Quote to ponder under the apple tree
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ~ Booth Tarkington (born July 29, 1869)
Resources to bite into
1. Midwestern values *
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist best known for his two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1922). He isn’t read much anymore, so it seems worth highlighting his still valid goal. Although born in Indiana, he lived for many years in the east where people tended to think themselves superior to people living elsewhere. “ . . . I tried to make my novel answer all this nonsense. A thing the novel tried to say was that in the matter of human character, the people of such an out-of-the-way midland village were as estimable as any others anywhere. . . . [That] was my emotional tribute to the land of my birth.” Now we think more globally, but don’t we still need to fight the tendency to doubt the character of those who aren’t quite like us?
2. Confusing English *
The word quiz in the current Brain Aerobics Weekly features heteronyms, words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently, such as “wound” (meaning injury) and “wound” (meaning what you did to start the clock). Although you might think these are fairly rare, in reality they are hundreds of common English words with alternate pronunciations, and “alternate” is one of them. It’s part of what makes English confusing for non-native speakers – and, of course, the British, Australians and other English-speaking countries have their own pronunciations. The quiz mentioned above uses only words beginning with “C”. Try putting the following words in sentences using their differing pronunciations and meanings:
buffet dove excuse incense moderate object perfect rebel
For more ideas, go to: http://jonv.flystrip.com/heteronym/heteronym.htm
3. A thought provoking question from If . . . (Questions for the Game of Life) *
If you could dine alone with anyone from any person in history, who would you choose and why? To order If . . . by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell, HUclick hereUH.
* These items are easily adapted when working with people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tips/ideas/insights to savor *
The trivia quiz in the current UBrain Aerobics WeeklyU asks you to determine which of three prices was what an item cost in 1950. This variation on The Price Is Right can make a good party game, contest or team-building exercise. You can also vary it by:
• changing the decade (1940s, 1970s, etc.),
• looking up the cost of just a few different items in different decades or
• turning it into a reminiscence exercise by perusing a book like Everyday Fashions of the Fifties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs (To order, click here.) A variation of this book is also available for most of the decades of the 1900s.
Here are a few prices that didn’t make it into this week’s Brain Aerobics Weekly quiz:
1. A child’s 8-piece Roy Rogers cowboy outfit (complete with toy gun and lariat) a. $4.88___ b. $6.49 ___ c. $7.88 ___
2. A gallon of exterior house paint
a. $1.29 ___ b. 2.29 ___ c. $3.29 ___
3. A pound of lamb chops
a. 35 cents ___ b. 49 cents ___ c. 65 cents ___
4. A pound of sliced bacon
a. 35 cents ___ b. 49 cents ___ c. 65 cents ___
5. 5 pounds of onions
a. 15 cents ___ b. 25 cents ___ c. 39 cents ____
Source: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950s.html
Answers: 1. a; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a; 5. a
Let the ever-ripening Wiser Now website become the apple of your eye.
-- Host a workshop, purchase materials or click on the blue print to sign up for Brain Aerobics Weekly and Wiser Now Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Tips.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ~ Booth Tarkington (born July 29, 1869)
Resources to bite into
1. Midwestern values *
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist best known for his two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1922). He isn’t read much anymore, so it seems worth highlighting his still valid goal. Although born in Indiana, he lived for many years in the east where people tended to think themselves superior to people living elsewhere. “ . . . I tried to make my novel answer all this nonsense. A thing the novel tried to say was that in the matter of human character, the people of such an out-of-the-way midland village were as estimable as any others anywhere. . . . [That] was my emotional tribute to the land of my birth.” Now we think more globally, but don’t we still need to fight the tendency to doubt the character of those who aren’t quite like us?
2. Confusing English *
The word quiz in the current Brain Aerobics Weekly features heteronyms, words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently, such as “wound” (meaning injury) and “wound” (meaning what you did to start the clock). Although you might think these are fairly rare, in reality they are hundreds of common English words with alternate pronunciations, and “alternate” is one of them. It’s part of what makes English confusing for non-native speakers – and, of course, the British, Australians and other English-speaking countries have their own pronunciations. The quiz mentioned above uses only words beginning with “C”. Try putting the following words in sentences using their differing pronunciations and meanings:
buffet dove excuse incense moderate object perfect rebel
For more ideas, go to: http://jonv.flystrip.com/heteronym/heteronym.htm
3. A thought provoking question from If . . . (Questions for the Game of Life) *
If you could dine alone with anyone from any person in history, who would you choose and why? To order If . . . by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell, HUclick hereUH.
* These items are easily adapted when working with people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tips/ideas/insights to savor *The trivia quiz in the current UBrain Aerobics WeeklyU asks you to determine which of three prices was what an item cost in 1950. This variation on The Price Is Right can make a good party game, contest or team-building exercise. You can also vary it by:
• changing the decade (1940s, 1970s, etc.),
• looking up the cost of just a few different items in different decades or
• turning it into a reminiscence exercise by perusing a book like Everyday Fashions of the Fifties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs (To order, click here.) A variation of this book is also available for most of the decades of the 1900s.
Here are a few prices that didn’t make it into this week’s Brain Aerobics Weekly quiz:
1. A child’s 8-piece Roy Rogers cowboy outfit (complete with toy gun and lariat) a. $4.88___ b. $6.49 ___ c. $7.88 ___
2. A gallon of exterior house paint
a. $1.29 ___ b. 2.29 ___ c. $3.29 ___
3. A pound of lamb chops
a. 35 cents ___ b. 49 cents ___ c. 65 cents ___
4. A pound of sliced bacon
a. 35 cents ___ b. 49 cents ___ c. 65 cents ___
5. 5 pounds of onions
a. 15 cents ___ b. 25 cents ___ c. 39 cents ____
Source: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950s.html
Answers: 1. a; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a; 5. a
Let the ever-ripening Wiser Now website become the apple of your eye.
-- Host a workshop, purchase materials or click on the blue print to sign up for Brain Aerobics Weekly and Wiser Now Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Tips.
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