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 <riccib...@yahoo.com> 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
