Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faith-Ringgold.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/24/2000 Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is a remarkable African American artist and writer, and Black History Month is a good time for every child to become familiar, if they aren’t already, with her stunning work. Her artistic career began with pictures that drew their […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/African-American-Dick-and-Jane.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/18/2000 Dick and Jane Transcript The Dick and Jane readers that most baby boomers and pre-boomers learned their alphabets from first appeared in 1930. The idea was the brainchild of Zerna Sharp, a reading consultant, who thought that children could best learn how to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/African-Lullabies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/15/2000 African Lullaby Transcript In the liner notes for her remarkable new CD, African Lullaby, producer Shana Dressler refers this ancient musical form as “love songs for children.” And of course she is right — there is something that calls to the heart of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Valentines-Poems.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/14/2000 Kids’ Valentine’s Poems Transcript Several years ago I gave a talk about writing for the children at an elementary school, just a few days after Valentine’s Day. I happened to have my idea book with me, which I showed to them. In it […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fresh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/4/2000 Fresh Transcript In Boaz Yakin’s award-winning film, “Fresh,” we watch with fascination and growing dread as Michael, whose nickname is “Fresh,” the 12-year-old hero of this gritty urban fairy tale, begins to play a dangerous game of deception in which he pits two […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Norman-Rockwells-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/3/2000 Norman Rockwell’s Children Transcript For the next several years, a remarkable exhibit of the paintings of Norman Rockwell will be touring the country. The exhibit began in Atlanta and now is moving to Chicago, then Washington, D.C., San Diego, Phoenix, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Federal-Theater-Project.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/28/2000 Federal Theater Project Transcript The recent film by Tim Robbins, “Cradle Will Rock,” which has been receiving a great deal of attention in the past weeks, is based on a musical by Marc Blitzstein about the workers’ right to strike that was not […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Littlest-49ers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/24/2000 The Littlest 49ers Transcript Gold was discovered this morning on the American River in California in 1848, on a construction site for a saw mill that was being built for John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had become, in the ten years since […]
That’s the opening to one of Danny Kaye’s best-known songs from the 1952 movie in which Kaye starred as the 19th Danish storyteller.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Smoking-Again.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/10/2000 Up in Smoke Transcript I was tuned in to The Real World one night and it suddenly struck me that everyone in the cast of MTV’s hit show about the supposedly “real” lives of young people today was smoking. Not awkward, peer bonding […]