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Suess-y

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

I’ve had a difficult time with the audio assignments this week. I kept getting very frustrated with my tone and volume while talking that I must have read 5 different Suess books 20 times each aloud.

I finally settled on this version of Hop On Pop, by Dr. Suess.

I chose this book for a few reasons… It’s short. It’s hard to say. It’s funny. It’s illogical.

Anyway, I had a nice time with it. It’s a funny story when  you actually read it. The words and the rhythm of Dr. Suess is fun and admittedly very tongue-twisting.

I hope you enjoy my audio recording!

Below is also a transcript of what I’m saying… It does get hard to understand because the words are so similar.

UP PUP Pup is up.

CUP PUP Pup in cup.

PUP CUP Cup on pup

 

MOUSE HOUSE Mouse on house.

HOUSE MOUSE House on mouse.

 

ALL TALL We all are tall.

ALL SMALL We all are small.

ALL BALL We all play ball.

BALL WALL Up on a wall.

ALL FALL Fall off the wall.

 

DAY PLAY We play all day.

NIGHT FIGHT We fight all night.

 

HE ME He is after me.

HIM JIM Jim is after him.

SEE BEE We see a bee.

SEE BEE THREE Now we see three.

THREE TREE Three fish in a tree.

Fish in a tree? How can that be?

 

RED RED They call me Red.

RED BED I am in bed.

RED NED TED and ED in BED.

 

PAT PAT They call him Pat.

PAT SAT Pat sat on hat.

PAT CAT Pat sat on cat.

PAT BAT Pat sat on bat.

NO PAT NO Don’t sit on that.

 

SAD DAD BAD HAD Dad is sad.

Very, very sad.

He had a bad day. What a day Dad had!

 

THING THING What is that thing?

THING SING That thing can sing!

SONG LONG A long, long song.

Good-by, Thing. You sing too long.

 

WALK WALK We like to walk.

WALK TALK We like to talk.

 

HOP POP We like to hop.

We like to hop on top of Pop.

STOP You must not hop on Pop.

 

Mr. BROWN Mrs. BROWN

Mr. Brown upside down.

Pup up. Brown down.

Pup is down. Where is brown?

WHERE IS BROWN? THERE IS BROWN!

Mr. Brown is out of town.

 

BACK BLACK Brown came back.

Brown came back with Mr. Black.

SNACK SNACK Eat a snack.

Eat a snack with Brown and Black.

 

JUMP BUMP He jumped. He bumped.

FAST PAST He went past fast.

WENT TENT SENT He went into the tent.

I sent him out of the tent.

 

WET GET Two dogs get wet.

HELP YELP They yelp for help.

HILL WILL Will went up hill.

WILL HILL STILL Will is up hill still.

 

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

That one is my other brother.

My brothers read a little bit.

Little words like If and It.

My father can read big words too.

Like CONSTANTINOPLE and TIMBUKTOO.

 

SAY SAY What does this say?

seehemewe

patpuppop

hethreetreebee

tophopstop

Ask me tomorrow but not today.

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The Cat in the Hat, What is up with that?

Monday, June 25th, 2012

For this audio assignment we had to choose a book from our childhood and read it. So I decided to read, in my opinion one of the best books aside from Green Eggs and Ham, in all of history. I chose to read Dr. Seuss because out of all the books I could have possibly read, this book takes me on a journey. While reading Dr. Seuss I am truly able to escape the realities of the world and feel like a little kid again, and that is a wonderful thing. Another reason is that my Grandfather use to read this book to me all the time when I was younger, and now he reads it to my daughter…. So now I will read them to you :)  Part one (story time) Part 2 (Story time)

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Go Tom Go

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

Jumping into the ds106 audio, assignments, I wanted to take on ones that had few takers so far- and I remain stumped why Suess It was not given some ds106 attention:

Take a Dr. Suess book, or perhaps the Berenstain Bears, or one of your own favorites, and read it to us. Give me your best Yertle the Turtle, or Lorax, or Mama Bear and have fun!

Now just reading a book to me is not really doing ds106 in the “bring us your A Game” style- that would be just following the task literally. I think it should be done in an over the top (or under the bottom fashion). The choice of a book for me was easy, not juts because of my regular inclination to do something dog related, but because truly, Go Do Go was my all time favorite Seuss book as a kid. My copy was covered in crayon sketches (the clean one above was given to me as an adult, and I have kept the crayons away).

I do not have my copy with me, so I read as much from the book as Amazon had on their peek inside.

So here is my wobbly imitation of Tom Waits reading this book

The background music is from the internet archive- a live recording of Hillbilly Jazz in Nashville (1975). This was recorded directly into Audacity, with the music imported. I like using the envelope tool to vary the levels of music to have it fade in and out, and drop under the spoken voice.

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Go Tom Go!

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