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.