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EDUC 338 Week 7 SSR
1.Short summary of your book 2. Ask someone a comprehension question about their book.
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SSR is being added to schools across the nation in Middle and High School. Practices that encourage SSR are list below as a resource for y... -
Remember, a summary of your book is first, then go to two different colleagues and reply under their comment. -
Review where you are in the book. Discuss the main points or themes in the book. If you had to convince one person in our class to read yo...
"The Deep Blue Between" by Ayesha Attah
ReplyDelete-the first chapter of this book follows two sisters that were separated and the sister that was sent to south America to be a slave, is the main character of the chapter. she talks about the conditions she is living in and later on she ventures out to explore. the owner finds out and when she returned home, she was whipped brutally.
I knew your book choice would be about history!
DeleteIs this book based off real people or just real events? This sounds like a great book to read to put yourself in the perspective of someone who was enslaved and the trials they went through.
DeleteI haven’t read The Deep Blue Between, but it sounds like a powerful and emotional story.
I continued to read the same book as last week. Today's reading was about our perspectives and the way we can sometimes chalk up an entire class as "bad" because of a few or more than few students who are not doing what you are wanting. We tend to focus solely on those hard moments and when it becomes a memory it is summed up as a bad one. The author talked about how we need to stop and see the good in all the situations, especially in teaching. See the students who are always engaged, see the students who ask great questions, see the students who always try their best. Don't let the hard times harden you and make you think you are not doing a good enough job. He also talked about how using "power stances" or just taking a moment before class starts to lift yourself up in positive energy. Just taking a deep breath and believing it will be a great day can make a huge difference.
ReplyDeleteI like the philosophy of this book. there has been many times where i am eating lunch with teachers and they complain about the whole class being bad. I always felt that they are being too negative. I like the idea of focusing more on the positives of the class rather than the negative behaviors.
DeleteIt sounds like the book is offering a really valuable perspective on teaching! It’s so easy to get caught up in the challenges, but focusing on the positives and the students who are engaged can shift your mindset.
DeleteI think it could be easier to process and not be fully present when you're teaching if this is the mentality. I have noticed in my practice that if I connect with the students, then they are more likely to try to focus to the best of their ability. There must be good for there to be bad. We gotta love the challenge to deserve the good!
DeleteI agree with all of you! If we focus on the negative, it will consume us. This book is really great so far about just stepping back and appreciating that we became teachers for a reason and to remember there is always good in everything we do and encounter!
DeleteWith what you have said about the book just within the last two weeks makes me want to read it. This book might help not only myself in the classroom but the other one that is in my classroom as well.
DeleteI am reading "Get the Truth" by Phillip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero, with commentary by Peter Romary. It is a nonfiction book written by CIA agents to teach the reader how to persuade anyone to spill the beans. The book is breaking down the interrogation methods used in the CIA by giving real life examples. During SSR tonight, Susan spoke about her experience at the car dealership. She was able to get the best deal on a car she had ever received.
ReplyDeleteI watch alot of interrogations of some of the worst human beings and its pretty astonishing the psychology that goes into tricking even the worst of the worst to spill the beans.
DeleteOh, this book sounds interesting! I love learning about things like this. I am such a forensics junky!
DeleteI love how it went past what they would do with interrogation, but further about how they can use that in the outside world!
This book sound interesting and one that would keep me engaged. I have the tendency of stopping a book once it not longer has my attention.
DeleteNow, this sounds like a book that I would really enjoy reading! I love crime reading, both true and fiction! Many years ago, I started my college journey with a criminal justice major and always wanted to do forensics.
DeleteI chose to read a book that I plan to work into a lesson for my class called Imagine by Norman Messenger. This is primarily a picture book, but it is about some really wacky things that the author is trying to use to stimulate creative thinking. Some examples he uses on the first page are a teapot without a spout or a ladder without steps, they may be something we can imagine but they aren't particularly useful. The next page is a landscape that has giants hidden within the landscape. They are fully camouflaged into the landscape, but through some pareidolia I was able to see 7 different giant type figures. On the next page, there are fold outs that make for wacky animal combinations. One example of the 15 on the page was a giraffe head, jackelope horns, alligator body and lion tail. The author does provide probing questions throughout, but I was a bit caught up in how to explain and understand what I was seeing.
