I agree. It's a good idea that I leave that out!
Melissa ------------------------------ On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 8:28 PM EST Vinyl Visions wrote: >You might not want to mention the elephant execution either... 😉 > >> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:01:46 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :) >> >> Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was >> very hard on employees and paid a low working wage and fired most who >> disagreed with him. He had a strange view-almost myopic view about art, the >> people that produced it and music. If it didn't fit his view or like he >> simply dismissed it as inferior. And just like his good friend Henry Ford >> he was very anti-Semitic. >> >> Both men are viewed as great and in many cases they were-both both had some >> major flaws. >> Abe Feder >> >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Melissa Ricci <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello Everybody, >> > As many of you know, I am a middle school music/band teacher and I always >> > run a unit about Edison and the phonograph. We always end the unit by >> > recording on a wax cylinder. >> > For the first time in many years, I am teaching two 6th grade general >> > music classes along with my band classes this year. Today was the first >> > time I approached the topic of Thomas A. Edison. To see where the class was >> > with their present knowledge of Edison, I broke the kids into groups and >> > asked them to write down everything they knew or thought they knew about >> > him. >> > Here is what the majority of the class wrote down: >> > 1. Edison was the 2nd, 3rd or 16th president of the United States. We're >> > not sure which.2. Edison was originally from England.3. Edison's face is on >> > the $20.00 bill.4. Edison was a male.5. Edison probably had a wife and >> > might have had children.6. Edison died a very long, long, long time ago.7. >> > Edison helped to write the constitution.8. Edison had very long, wild >> > hair.9. Edison was very old. >> > >> > One student surprised me by writing that Edison invented the first talking >> > doll. I was amazed so I asked her where she had learned that information. >> > It turns our that it was on a recent episode of a TV show called >> > "Oddities". Who says TV can't teach! >> > Obviously, I plan on starting at the very beginning of Edison's life and >> > of course his many inventions of which not even the light bulb was >> > mentioned. >> > If any of you have any words of wisdom or little known/especially >> > interesting facts about Edison, please let me know. I plan on going pretty >> > in depth with these kids so anything I can learn will only help me capture >> > their interest and put these misconceptions to rest once and for all. >> > Thanks!Melissa >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Phono-L mailing list >> > http://phono-l.org >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org > >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
