{"id":5899,"date":"2011-05-26T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:04:18","slug":"bookofa-tcluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/bookofa-tcluster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of A"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Listen to Wes McNair Reading the Poem<\/strong>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/The-book-of-a-edited-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The Book of A<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Initial Exploration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Raised during the Depression, my stepfather<br>responded to the economic opportunity<br>of the 1950s by buying more<br>and more cheap, secondhand things<br>meant to transform his life.<br>\u201cI got this for a hundred bucks,\u201d<br>he said, patting the tractor that listed <br>to one side, or the dump truck that started <br>with a roar and wouldn&#8217;t dump. <br>Spreading the parts out on his tarp, <br>he&#8217;d make the strange whistle<br>he said he learned from the birds<br>for a whole morning<br>before the silence set in.<br>Who knows where he picked up<br>the complete A-Z encyclopedias,<br>embossed in gold and published<br>in 1921? \u201cThey were going to take these<br>tot the dump,\u201d he said. Night after night<br>he sat up, determined to understand<br>everything under the sun<br>worth knowing, and falling asleep<br>over the book of A. Meanwhile, as the weeks,<br>then the months passed, the moon<br>went on rising over the junk machines<br>in the tall grass of the only<br>world my stepfather ever knew,<br>and nobody wrote to classify<br>his odd, beautiful whistle, formed,<br>somehow, in the back of his throat<br>when a new thing seemed just about to happen<br>and no words he could say expressed his hope.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 1<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp1-808x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12311\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp1-808x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp1-808x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp1-808x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp1-808x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 1<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr1-808x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12312\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr1-808x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr1-808x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr1-808x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr1-808x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transitions and Structure<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 2<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp2-808x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12313\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp2-808x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp2-808x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp2-808x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp2-808x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 2<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr2-808x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12314\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr2-808x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr2-808x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr2-808x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr2-808x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Endings and Line Breaks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 3<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp3-798x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12315\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp3-798x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp3-798x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp3-798x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-nbp3-798x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 3<br><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr3-798x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12316\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr3-798x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr3-798x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr3-798x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/bookofa-ovr3-798x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5899\" data-postid=\"5899\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5899 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image and audio objects for teaching the poem &#8220;The Book of A&#8221; 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