PG11 Clip Notes
| Notes:n:nn | by Analyst, R W Lawler, 8/11/2024 |
| Setting,Props | Cedar Hall, Family Room: props: magnetic numbers and a metal board. |
| Actors,Aims | Peggy and Bob; Mom on camera; Katy wanders in. |
| Episode A: | Peggy: Can I pick out the numbers this time? Bob: You can do whatever you want here. I’ll just turn them up so they’re easier to recognize what the numbers are. What do you have in mind to do, Peggy? I know you said you wanted to play with the numbers now. Peggy: Yeah. I’m going to make this be good. Bob: You’re going to make it be good? Peggy: Yeah. Bob: Well, I’m glad you hear that. Well, let me take these out of the way, if you don’t want to use them. |
| Episode B: | Katy: [wanders into scene, blocking camera view] Bob: Katy, don’t stand there. Do not stand there, Katy. Come over here.[taps on floor; she moves]. Mom or Bob: [draws Katy back from the scene; Katy wails.] Peggy: We need something. Bob: Now, what do you need? [holding out hand] Is it one of these things in my hand? Peggy: Yeah [takes tokens from his hand] Bob: Okay, what have you got up there? What’s that say? Katy: [Katy wails] Bob: Can you shut off the camera? [Mom does so.] |
| Episode C: | Katy: [continues to whimper] Bob: Katy, I really want you to keep quiet. Bob: [to Peggy] Now, what have you done? Peggy: That? Bob: Yeah, while I was beating up Katy, you did something else. Now, what did you do? Peg: I made it be 10, because it’s ten. Bob: How did you figure that out? Or did you just know that? Peggy: [holding up both hands] How many is that? Bob: Well, you’ve got five fingers on this hand and five more on that hand. Peggy: Well, that makes ten. Bob: Oh, okay. Peggy: Let me test it. Bob: Remember, I know the last thing we did, we were pretending. You were pretending you had six fingers on one hand, right? Because I asked you that hard problem about five plus six. Peggy: [starts counting her fingers by touching them to her nose]. [offscreen: a sneeze] |
| Episode D: | Peggy: [completes counting her fingers and holds up both hands] Bob: Well, let’s change it then, make it five plus six. [substitutes a 6 for a 5 in the equation]. Is that still true? Peggy: [silently shaking her head “no”] Bob: No? Well, what should it be? What should it be? [removing something from board] We’ll keep this separate. This is something else. Katy: [whimpers again] Peggy: [counting fingers] I’m going to say ‘6’… Wait a second… [counting fingers again] Ten! Bob: Five plus six equals ten? Peggy: [counting fingers aloud] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Bob: Well, it’s true you have ten fingers, but what does that have to do with five plus six? Peggy: [demonstrating] See, Here’s six. Here’s five. One, two, three, four, five… [puzzled] Bob: You missed your pinky. That’s five. Peggy: [reflecting, in self-correction mode, eventually replaces the ’10’ with a ‘6’.] Bob: Five plus six equals six?… Not too easy, huh? Peggy: [continues ‘thinking with her fingers’, holds up six fingers] Bob: That’s six… I know, you could borrow my fingers. Peggy: [smiling at a different initiative] Okay. |
| Link Index | Panel PG11, Reading, Adding with Fingers, Social Interactions |
| Themes, Interplay |
