NAEB Newsletter (September 15, 1939)

feBB Mews Letter.•.Sept 15, 1959 Pag© 5 complete incident from either a well-known story on the reading list 3 or a now book; and the Incident is not of the continued serial type 9 wherein the locomotive is left plunging through the bridge, and you are fold to go and read the book to accomplish the ending for yourself. Rather, w© feel that in presenting a complete Incident with th© suggestion that since there are other Incidents just as appealing, just as interesting, the child will have had a pleasurable experience in the listening period; and it has been our happy experience that there has bean a multitudinous run on th© book at the library immediately following the broadcast* In the broadcast handbook accompany¬ ing this series, five or ois; other books of similar them© are suggested, and the branch libraries endeavor to keep a radio bookshelf of these bocks on hand * "Th© third program for fifth and sixth grad© is another Chicagoland program entitled, Makers of Chicago. Here we take each week a different national fly hr racial group which makes up part of our great metropolitan center® One week it 1 a th© Mexicans; another week., the Chinese; a third weak, th© Lithuanians, and son, and on* "Let’s take one of the programs, for example,--on® on Mexico® In a school located close to Hull House, which is now th© center of a great Mexican neighborhood, we have a group of children who will practice three Mexican folk songs which they will sing in Spanish on th© program. The.se ar© catchy tunes, and because they ar® children singing them, the children listening have a spontaneous rapport established which provides a bit of very happy color® Than, we have gone to the Mexican consul and as lead hie cooperation in selecting someone to b© interviewed on two phases of Mexican life; on©, an anecdote, or legendary story concerning th© native'land* In this case, the consul himself will be interviewed on the program, and is going to tell th© story of th© eagle and the serpent guiding the Aztecs to a permanent abode at Tenoch tit lan in that fabulous lake valley saucer wherein is located th© City of Mexico* Then, th© interviewer proceeds to develop a second phase of th© interview with the Mexican consul — namely, by questions on such things as where th© Mexican neighborhoods are, in and about Chicago; when th© Mexican® cam.© to Chicago; and in what capacity; and what have th© Mexicans contributed- to the construction of Chicago? You can apply your own thinking to th© potentialities of this program. "Then, moving into the upper group — th© seventh and eighth grad© program — of the elementary school, we present fiv© programs, again purely a© a choice, for th® teacher to select one or possibly two which"fit her needs as content within the personnel of her class® These programs, again, are: "Science — this one entitled the Scie nce Reporter , a series of programs wherein we tell the story of magneTs^ tree rings, pre¬ cipitation, the solar system, and so on, and follow it with a special demonstration at one of our great service museums, to which are invited two members of each listening class* These students come down on a later day of that week; attend the demonstration; handle the objects assembled for that purpose; make notes; and return to their respective listening classes and retail in their own language and in their own way, the further enrichment which they have obtained