I knew right away that I wanted to center my project on the story called Borreguita and the Coyote by Verna Aardma and illustrated by Petra Mathers. My inspiration for wanting to do this project reminds me of myself growing up always coming up being a trickster and clever little girl and will be suitable for my targeted audience of second graders. Young students will find this book easy to connect with because we all try getting out of a sticky situation once in a while and know they will enjoy this tale of a clever little lamb that outsmarts a hungry coyote.
The voyage of the narwhal is a novel by Andrea Barrett, who reveals many aspects of the search for fame and glory, versus search for the truth. When the characters leave for the voyage with the same mission, it is the drive of their different motives for the expedition that separates their destiny on the trip. It was the commander that in blindness of fame led the expedition to tragedy and loss. Through out this novel the author reveals through the characters that the search for the truth is more important than the search of fame and wealth.
Alfredo Corchado — is the author of the book named " Midnight in Mexico:A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness”. We are, probably, all interested in finding out the facts, news, and gossips about Mexico. This country was always associated with something mysterious. For me personally, the title of the book seemed to be very gripping, I was interested in revealing the secrets of life in Mexico, thus I decided to read this book. I was really curious, what can Alfredo Corchado tell me about the life in this country, the country, where the constant massacre is the picture, people used to see. In his book, the author tells the reader about the real situations, which took place in Mexico, reveals the secrets of the people’s lives and tells the story from the “inside”. He describes the way he lives his life, and does his work. The " Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” is a memoir. Author tries to transform his own experience into the story line. Corchado shows the reader the darkest episodes of Mexican society, while relying on his own experience.
In the novel Chulito author Charles Rice-Gonzalez creates a familiar world seen through the eyes of a young, gay Latino from New York to strip the reconstructed masculinity that is inherent to the urban Latin communities' sense of machismo and expose the realities of outdated views on gender roles and sexual orientation, and the internal power struggle against the machismo aspects that entrap its members in a cycle of poverty and violence. The majority of young Latinos growing up in impoverished areas of urban society think machismo is necessary for survival and acceptance within the community. Rice-Gonzalez reveals this to be an oversimplification by the members of the community of the social dynamics that are at work behind the scenes and,
The story by Somerville Ross, “Philippa’s Fox Hunt” was set in Ireland. A recently married couple Mr. and Mrs. Yeates were featured adapting to a new environment. The new place was characterized by new social activities that were not common in their previous residence. They had to learn new skills such as riding horses and hunting. Mr. Yeates who narrated the story described his life after marriage and how events had shaped his marriage. At the very beginning I was able to pick an element of symbolism; a newly married couple will naturally start a new life and similarly in the story the couple ventured into a new society where almost everything was new just in the same way when two people get married to each other.
American consumers think of voting as something to be done in a booth when election season comes around. In fact, voting happens with every swipe of a credit card in a supermarket, and with every drive-through window order. Every bite taken in the United States has repercussions that are socially, politically, economically, and morally based. How food is produced and where it comes from is so much more complicated than the picture of the pastured cow on the packaging seen when placing a vote. So what happens when parents are forced to make a vote for their children each and every meal? This is the dilemma that Jonathan Safran Foer is faced with, and what prompted his novel, Eating Animals. Perhaps one of the core issues explored is the American factory farm. Although it is said that factory farms are the best way to produce a large amount of food at an affordable price, I agree with Foer that government subsidized factory farms use taxpayer dollars to exploit animals to feed citizens meat produced in a way that is unsustainable, unhealthy, immoral, and wasteful. Foer also argues for vegetarianism and decreased meat consumption overall, however based on the facts it seems more logical to take baby steps such as encouraging people to buy locally grown or at least family farmed meat, rather than from the big dogs. This will encourage the government to reevaluate the way meat is produced. People eat animals, but they should do so responsibly for their own benefit.
Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "Chickamauga," scrutinizes American values, specifically, America’s identifying with the natural world. Bierce is critical of the American association with divine destiny, which has manifested itself throughout history in the form of John Winthrop’s “City upon a hill” speech, the notion of the “white man’s burden,” and Manifest Destiny. American history, in the scope of the short story, is one of perceived “rightly” subjugation of others. Bierce satirizes this philosophy by use of the child as a manifestation of American values that are eventually shown to be feeble and weak.
Climo’s book, Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb, is a short forty-page children's book based on a Mexican fable that outlines the adventure of a young fire ant. Due to her small stature, her peers frequently left her with their
The eternal endeavor of obtaining a realistic sense of selfhood is depicted for all struggling women of color in Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands/La Frontera” (1987). Anzaldua illustrates the oppressing realities of her world – one that sets limitations for the minority. Albeit the obvious restraints against the white majority (the physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico), there is a constant and overwhelming emotional battle against the psychological “borderlands” instilled in Anzaldua as she desperately seeks recognition as an openly queer Mestiza woman. With being a Mestiza comes a lot of cultural stereotypes that more than often try to define ones’ role in the world – especially if you are those whom have privilege above the “others”.
Explain to the student that you will be reading a fiction story and that we will be gathering facts as we read the story together. Although it is a fiction, book we still will be able to identify some facts about ants as we read.
I immediately decided to to interview my brother, Henry Ropella, for this project after reading Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Chicano author Gloria E. Anzaldúa because I was struck by the poignancy of the preface, “Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element” (19). Henry is twelve years old, in middle school, and is Latino, my family having adopted him from Guatemala when he was a baby. I want to know how he feels about his Latino heritage while living in a predominately white small town and what part he thinks it plays in his identity, especially since identity is often scrutinized in a cliquey environment of Middle school. By comparing
My first book was “The Only Lonely Panda” by Jonny Lambert. For the most part I followed the same format that I had planned for “If You Give a Moose a Muffin”. The group was smaller so we sat in a half moon shape with me in the front. Still keeping everything on their level. I started by asking the children about the cover and the pictures inside. We talked about pandas and who had seen pandas at the zoo. We also talked about how pandas eat bamboo and how they can be so big and eat leaves. Even though the group was smaller, I still double panned so all the students got a good look at the pictures. Throughout the story, I asked the student various questions about the different animal’s colors and why pandas would have a hard time dancing and
Coyote is a relative of the dog, wolf and jackal. The average male coyote weighs 8 to 20 kg (18 to 44 lb) and the average female 7 to 18 kg (15 to 40 lb) and has grayish-brown to yellowish-brown fur on top and whitish fur on its under parts, though it varies somewhat with geography. It has large triangular ears on the top of its head and a long, narrow muzzle. It has a black nose; yellow eyes; and a long, bushy tail.
There isn’t a better way to teach a child an extremely valuable life lesson than through a small sweet story of literature. And there isn’t a better example than “The Three Little Pigs” by Joseph Jacobs. As everyone knows, the premise of the story is about three little pigs trying to survive from a wolf who is trying to eat them. As Carol, from Carol’s Notebook states,
The Cat in the Hat is one of the most beloved book by children. The project will be the creation of a picture book based on the entertaining story, written by Dr. Seuss. This story is popular among children because of the impishness of the mysterious cat. Many themes play a role in this children’s book, such as honesty, trust, and responsibility. This book expounds how it is important to think before a person can be trusted. Since the children let the cat inside their house, he caused trouble that might lead to a punishment for the children. However, the children chose to lie to their mother, which is not the right thing to do. These concepts have major significance in a person’s childhood. The Cat in the Hat, is definitely famous for its
For my book report I read The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle. This book is about a twelve year old girl named Alice who is growing up on a horse ranch in desert Colorado. At the time we really being the story it’s about mid-May and an extreme heat wave has just begun to occur. We get to follow this girl through what could be the longest summer of her life.