ReplyDeleteHello Marc,
DeleteIt sounds like an ISpy book that challenges the imagination of the readers. To imagine what the image of the page could or should represent and what it's purpose. It sounds like a great way to open your students' minds and welcome the idea to branch out and explore multiple meanings and purposes for an object or image. Not only that, but as a lesson; you could have the class create a short story, poem, or another image that describes the image and how their procieves it.
-Niki Blair
I am reading a book called Twisted Love by Ana Huang. Twisted Love is the first book of the series and it focusing on Alex Volkov, a successful business man and Ava Chen a kind-hearted photography student. In chapter one the story opens with Ava who lives a content life surrounded by her close knit group of friends and her overprotective brother Josh. Josh is about to leave a year ling medical mission but before he goes he asks his best friend Alex to keep an eye on Ava while he away. Ava knows Alex as a cold, mysterious man but she agrees to her brothers request. Alex, is known for his emotional detachment and despite having little interest in relationships or emotions. As they interact more Ava notices the tension between them but she is unsure Alex's true feelings.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like one that I would be interested in reading. I just do not have as much time for pleasure reading as I would like these days. I can't wait to read more about this book!
DeleteHello Ashley,
DeleteIt sounds like a fiction series that would be filled with a few twists and turns especially with the the word "Twisted" being in the title. I honestly avoid picking up a chapter book that is a part of a series because just like Sarah, I don't really have the time to commit to reading. And then there is the fact that I don't really find enjoyment from reading. So I associate reading as a chore or as an assignment which is not really a healthy aspect on reading. But "Twisted Love" does sound like an interesting story to read.
-Niki Blair
I was not very prepared last week to read a book, so I grabbed the first one I found to read for class. However, I am more prepared for tonight's class and actually went out and bought a book this past week. I have chosen a new book for class, "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover. I know that they made a motion picture for this book, but I have not seen it yet because I like to read books first before watching movies.
ReplyDeleteThis book starts off with Lily coming home from her father's funeral, where she reads his eulogy. She seeks some alone time on top of a roof where she can enjoy the quiet night light when another person comes out to the rooftop, not knowing she is up there too. She can tell the man is angry or upset. The man just notices Lily and asks her what her name is. That was as far as I got before our time was up.
I haven't seen the movie or read the book, but hearing about the lead up, this situation could be the catalyst that starts the book in motion. A relationship that blossoms into something beautiful or a tragedy that is carried with the protagonist throughout the journey.
DeleteHello Sarah,
DeleteI think it is smart to try to read a story before watching it. In most cases, from what I have heard from active book lovers is that the story line in the physical book form is "better" than what makes the final cut in a film version. Even if the story line is broken up into parts to create a series of films or episodes, the art of motion picture tends to lack the emense details that is written between the binds of a book. I am eager to hear if you feel the same way after finishing this book and watching the movie afterwards.
-Niki Blair
I myself was not prepared for class last week and ended up going and getting a few books just for this class. I did feel more prepared for class and luckily the book i chose to get this past weekend is very interesting.
DeleteHello everyone,
ReplyDeleteThis week I continued reading Avatar The Last Airbender: The Search by Bryan Konietzko and Micheal Dante Dimartino. Last week I left off where the main character Zuko was transporting his sister Azula back to her room where she can finish out her sentence in comfort. While transporting her, Zuko asks her a few following questions in regards to where their mother could be at. After a little stalling, Azula ends up escaping out of her straight-jacket and goes to a hidden chamber that their father had in the palace. There she shows Zuko where their father had kept the letters their mother had sent to them. Before Zuko had a chance to read the letters for himself, Azula sets them on fire. She explains that she knows what information were on these letters and would tell Zuko the information if she were to be given some freedom. Zuko ultimately agrees and allows Azula to remind out of the straight-jacket and with restraints for the knowledge of the letters. The next day, Zuko calls on his friends; Team Avatar to occuppany him and Azula on their travels to the home town of their mother where they hope to find her or find more answers regarding where is could be. And that is where I left off.
-Niki Blair