Nonfiction Chapter 9

Nonfictioon books are usually journals, diaries, life-cycle books, how to books, reference books, and biographies. Not to be rude or mean but I am not really a nonfiction book person. Not saying I dispise them I just don;t really enjoy them as much as other books. I need to be able to read something fun and interesting. Probaly the only nonfiction books that I have opened to read are text books and reference book to use for a research paper or project. Other types of nonfiction books that I have opened to look at and read are recipe books. I love to bake so that is the only reason why I have nonfiction books. Nonfiction books to me I think they are mostly to take in information. Very educational.

Fiction Family Chapter 8

Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction are all my favorite!!!!!! I absolutly enjoy reading romance novels. I love the Twilight series and as a child a love the Chronicals of Narnia and Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. They later made them into movies which makes it even better. Even though the books are way way better I still like them. I enjoy the fact the in Sarah Plain in tall is realistic and historical, because yes there were mail order brides and that's what sarah was. Jacob had posted an ad in the paper and Sarah answered it. Alot of the romance novels that I read deal with mail order brides too. Or they take place after the civil war or what ever wars they were in at that time. I guess that is why I also enjoy history. These books are realistic fiction. The Twilight series those are in a way realistic, fantasy and science fiction. Realistic beacuse there are realistic people in the books, fantasy because alot of things are to good to be true. Edward is too too too too too too perfect. But I fell totally in love with him, FANTASY!!!! He is just real in the book. Science fiction beacuse there are wolves and vampires in the books. But all these things are what makes us intrested in reading and falling in love with the books. I like that when I pick it up to read it is very hard and impossible for me to put it down. Fiction Family type of books are the one that I start to read and I stay up till five in the morning reading. I can read the entire book without putting it down. That is how much I love to read Fiction books.

Picture Books Chapter 7

Oh wow picture books!!! I have never really been the type to love or like picture books. Unless it is a book that really explains itself through the pictures. I am the type of person who actually needs words on my pages of my book. I guess because I LOVE to READ. Books of course not text books. lol Sorry Professor. ;-) But hey I'm not the only one. But I would rather look at a picture book than read a text. My brother loves picture books. I remember when he was little he would always like to look at the big paintings in the books. He would say that he love the pretty bright colors. I never really took the time to look at them with him. And today i took the time to look at some and I may say that they are very nice pictures. I guess I can say that I was wrong. I really liked them. But still does not mean that they are my favorite. I notice that Picture Books are not a type of Genre. They fall into many different categories. They are poetry, fantasy, science fiction, realistic fiction, and historical fiction. I would have thought that they were their own Genre if I did not read that ji ji ji. I bought some books for my library last week and my brother chose two picture books. I love the fact that i have a younger brother because he helps me choose books .

Traditional Literature Chapter 6

What is traditional Literature?
Traditional Literature is the writtan form of stories that are part of the oral tradition of a culture, culture can be an ethnic group within a national border. (p 123)
This is when oral stories become written ones.
For example Cinderela and The Three Little Pigs. They are both traditional stories because there are SOOOOOOOOOO many versions of these books. They are stories that have been told for years, decades, centries and even longer than that too. Traditional literature elements are as follows plot, setting, characterization, style, theme, motifs and variants. Every culture has it's own style of traditional literature.
Traditional story books can get boring after a I really can not do that with this type of literature I am the type of person that needs more excitement that allows me to go beyond out of this world.

Poetry chapter 5

What is poetry? Why do we need it? Why is it important? Who cares about it?
Poetry is a musical language that skips, it sings and it tugs at you with an instant voice that rings in your head.(p89) Poetry creates love, harmony and sound of rhythm. Some people don't understand that poems really don't have to rhyme. I remember when I was in elementary I HATED reading poetry because i did not know how to understand it. I didn't know that you had to analyze the words to find the meaning of the poem. Now that I am older I understand that you don't just have to analyze it because everyone can interpret different meanings of the poem. But if you know the authors history ,and If you know about the type of life he lived. You are better able to understand where the author is coming from. I my comp. 2 class at Palo Alto I learned alot about poems, and I learned how to appreciate it alot better. Poem are all different some are about love, death, suicide, depression, family, everyday life and much much more. Here is one of my favorite poems. Read it analyze it and try to find out what it means.


My Papas Waltz


The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

Theodore Roethke


And no this poem is not about the boy having an abusive father. Read it and try to understand it. I really liked this poem after I understood it.

Responding To Literature

Everyone responds to literature differently. It all depends on your back ground, what type of person you are, where you are from , your culture and many more things in order for you to understand and respond to it. My mother, sisters, and I tend to read the same books. We pretty much respond to it the same culturally wise. But at time we don't because of our age differences. I remember when we read the passage and highlighted important word and read it by the eyes of different perspectives. Oh wow that was interesting. Reading like if we were a retailer, a robber and many more.
When choosing a book of your preference always think about, your favorite things, if you like fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Or is there a type of books that you don't enjoy.
These are things I think about when deciding on a book to read.

Go buy books!

Hi everyone I just wanted to post that if you are already buying books for your classroom library you should go check out the Handy Andy store off of High way 90 and Military. I good go and buy brand new books for a dollar there. 95% of the time they have really good books. I have bought allot of my books there. You just have to know how to go around and look. I go at least once every two weeks because they switch the books out often. I wouldn't hurt to go and check them out.

