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Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School

Added by MuppetDudeRoosevelt Franklin Elementary School is the elementary school that Roosevelt Franklin attended. Sometimes, Roosevelt would sneak into a class when the teacher wasn't around and teach the class himself.
Roosevelt's classmates/pupils included Hard Head Henry Harris, Smart Tina, Suzetta, Baby Bree Boo Bop A Doo, and Baby Breeze. All of these characters were voiced by the same people who played the adults on Sesame Street.
The blackboard background used in these skits was recycled for the song "Sound It Out."
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| Picture | Summary | Earliest Known Appearance | Description |
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| | Roosevelt spells out the word POISON and explains what it means. | ||
| | | Roosevelt tells the class that they themselves are as great as anybody can be. | |
| | | Roosevelt teaches the class about traffic. | |
| | | Roosevelt teaches the class the difference between high and low. | |
| | | Roosevelt talks to his class about Africa. Smart Tina thinks that Africa is just a big jungle, because she's seen it that way in Tarzan movies. Roosevelt corrects her; only a small portion of Africa is a jungle. Africa also has cities and deserts and lakes. Hard Head Henry Harris compares Africa to Smart Tina.
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| | With the class singing along (and Hard Head Henry Harris providing a snare beat on his desk), Roosevelt teaches a story about pride in oneself. The story involves a duck who is told by a chicken that it's "bad luck to be born a duck," because a duck can't cluck or do anything a chicken can do. It's not until the duck learns that he can swim that he realizes it's "good luck to be born a duck."
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| | | Using pictures on the blackboard, Roosevelt Franklin tells the class a story about two little dogs who find a big ol' bone in a doghouse. They try to take the bone, but it turns out that it belongs to a big, mean dog, who chases them away. The moral of the story: "If something's not yours, leave it alone; could be a big ol' dog in the doghouse." | |
| | | Roosevelt instructs the class in an exercise: "Lean to the left! Lean to the right! Stand up, sit down! (Outta sight!)" | |
| | | Roosevelt makes sure the class knows the difference between loud and soft. "Don't tell me I can't teach."
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| | | Roosevelt finds that Suzetta is upset, because Hard Head Henry Harris called her a cantaloupe head. Roosevelt tells her that when you're upset with someone, you should tell them how you feel. He negotiates a peace settlement. | |
| | | Roosevelt Franklin talks to his class about some of the great black people in history. | |
| Roosevelt Franklin teahces the class the difference between "here" and "there". He demonstrates by having a letter for Hard Head Henry Harris (here), and delivering it to him (over there), with Smart Tina portraying a mailbox, and Baby Breeze taking it to him. Upon reading the letter, Harris is insulted and chases Roosevelt.
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