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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Carolyn Karis <ckari@URBANSCHOOL.ORG>
Subject: Re(2): Checking In!
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Sybil,
Thanks for the kind words. Deborah and I are continuing to work on the
project. Our immediate goal for revision is March 15 since we're doing a
presentation at CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools).
It's been fun reading all of the reports on dissemination and snaring
ideas.
Carolyn
kcms@ionet.net writes:
>What a wonderful project. I am most impressed by it and plan to share it
>with some of our teachers. One of the topics reminded me of something I
>just have to share with you. I work part time at a local community
>college
>as ref. librarian on Sundays. Many of our patrons are students from the
>area schools. One day a mother brought her son in to do research (due
>Mon.
>of course). He told me his subject was the fox in the desert. After
>showing him the animal encyclopedias, he said that wouldn't work. I asked
>him if his fox was known by another name. His reply--the desert fox or
>rommel. He could also do his report on the flying tiger. His mother and
>I
>cracked up and I showed them material on WWII. Never a dull moment
>working
>with kids. Sybil
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