Chapter 3 understanding what we read

Reading is not hard. The hard part is understanding and comprehending what you are reading at the same time. There are times that I my self have to read things twice because I'll start day dreaming while reading. It is very very very possible to read a paragraph, a page or even a book with out knowing what you have read. There have been times that I remember that we had to do required reading for school and in the end we had to write an essay and do a project and students essays and projects would be about something totally different to what the book was about. The problem was that they did not understand, comprehend what the book was about. We as future educators need to find a way to make sure that our students stay engaged in what they are reading. If there is something that catches their attention and they enjoy reading it and understand it, we need to make sure that they keep enjoy reading it. But still at the same time try to make sure they read and understand the required text.

Chapter 2

Chapter two starts talking about culture right away. On page 23 it says that culture goes beyond what different people wear and eat, what holidays they celebrate, and the types of homes they dwell in. I know that in my house my culture is seen right away as soon as you walk in the door. My family and I watch television together 95% of the time. We eat dinner together every night. We listen to music and dance on the nights that we don't watch television. Everything is done as a family. We even go to the stores as a family, just not the mall my dad just gives us the money to go. ha ha I have notice that hispanics, mexicans, and latinos are all about families being united.

At schools there are many types of cultures, at the schools that I went to hispanic culture was the majority. I felt at home at school and in my classes because it was like being at home. The majority of my friends were and are hispanic and even the funny thing is that my anglo friends spoke and understood spanish. I guess because they were so used to being around us and plus we went to school together since we were younger I guess how we say in spanish no mas se les pego el esponol.

Ones' culture in a way has to do with the way they learn and the things they do. Even
the types of books that we read.

Round Robbin and banned books

Oh wow it's late and I am sleepy. But anyways I just wanted to share something with you all. If we have class together I hope you all remember when we were talking about the reading groups the round Robbin thing. Well I remembered when I was younger I was one of those kids who had the books with the big pictures and short words. And it wasn't because I was dumb it was because the dang teacher was an idiot and I guess she thought I was stupid because I had been in bilingual classes. There were times that I did end up filling dumb but that just made me more mad at the teacher. She never took the time to actually let me read to her. If she had done that in the first place she would have seen that I could speak, read, and write in both Spanish and English. So please don't do this when you have your own classroom. Be the type of teacher that listens to all the students and don't just look at them and think, Ah her parents are Mexican what does she know! Ah We know a lot! Last year when I would go to the elementary schools to put hours or just to help out I would love to read to the students. And enjoyed listening to them read to me because reading out loud does help. I sometimes think I should be a librarian because I enjoy kid's books so much.
I have always enjoyed reading. I remember my mother always reading to us when we were younger. Even now that I'm older we still read together or we tell each other about the new book that we are reading. My mom has never denied me a book. She has never told me I couldn't read it. In high school I remember my freshman year we started to read Native Son, and well some boy's mom had that book taken away. She said that kids shouldn't be reading stuff like that. For those of you who have read it I don't know if you remember the masturbation part in the first couple of pages in the book. Well anyways he showed his mom and we got the book taken away. I was so angry! HELLO YOUR SON IS HOW OLD?! AND YOU MEAN TO TELL ME HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT MASTURBATION IS! Parents who are like that need to grow up. That same day that they took away the book I made my mom buy me the book. I wanted to read the book, and I did i would take it to school and read it during lunch and teachers would walk by and tell me that I was not allowed to read it and I would say, "OH YES I AM!" I have read the book twice. And if you have not read it you should it was awesome.
There are lots of books on the banned list that i read in high school that I thought were great books. I should google kids books that have been banned. I will do that tomorrow. And will put up some websites for the project.

chap 1 and children's literature authors

In chapter one called Believing in living Literature, What I found most interesting was the fact that teachers make sure that their classroom libraries are like a living room set. therefore making the students feel more at home. teachers also make sure that the books students have access to are high quality literature of various types. in the chapter there was a certain paragraph about believing in children. i found that past interesting and when i read that part i remembered about a book that Dr. Ferguson read to us on Tuesday i don't remember the name or the author but i will look up on that. well anyways the book was about a little girl who loved books and loved to draw, she really wanted to learn how to read but she had trouble learning and she some how managed to go all the way to the fifth grade without knowing how to read. all the students would laugh and they would make fun of her calling her dumb. her teacher would defend her and one day he figured out that she could not read so he taught her. he would stay after school and help her. then at the end of the book she tells him thank you. but i really enjoyed that book it made me want to cry i need to but that book! well those are things that show you that not every child learns at the same speed some learn fast than others and some need more time and patients which is fine. well that's enough about the chapter now i want to tell you all about Barbara Park the author of the Junie B Jones books i absolutely love to read these books and a never read them as a child i read these books last year a fell in love with them. and believe me if you plan on teaching kinder or first grade you should really think about investing money in buying some of these books the students will love them and so will you.

sorry everyone

hey everyone i know i didn't blog on thursday but i was very very sick i'll give yall the details later well i just got a new laptop and promise to blog tomorrow. thanks and goodnight ;-(

I finally was able to create this blog that was stressing me out allready cuz i had to do it like four times!