Need something else? Enter a keyword below to search my 250+ posts. I’ll be glad to help you do this project with your own students. If you’d like a copy of the worksheet I made for this project, please leave me a comment on my contact page or leave a comment below. The next time you need a break from the regular routine, consider introducing your students to Braille to expose them to something new. In addition, they seemed to enjoy the break from the day-to-day reading and writing that makes up a large portion of my British Literature classes. Overall, my students were intrigued by trying something new and were surprised at the complexity of this task. No, producing Braille text does not meet an English or ELA standard in my classes, but if empathy for the visually impaired were a standard, my students would have mastered it for sure!
In the image on the right, you can see the translation. On the left is a closeup of one’s student’s two lines from Paradise Lost. Also, our punctuation wasn’t 100 percent, but for an initial introduction to this global coding system, I think they did pretty well. Some of the one-dot cells that denote capital letters had been inadvertently omitted. For example, some of the letters were incorrect. His left finger is the one that actually decodes all those dots.įor the most part, my seniors produced some admirable and readable coding. He holds his right index finger stationary alongside his left index finger to keep it aligned on the row of cells. To read Braille, the pads of Finley’s index fingers work in unison to feel their way, cell by cell, over each word. The final step was inviting Finley Mabary, his brother Ralph, and their mother Ashley, to my classes to try their hands at reading the Braille. Finley Mabary and his brother Ralph enjoyed visiting my high school seniors to check their Braille translations. Then they handwrote or typed out those same lines in English (as a sort of key) and attached them under the Braille sheet. Once students finished embossing with the stylus, they cut out their lines and then mounted them on construction paper. The board displays the two lines of Paradise Lost that each student reproduced in Braille. Here’s the bulletin board I made at the completion of the project. the night though blindness the doctors had asked him to avoid hard study. He had strained his eyes by reading late into. Without a doubt, writing backward and reversing cells of dots was tedious and time-consuming! It is one of the first references by Milton to his blindness. The room was quiet as students workedĭuring the project, my students were engaged and the room was silent with concentration as they worked. It was rather interesting and helpful.Over the course of two class periods, students used the graphing sheet to plan out and emboss their lines from Paradise Lost in Braille. In my searching I found somone else who was facinated by this and wrote a column about it. Identical twins, 'cept for their parents.
In unkown graves, marked "Hare Nor" "Hide" "We thought the swords were just plain toys" The blind judge noticed, they were both subdued. They drew their swords, and shot each other. In the middle of the day, one dark night,īoth their mothers, in a state of fright. Until finally their bodies hit bottom and dropped. Through a knothole in a wooden brick wall. One bright day in the middle of the night, Let me tell you a story I don't really know. Please come if you can't if you can, stay at home. Wear your best clothes if you haven't any. There's a Mother's Day meeting for fathers only
To tell you something I know nothing about. Ladies and jellyspoons, hobos and tramps,Ĭross-eyed mosquitos and bow-legged ants, The famous speaker who no one had heard of said: One bright day, in the middle of the night two dead boys got up to fight Let me tell you a story I don't really know : To tell you something I know nothing about!Īdmission is free, you must pay at the door I have collected some of the more interesting and deviant versions of this verse below. The version above appers to be the most simple (and most common) variant. It is given various titles including, but not limited to: " Two Dead Boys", " One Bright Day", " The Backward Rhyme", " Contradiction Poem", and " The Paradox Poem". This thing is getting passed from person to person and changed ( for better or for worse). One quick web search and I soon realized that there were no less than two dozen different versions of this poem. After all I have the power of Everything2 and Google on my side. I returned to my room determined to unravel this mystery. most especially obscure and insane things. Gah!!! What manner of insanity is this? How do I not know about this? That is my function. When all of a sudden my two friends start reciting the poem above at a very high rate of speed. The discussion is the standard one about military inteligence that everyone has. So one evening at dinner a discussion of oxymorons and paradoxes came up.
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