The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

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This wordless book has some great pictures that can make great stories. For any little writers out there, this will certainly spark the imagination and give ideas for stories. Me recordó lo mágicas que pueden ser las formas y las palabras cuando de usan correctamente o en conjunto.

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The only named characters are found in the preface, an introductory letter, in the beginning of the book. There are many different characters in the pictures but none of their names are given. Have the children use ideas they have written in their notebooks to write stories of their own. When they are finished, ask them to illustrate what they have written. This original picture book will be a welcome creative writing and storytelling tool for children and adults of all ages. I just read the entire Chris Van Allsburg collection today, and I feel that since it was multiple picture books I’ll count them all as one single entry in my reading challenge.Este es un libro con micro cuentos increíbles, acompañados de ilustraciones asombrosas. Todo me dejó perplejo, las 14 historias y los 14 dibujos. Todo es maravilloso. A man and a boy are on a bridge at night. The man is holding a lantern and a schooner is beginning to appear on the water from the fog. Carry out an investigation into the differing responses to Chris Van Allsburg’s illustrations dependent of viewers’ ages, ranging from young children, to peers and then adults within the school How does the letter Chris Van Allsburg writes to readers affect the way we read the book? How would our experience of reading the book be different if we skipped reading the letter? Enticed to come up with their own endings, readers will marvel at the mystery behind these lasting drawings and the charm of an everchanging narrative.

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Chris Van Allsburg often writes stories in which unusual things happen in very normal-seeming situations—like the ocean liner pushing through the Venice canal. Can you think of other books, either by Van Allsburg or by other authors, in which unusual things happen in everyday places? We looked through this in bed and the nephew made up some stories to go with the pictures. For not having robots in the pictures, they had a whole lot of monsters in them. The next day, I made some copies of the pictures and we sat down and they had to write a story based off one of the pictures. I had to scribe for the nephew. Some of the images do evoke a sense of danger in them. 'Under The Rug' shows a man ready to hit whatever is under the rug coming for him. Looking at 'Mr. Linden's Library,' the vines coming out the book are very ominous along with the caption stating it's now too late for the girl asleep next to the book.I read it when I was 9 or 10 years old for a school project. I remember being really creeped out by the pictures, but also really fascinated. I recently discovered it again, and it's just as eerie as I remember it to be. Each one is creepy and strange and there's so much ambiguity and ah. So cool. So much imagination. I love it. After having practiced this activity as a class, divide your students into groups of four or five and have them choose a different idea from the book to tell as a small group. Have groups present their stories to one another.

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All the publisher is left with is the illustrations with a title and caption for each picture, leaving the reader to use their imagination to create the story behind the picture and connect the stories together. Model for your students either on the overhead or on chart paper how you might go about beginning a list of story ideas. “I might ask myself, ‘What ideas have been bouncing around in my head lately that I haven’t had a chance to write?'” you may say — thinking aloud so your students can observe the process you are going through. Write a couple of ideas, modeling how you don’t necessarily need to write complete sentences when you are making notes to yourself. “A boy finds magic shoes in his grandmother’s attic — they make it so he can jump over trees.” “A little girl’s collection of plastic farm animals comes to life after midnight.” Use your own story-starter ideas to inspire your students to think creatively when recording their own ideas. Invite students to create their mysterious drawings and captions by providing a caption for them to create their own drawing I must say that Under the Rug is the one that unnerves me the most. What is under the rug??? We will never know, hahaha).

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Ask your students to carry their notebooks around for a week and write down ideas when they feel inspired. Have them share their ideas with one another. Discuss how it felt to catch an idea right away—did they find that they began having more ideas? Or remembering more ideas?