Transcript of Dialogue on 11-05-03
Frog and Toad: Dragons and Giants
Question 1: Can you describe what brave looks like?
- Graciella: When you’re afraid of something you can look brave. The squirrel running around my house scared me.
- Gracie: Graciella looked brave when the squirrel scared her.
- Graciella: (after instructions to show what a brave face looks like) My brave face is nice but I wanted to see everyone else’s- I thought mine would be too brave. Maybe even funny.
Question 2: How does Frog know when he is being brave? How do you know when you are brave? What kinds of people are brave?
- Jacob: I am brave.
- Mara: I am brave when I get a shot
- Gracie: The muscle man at the circus is brave.
- Yasmina: The Doctor says I’m brave when I scream.
- Quinn: Football players are brave cause they get hit a lot. Football is not scary cause football players are grown-ups and they don’t get scared.
- Quinn: Babies are not afraid either.
- Graciella: My little brother is brave because he had surgery-he’s better now- and also every time I go to sleep he comes in my room and he isn’t afraid of the dark.
- Yasmina: When I hit my finger in the door it hurt a lot and my nail came off. When it was coming off I screamed a lot but I got braver and braver even though I screamed.
- Solomon: I didn’t cry when I got my finger stuck in the door, I didn’t cry so I was brave.
- Mara: My dad is brave because when he was fixing the car it fell on him and he had to go to the hospital. He was brave because they put staples in his head.
Question 3: If you don’t cry does that mean you’re brave?
- Quinn: Not totally
- Mara: My knee hurt and I didn’t cry.
- Quinn: She (Mara) was brave.
- Solomon: If someone doesn’t cry that doesn’t mean they’re not brave.
Question 4: Does shaking (like Frog and Toad) show that someone is not brave?
- Yasmina: Being still means you are brave because you are fighting the scary thing.
- Solomon: Can’t fight rocks (in reference to story)
- Gracie: I was brave when I feel off my bike and hurt myself, I felt brave because I wasn’t crying.
- Graciella: I stood up for myself against a bully and even his Mom, and I didn’t run away- I told him that he can be a bully and he isn’t going to hurt me. My sister and my cousin said I was brave.
- Solomon: When you stand up for yourself you are brave. If you are brave you can tell someone to stop teasing you.
- Quinn: My mom said I was brave when I got knocked down but shook it off.
Question 5: Can someone look brave but not be brave?
- Yasmina: The Doctor says that I’m brave but I’m kicking the Doctor. I don’t think I am brave, I’m not brave because I was scared.
Question 6: If something hurts does that mean you are not brave? Can you be brave and scared?
- Jacob: My friend hit me in the eye with a golf club and I had to have stitches and I was scared. But I was brave because I wasn’t crying. You can cry at anytime, if you don’t cry hard it easy to stop so it’s not bad. (I think he was getting at the point: if you don’t cry hard its easy to stop so you aren’t scared, but if you cry hard its hard to stop and maybe you are scared?)
- Annabelle: I hate when they prick you (in the doctor’s office) Makes me scared- you’re not brave if you are scared.
Question 7: Does hiding under the covers or in the closet show that you are not brave?
- Gracie: Sort of and sort of not.
- Estefani: It shows that you are not brave.