Background Knowledge/ Schema

2015

August 8, 1969

Poem -- Nancy Hanks

Nancy Hanks
by Rosemary Benét

If Nancy Hanks
Came back as a ghost
Seeking news
Of what she loved most,
She’d ask first
“Where’s my son?
What’s happened to Abe?
What’s he done?

“Poor little Abe,
Left all alone
Except for Tom,
Who’s a rolling stone:
He was only nine
The year I died.
I remember still
How hard he cried.

“Scraping along
In a little shack,
With hardly a shirt
To cover his back,
And a prairie wind
To blow him down
Or pinching times
If he went to town.

“You wouldn’t know
About my son?
Did he grow tall?
Did he have fun?
Did he learn to read?
Did he get to town?
Do you know his name?
Did he get on?”

Night At the Museum 2

Night At the Museum 2
My daughter and her friend (Emily^2) and I went to see the movie, Night At the Museum 2 today. My daughter says to say that "It was a hoot!"

This movie is fun and funny as it is, but a little background knowledge (also called schema) could it make it even better. If you're going, see if you already know about these people, creatures, art, and events from history:

Custer's Last Stand
The Tuskegee Airmen http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/
The Thinker (statue)
Motorola -- though there was no Joey Motorola
Amelia Earhart
Aviation History
Al Capone
Ancient Egypt -- Pharaohs, Underworld, Jaffa Kree (Stargate -- My daughter is making a Text-to-text connection)
Ivan the Terrible
Napoleon
The VJ Day Kiss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vj_day_kiss.jpg
American Gothic
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein (not as a bobble-head)
monkeys in space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_3725000/3725961.stm
http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-nasa-monkeys-in-space-52809,0,4582961.story
The Wright Brothers
and
The Jonas Brothers!

and of course
Theodore Roosevelt
Sacajawea
Attila the Hun
Roman Legionnaires
tyrannosaurus rex