Meadsnovels

About Meadsnovels

Professional Author and Teacher

Publisher

pelham mead

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Apr 2021

Latest episode

8 May 2021

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 May 2021

   A Teacher Goes to War

   </p A TEACHER GOES TO WAR Written by Dr. Pelham K. Mead III 260 East Bradley ave., Space 3, El Cajon, Ca. 92021 619-449-8716 drpel@aol.com A Teacher Goes to War By Dr. Pelham K. Mead III 1 ACT ONE- THE HOME OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, JUNE, 1851 1 2 SCENE 1-INT. DAY -TEA AND A READING AT THE STOWE HOME 2 The sign on the front of the house says Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. A group of Bowdoin students including Joshua L. Chamberlain have come to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house every saturday night to hear a reading from her newspaper serial called, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Harriet Beecher Stowe is age 40, and the wife of Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe at Bowdoin College, Maine. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (30) Come on in Joshua, and friends. Take a seat in the parlor and help yourself to some tea. I am going to read the first installment of my article to the National Era newspaper . JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN (17) Thank you Mrs. Stowe. My classmates and I would love to join you in tea and story telling. Thomas, Albion, Jordan and Edward take a seat gentlemen. Tea anyone? Sugar? ALBION HENRY (17) This is a fine house you have here Mrs. Stowe. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Thank you Albion. We don’t own it, we rent the house. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN Is Professor Stowe in today? HARRIET BEECHER STOWE No, Joshua he is at Bowdoin college grading papers in his office. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN He is always busy. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Is everyone comfortable? Well then let’s started. I called my series,”Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” As you all know it is a story about slavery in America. Let me begin and afterward we can talk about the characters and your impressions. “Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of Peoria, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen with chairs closely approaching seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examine, did not seem, strictly speaking to come under the species. H was a short, thick-set man, with coarse commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arrange with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings: and he wore a heavy gold watch chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, -which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray’s Grammar,* and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe. His companion, Mr. Shelby, had the appearance of a gentleman; and the arrangements of the house, and the general air of the housekeeping, indicated easy, and even opulent circumstances. As we before stated, the two were in the midst of an earnest conversation. ‘That is the way I should arrange the matter,” said Mr. Shelby. “I can’t make trade that way-I positively can’t, Mr. Shelby,” said the other, holding up a glass of wine between his eye and the light. “ (MORE) 2. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (CONT'D) Why, the fact is Haley, Tom is an uncommon fellow; he is certainly worth that sum anywhere,- steady, honest, capable, manages my whole farm like a clock.” You mean honest, as niggers go,” said Haley, helping himself to a glass of brandy. “No; I mean, really, Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow. He got religion at a camp-meeting, four years ago; and i believe he really did get it. I’ve trusted

2. 

   14 Apr 2021

   Health Education for Junior High and High School in America 2021.

   This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/03/22/health-education-for-junior-high-and-high-school-in-america-2021/ Health Education is a constantly changing course for Junior and Senior High students as well as College students. The recent pandemic has taught us that Viruses are the danger in the present and future. We must learn how to prevent them and how to treat them as well. Polio and small pox seem like distant diseases, but at one time they killed thousands of people. Learning about these disease will help students prepare for future diseases. Health Education is about living properly and not taking things for granted. Education is the key to learning.

3. 

   11 Apr 2021

   Don’t Be Square

   This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/02/02/dont-be-square-2/ This is a movie script about my days teaching at Kakiat Junior High in Spring Valley, New York in the East Ramapo Central School District. John Carucci, Rick Knapp and Pelham Mead are the three lead male teachers in this comedy and drama movie script about teaching in the 1960's and 1970's with all the social movements, the Anti-war effort by students, the Drug abuse era, the free love era, the Civil Rights Era, and the stresses brought on by administrators in politics with teachers. John was a funny PA announcer each morning at Kakiat JHS and also a Social Studies teacher and Football coach. He was everything to everyone and a full hearted laugh. Rick Knapp from Syracuse Univ. was a college baseball player and athlete. Rick was competitive in everything he did and a great friend for 30 plus years. Together He and I ran the Kakiat JHS Ski club for over 20 years, skiing every Friday night after school. The humor is in the day to day events that occurred in those days and you will see.

4. 

   2 Apr 2021

   My Years at the College of Mount Saint Vincent as Director of the Teacher learner Center and Coordinator of the Title V federal grant for 1.1 million.

   This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/04/01/my-years-at-the-college-of-mount-saint-vincent-as-director-of-the-teacher-learner-center-and-coordinator-of-the-title-v-federal-grant-for-1-1-million/