Everyday Adventures and Updated Fables
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Ferris, Charles
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1963 , 1963?
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This is a pamphlet of 32 pages. The first twelve pages present one-hundred-and-fifteen Everyday Adventures. These are two or three line cases from school life. They present a strange amalgam of the very traditional and the almost modern. Case 12 has Fred fearing that he will get pantsed at school. In #13, a friend shows Grace how to use an aqualung. She puts in on and swims to the bottom of the pool! In #16, Kevin has been out of school for a week with the flu; when he returns, he begins to feel sick again. The cases present normal human embarrassments--and some situations we would see differently now. 62. Charlene was in the art supply room getting paper. When the teacher came in, he leaned over and kissed her. The larger portion of the book is made up of seventeen Up Dated Fables, one to a page, hailed as Charlie's famous one-page plays. For most, it is easy to identify the Aesopic fable behind the modern dramatic parallel from everyday life. The Fox and the Crow has its own dash of spirit: a student praises a teacher and exclaims how much he enjoys reading books for her class. Then he asks for an extension on a book report…. Look Before You Leap presents a clever white lie. The best for me is GGE: a student using another student to draw his assigned maps complains once too often and finds his latest map being ripped up by its maker. Make your own for a change is his last word.
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Charles Ferris
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6149 (Access ID)