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Seussology

Seussology. Presented by Rhonda Mueller Mother, Grandmother, Teacher and Self-Proclaimed Seussologist. Who Was Theodore Giesel. Not the Cat in the Hat. Theo LeSieg Rosetta Stone Dr. Seuss - to please his father, did eventually earn a doctorate from Dartmouth.

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Seussology

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  1. Seussology Presented by Rhonda Mueller Mother, Grandmother, Teacher and Self-Proclaimed Seussologist

  2. Who Was Theodore Giesel

  3. Not the Cat in the Hat • Theo LeSieg • Rosetta Stone • Dr. Seuss - to please his father, did eventually earn a doctorate from Dartmouth

  4. German Family in Springfield Mass. • Brewers • Zooers • Gymnast and Swimmers • Shooters • Bakers • Great great Grossvater

  5. Artist and avid reader at an early age

  6. Read the same book over and over again

  7. Made friends by creating humorous drawings and writing

  8. Art Teacher Not Impressed • Never break the rules

  9. Early Years • Wrote and edited for newspapers • The Mikado • Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night • Wrote his own play • Jazz musician • Director • Dartmouth • Oxford • Edited humor magazine

  10. Dartmouth • Jewish - prejudice • Least likely to succeed

  11. England • Helen • Draw

  12. Cartoonist

  13. Boredom - not busy enough • Wrote his first children’s book - an ABC book with unusual animals.

  14. And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street - 1936 • Ship trip • Chance meeting • Vanguard • Loved writing for children and Gus

  15. Kindergarten and First Grade • What would you see on Elliott Street?

  16. Hats on the train

  17. Infamous for Making Up Stories About Story Ideas • Stories came in many ways • Puzzling his puzzler • Thinking cap • Left field • Arizona desert • Why is it always rain ? Soldier in France • Horton, from Mulberry street, which came first the Who or the Egg?

  18. Generating Ideas

  19. McElligot’s Pool • Found his own look • Expensive to print • Caldecott

  20. Finding Own Style

  21. Bartholomew • One color • Caldecott

  22. If I Ran the Zoo • Caldecott

  23. Gerald McBoing-Boing • Animated • Oscar • CBS 13 episodes • Overall films a flop • Writing and illustrating

  24. From LaJolla • Sneetches • Africa, think please • Horton Hears Who • Oh, The Thinks You Can Think • May 1954, Life article, illiterate adults, TV and comics partly to blame

  25. The year of the Grinch • 12 years • One week

  26. One Work Through Time Grinch

  27. Grinch

  28. Grinch

  29. Grinch

  30. Grinch

  31. Year of the Cat • 1957 - new era in children’s books • Life magazine criticized Dick and Jane • Friend’s suggestion • 223 easy to read words • First two words on the list • Schools didn’t buy

  32. Beginner Books • LeSieg didn’t author • 50 dollar challenge

  33. First Priority • Funny • Dictionary of animals helped in many books • Rhyme and His toughest Audience • FEAR of Public Speaking

  34. WWII, laughing and training

  35. Always a Jokester • Fishing with Vater • Class clown • Naval Officer • Biggest Joke, His own children, Chrysanthemum-Pearl

  36. Pulitzer 1984 • Best Seller for Adults • 2 titles • Butter Battle • Your Only Old Once

  37. WW III • Mouth cancer • Butter Battle Book, 1984 • Test and treatments, Obsolete children • Gone is the yellow-faced Chinaman • 1990 New York Times Best Seller, for adults again

  38. Other Famous Works • Cat in the Hat • Audrey is UPSET • Zax - political hardliner • Horton Hears a Who - Atomic Bomb

  39. Post-humous • My Many Colored Days • Diffendoofer

  40. Using Seuss in the classroom • Lists of Made Up Rhyming Words • Alliteration • Difference Between Real and Make-Believe • Bullying, Prejudice, Environmental Issues at an Appropriate Level • Seussianary • Thinks • Glunks • Increasing Comprehension • Increasing Fluency

  41. AT hats • Gross grub on green - Green Eggs • Daisy Hats • Star Art • Finishing the Lorax - what happens to the seed • I Won’t Be a Star Bellied Sneetch • Not on any Beach • If I Ran the Zoo - imaginanimals • Seussanary • Tantilizing Tongue Twisters

  42. More Uses - Even for Older Students • Poetic Style • Moral of the Story • Underlying/Implied Meanings • Visual Implications • Accessing Imagination • Generating Ideas • Model For Own Writing • Inspiration

  43. High School • Yertle the Turtle - Sympathy for the underdog, Yertle is Hitler • Sneetches - tolerance, civil rights • Lorax - ecological awareness • Butter Battle - nuclear arms race

  44. Using Seuss at home • Read • Teach • Learn • Laugh • Imagine • Play - YES PLAY, with words

  45. Dr. Seuss Language • “Here” • “You can’t be here, I am here. You are there!” • Playing with language

  46. BUT don’t Underestimate the BEST Reasons to Use Dr. Seuss • JUST FOR FUN

  47. University of California San Diego

  48. Accomplishments • 48 books • More than 200 million copies • 20 different languages • Postage stamps • Movies of his books • Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden • Geisel Library in LaJolla • Oscar • Pulitzer • Caldecott

  49. Greatest Gift • W all need fun and laughter • Your children hear what you say, what can be better than saying it in an enjoyable setting? • Hold onto the magic of childhood

  50. Words of Wisdom left • “Whenever things are a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself: ‘You can do better than this.’ The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: ‘We can do and we’ve got to do better than this.’”

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