Captain Scrimshaw in Space: Language Through Drama
Registered by anathema-device of Wien Bezirk 20 - Brigittenau, Wien Austria on 12/27/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by anathema-device from Wien Bezirk 20 - Brigittenau, Wien Austria on Tuesday, December 27, 2011
"Rescued" from our English Bookshop that's about to close its doors forever.
TBR before I decide what to do with it next.
TBR before I decide what to do with it next.
Lovely idea for a short play to act out with schoolchildren.
Now I really feel like making papier mâché masks! ;))
Journal Entry 3 by anathema-device at OBCZ Café Scherbe in Graz, Steiermark Austria on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (1/12/2012 UTC) at OBCZ Café Scherbe in Graz, Steiermark Austria
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be released at today's meetup.
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What's bookcrossing? It's a recycling game. It's the karma of books. You read the book, or pass it along to someone you think can appreciate it, or simply release it in a good place to be found again. Whatever you do, please leave an entry in this online journal so we can all follow its travels.
Thanks, and enjoy! :)
Journal Entry 4 by linguistkris at Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, January 14, 2012
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"Scrimshaw" is one of my favourite words, and what's not to like with science fiction school plays? So naturally, I had to read this book. I took a short time-out to read this during our meeting at Café Scherbe, so it's still on the OBCZ shelf, though.
Captain Scrimshaw is the most irresponsible and vain spaceship commander ever (think Zap Brannigan, minus the sex obsession), but on his most recent trip to the moon, he has to discover there is a class of school children that accidentally got stowed away on his ship, and to complicate matters further, he is wildly off course...
A short and quirky play for younger readers, there isn't anything much in either plot or language to keep an older reader's attention, but I imagine this would actually work really well in the classroom. Also, I rather enjoyed the illustrator's obsession with noses. :p
Größres mag sich anderswo begeben,
Als bei uns in unserm kleinen Leben,
Neues - hat die Sonne nie gesehn.
Sehn wir doch das Große aller Zeiten
Auf den Brettern, die die Welt bedeuten,
Sinnvoll, still an uns vorübergehn.
Had to let another great one speak to express the awe I felt when reading this play. Everything is perfect: the plot, the dialogue, the characters, setting, intended audience and the costumes. And -- maybe most importantly -- the length.
Als bei uns in unserm kleinen Leben,
Neues - hat die Sonne nie gesehn.
Sehn wir doch das Große aller Zeiten
Auf den Brettern, die die Welt bedeuten,
Sinnvoll, still an uns vorübergehn.
Had to let another great one speak to express the awe I felt when reading this play. Everything is perfect: the plot, the dialogue, the characters, setting, intended audience and the costumes. And -- maybe most importantly -- the length.
