Sector7|
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Clarion Books, 1999 |
Students
at Salisbury University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland designed the project
examining Wordless Picturebooks, which is presented on this page. The primary
audience for the materials on this page is elementary school teachers.
We have included book
talks (which is
designed to entice students into reading the book), author
and illustrator studies
(which can benefit student interaction with text in so many ways, not least
of which the realization that individuals like them actually write books
-- they do not just magically appear in bookstores), suggestions for activities(an
excellent asset for any teacher), a list
of related books,
and finally a list
of websites related
to the author and the novel.
Sector
7
In Sector 7, readers will
be wisped away in visual awe due to the cinematic illustrations created
by David Wiesner.The
story is about a young boy who is on a class trip to the Empire State Building
in New York City. While onthe
top observation deck the young boy's red scarf and hat are blown onto puffy
cloud figure, whose facecoincidentally
resembles Casper the Ghost. After befriending the cloud figure the
boy is then transported to Sector 7and
the Cloud Dispatch Center, which closely resembles a train station where
clouds arrive and depart. The boy isthen
shown how the clouds are shaped by using individual plans; upon this discovery
the young boy designs a fish usingthe
clouds. The dispatchers from Sector 7 become outraged and ban the
young boy from the Cloud City. Upon being banned the boy is then
transported back to his class trip by his cloud friend. As the young
boy gets on the bus,people
all over the city stop, glare at their great city sky, and wonder what
they see.
In David Wiesner's high schooldays,
he made silent movies and created wordless comic books. Major source of
Wiesner's inspiration came from television, such as being eight years old
watching Bugs Bunny.He was also
inspired by library.He would spend
hours in a public New Jersey library looking at series of books about great
artists.David Wiesner quoted, "Once
again my own imagery traveled to unusual places, and took me along."
David
Wiesner has written and illustrated several children's books.Among
all of them, here is a list of a few:
Free
Fall (1988)
The
Three Little Pigs (2001)
Hurricane
(1990)
June
29, 1999 (1992)
The
Loathsome Dragon (1987)
Moo! (1996)
Sector
7 (1997)
Tuesday
(1991)
After
reading Sector 7, we had the students make their own cloud shapes using
cotton balls and construction paper.To
make this activity go smoothly, we set all necessary materials ready for
the children.We also lined the table
with newspaper, so that the kids can get as creative as they wanted.
Sector
7
Language Arts
- Write story for book by using pictures; Write about a favorite field
trip
Social Studies - Fun facts about the Empire State Building
Science - Cloud watching; Studying different kinds of clouds
and how they're formed
Art - Cotton ball cloud shapes
Math - Find the dimensions of the Empire State Building
Tuesday
Language Arts - Writing story for book by using pictures; Write
a related story using the illustrations on the last page about the pigs;
Write a story telling about where you would go if you were a frog in the
book
Social Studies - Find out what the role of an investigator is,
take on that role, and come up with questions to ask about the story
Science - Studying frogs and their life cycle
Art - Drawing the pictures for the pig story (the take-off from
the end of the story) Children could also create frog puppets out of paper
bags to recreate the scenes from the story.
Math - Counting the number of frogs in the book
Time
Flies
Language Arts - Write a story for the book using the pictures
Social Studies - Time, history, and geography of dinosaurs and
where fossils are found
Science - Researching and studying different kinds of dinosaurs
Art - Make up own dinosaur; Draw a part of the book that you
liked best and tell why
Math - Timeline of dinosaur era
Time
Flies by
Eric Rohmann, 1997
Tuesday by
David Wiesner, 1991
Zoom by
Istvan Banyai, 1995
Carl Goes Shopping by
Alexandra Day, 1989
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David
Wiesner A Critical Essay by Leonard S. Marcus http://www.nccil.org/exhibit/wiesner.html
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David
Wiesner Activities http://www.nccil.org/children/wiesner01.html
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Carol
Hurst http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/tuesday.html
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David
Wiesner http://www.eduplace.com/catalog/la/products/c00884.html
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Official
Empire State Building Site http://www.esbnyc.com
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Website
on Clouds and various Pictures http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu
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