimes
mean the same, but "enlarge" can also mean to set free from prison, as it
does in the treason scene of Henry V.
We also talked about how important myths are to people sometimes, and that
Lisa figured the good that came from people idealizing the guy was better
than the letdown they would get from the truth. They would not be
"embiggened."
The theme song, from the end of that episode:
Jebediah Springfield Theme" (Episode 3F13, Lisa the Iconoclast)
It's that team of Jebediah Springfield
Whip those horses, let that wagon roll
That a people might embiggen America
That a man might embiggen his soul, his soul, his souuuul!
More Simpsons Lyrics
http://www.geocities.com/cambellclan/songs.html
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
"I never heard the word 'embiggen' until I moved to Springfield."
"Why not? It's a perfectly cromulent word."
("Cromulent" is another Simpsons-word.)
Sandra
<< Somebody will probably tell me that there is
educational value in the Simpson's too!!! >>
TONS.
You could talk to Holly for hours and be amazed. She's a font of
connections.
But it goes both ways. The more kids know about history, culture, geography,
movies, music, religion, musicals, etc., the more Simpsons jokes they'll get.
But gradually as they see and hear all kinds of things, the patterns start
to form up about what the whole world, past and present, involve, and what's
funny, and what some people think is too important to laugh about.
Yesterday we were talking about "embiggens," a word having to do with
Jedediah Springfield, a famous pioneer and founder of their town, and about
the time Lisa discovered he wasn't what he claimed to have been. We were
talking about whether it was a real word. It's not a real word, but it
follows real-word rules, and it makes sense. And "enlarges" can sometimes
mean the same, but "enlarge" can also mean to set free from prison, as it
does in the treason scene of Henry V.
We also talked about how important myths are to people sometimes, and that
Lisa figured the good that came from people idealizing the guy was better
than the letdown they would get from the truth. They would not be
"embiggened."
The theme song, from the end of that episode:
Jebediah Springfield Theme" (Episode 3F13, Lisa the Iconoclast)
It's that team of Jebediah Springfield
Whip those horses, let that wagon roll
That a people might embiggen America
That a man might embiggen his soul, his soul, his souuuul!
More Simpsons Lyrics
http://www.geocities.com/cambellclan/songs.html
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
"I never heard the word 'embiggen' until I moved to Springfield."
"Why not? It's a perfectly cromulent word."
("Cromulent" is another Simpsons-word.)
Sandra
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In a message dated 1/19/03 4:49:24 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< << Somebody will probably tell me that there is
educational value in the Simpson's too!!! >> >>
Trevor says he learned "don't get drunk and go into a movie theatre" (because
you'll keep repeating what they say over and over and everyone will tell you
to shut up:)
He learned "don't talk about the key parts of a movie as you're walking out"
(all the people waiting to go in will have the movie ruined for them)
See, you can learn stuff from the Simpsons!! hehe
Actually, where those kind of shows pay off, is in the conversations they
spark and lead to who knows where. I think one of the episodes had Cuban
cigars in it, which leads to conversations about why we have sanctions
against Cuba, Fidel Castro etc.... (there's your history/social studies bent
on it)
And the other night, we learned about what a Grifter is. Trevor is gaining
quite a vocabulary from tv!! Even the Simpsons.
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
[email protected] writes:
<< << Somebody will probably tell me that there is
educational value in the Simpson's too!!! >> >>
Trevor says he learned "don't get drunk and go into a movie theatre" (because
you'll keep repeating what they say over and over and everyone will tell you
to shut up:)
He learned "don't talk about the key parts of a movie as you're walking out"
(all the people waiting to go in will have the movie ruined for them)
See, you can learn stuff from the Simpsons!! hehe
Actually, where those kind of shows pay off, is in the conversations they
spark and lead to who knows where. I think one of the episodes had Cuban
cigars in it, which leads to conversations about why we have sanctions
against Cuba, Fidel Castro etc.... (there's your history/social studies bent
on it)
And the other night, we learned about what a Grifter is. Trevor is gaining
quite a vocabulary from tv!! Even the Simpsons.
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com