Cat in the Hat 9

[CWren at DOE.K12.GA.US]

Kelly Jo, some of the things I've written are based on the -picture- in 
the book, not necessarily what the words say, or what I think is logical. 
(A cat in a hat with two pet Things flying kites inside a house?  Come 
on...   ::smile::)  In fact the balancing of the fish and boat on the L 
hand is NOT what I signed in the video, but it IS what is pictured in the 
book, and what I meant to sign.  And I can balance things on an L hand-- I 
just now did it with two post it note pads...  ::smile:: 

As for the angle of the hands for the tray...  go get a tray and put a 
glass of milk on it...  now bend over like you're going to balance it on 
your foot...  What angle are your hands at?  Its hard to see in the video, 
I have gone frame by frame thru that section multiple times and can't see 
it clearly, but that is the angle I am trying to write, probably 
unsuccessfully.  I think the wrist flex/rotation thing has shaken my 
confidence.  I -thought- I knew what I was doing!  It wouldn't be so hard 
if I used a different handshape, a flat O maybe...  its the A handshape 
that makes it difficult.

cherie
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Cherie Wren
GSD Staff Interpreter
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Cave Spring, GA 30124
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Hi Cherie & all -
I haven't had any time for editing lately, but I thought I'd take a stab 
at writing this one.  I've written my take on the part from "fish" to 
balancing the tray on the foot.  I made a couple of minor changes to some 
of the other signs, too.  For the foot motion, I've written the hip line 
and the raised right leg with the foot on the end without a movement 
symbol; and I changed the movement to two short double-stemmed arrows 
because I didn't see much motion when you put the tray down (plus it's 
easier to place the smaller arrows when there's so much going on).  I also 
changed the orientation of the handshapes holding the tray because it 
looked on the video like your hands were pretty close to straight 
horizontal there.  It's in SignPuddle as "KJ - Cat in the Hat 9"; you can 
see the other changes there in "balancing the fishbowl", "and", and 
"balancing the ship".

On the subject of the "balancing" signs, let me explain why I made the 
handshapes vertical even if your hands weren't exactly in that position. 
It's because they are "balancing" signs, and you can't balance something 
on a diagonal finger.  So, even if you couldn't make your hands vertical 
as you reached across your body (and I thought you came pretty close), I 
felt them to be more vertical than diagonal.

I think that's all I have to say about that . . . my version of "and" is 
just an alternative suggestion.  Either way works . . .
KJ


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Subject: [sw-l] Cat in the Hat 9
From: CWren at doe.k12.ga.us
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:52:48 -0400


 A major challenge in this one--  When the cat says he can hold the milk 
on a dish, I pick up my right foot, and through constructed action, place 
the tray with the milk on the foot, while I balance on the other one.  In 
the signwriting, I showed the torso movement, but not the foot movement, 
cuz I don't know how....  Does it need to be there?  There are several 
spots where torso action is important, and I am not sure I'm doing it 
correctly... 

I also had a devil of a time with the handshape/orientation for the tray 
itself.  It doesn't look right any way I tried it.  The palms are facing 
each other, thumbs forward away from the body, knuckles aiming mostly 
toward the ground and forward. 

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Cherie Wren
GSD Staff Interpreter
232 Perry Farm Rd
Cave Spring, GA 30124
706-777-2328
706-766-0766 Cell

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