Plot Summary: With a turning of each page, author introduces various animals and people, and ask them what they see. Students first meet Brown Bear followed by Red Bird, Yellow Duck, Blue Horse, Green Frog, Purple Cat, Black Sheep, Goldfish, Teacher and Children. Each character sees another in a predictable pattern, which is repeated over and over until a student can join in with a teacher and easily predict the next lines. The creative rhyming finishes with the summary of all the characters that the “children” have seen. Theme: You can write your own book by using pattern sentences. Illustrations: Eric Carle’s illustrations of the characters are a fantastic combination of tissue paper collages with eye-catchy colors. Big, bright and boldly
colored pictures catch students’ attention and help interact as the story becomes more familiar. Illustrations are also a helpful resource of introducing colors and names of animals for ELL students. I also think, that they may be used in art lesson on patterns and collages to help children be more creative. Personal Response: The book is a great starting point to introduce young students to basic vocabulary and writing in a simple, creative way. I really like its rhythmic and repetitive pattern which can be beneficial for children who need extra support in reading and writing. The pattern may also be implemented when teaching about rhythm/repetitive writing; students may write their own pieces of texts using a pattern from the book incorporating their own ideas. Extension Ideas: • Write your own book using a pattern _____, _____ what do you see? I see _____ looking at me. Write at least five questions and answers, and then add pictures. On the first page write your name and the title of the book. • Memory game: I have got pictures of each character from the book and I am placing them around my spinner. I will have you take turns spinning the spinner. When the spinner points to a character, you must tell what that character sees next in the book. • Math: Brown Bear saw 2 Purple Cats and 3 White Dogs. How many animals did he see in all?
• In the gym, the gym teacher announced that they were going to start a new unit. The new unit was volleyball.
The book, The Truth About Sparrows by Marian Hale is about when Sadie Wynn moves to Texas because of a drought in Missouri. She is separated from her best friend Wilma but before she left Sadie made a promise that she would be Wilma’s best friend even if they were apart.
He mixes a lightness of text, sometimes with alliterative tongue-twisters and sophisticated language made up of stylized illustrations full of hilarity and details that challenge readers' point of view. The book, Animalia contains over 1,500 objects including things such as food, musical instruments, and characters as well as the featured animal for each letter. Base also includes an image of himself when he was young as an extra for the watchful eye on every page.
In the text “Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about their Religious and Cultural Perspectives” by Inés Talamantez, the author discusses the role of ceremonies and ancestral spirituality in various Native American cultures, and elaborates on the injustices native women face because of their oppressors.
Ethel Waters overcame a very tough childhood to become one of the most well known African American entertainers of her time. Her story, The Eye on the Sparrow, goes into great detail about her life and how she evolved from taking care of addicts to becoming the star of her own show. Ethel was born by her mother being raped at a young age. Her father, John Waters, was a pianist who played no role in Ethel’s life. She was raised in poverty and it was rare for her to live in the same place for over a year. Ethel never fit in with the rest of the crowd; she was a big girl, about five nine when she was a teenager, and was exposed to mature things early in her life. This is what helped shape Ethel to be the strong, independent woman she is.
Catherine is like a bird stuck in it's cage. If you hold the bird in it's cage it will want to fly out of it even if you were to put food inside. However the Bird that was not kept in its cage then it will walk right inside and eat the food. In the book, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, Catherine is the main character and is forced to do and deal with many things. Throughout the novel she is to deal with every situation to the best of her abilities and she makes the right choices, except when she doesn't. Three situations or problems she faces with courage and Determination are, she is forced to marry Shaggy Beard, Deal with the wrath of her Father, and try to avoid her lady lessons.
I am the “Red Duck”. Not an actual duck. A “red, rubber duck”. I do not have a name. (Ethel Pochocki).
During my observation in Mrs. Herd’s class I taught a phonemic lesson to the students. The phonemic lesson I chose for Mrs. Herd’s class was rhyming. During this lesson I taught the students how to identify rhyming words and how to rhyme with the ending sound /at/. The students will benefit from this lesson by gaining the ability to recognize and generate rhyming words. The strategy I used for this lesson is called “The Hungry Thing”. In this strategy the teacher reads a book to the students called The Hungry Thing by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler.
In the beginning of Papa’s Parrot, by Cynthia Rylant, the protagonist, Harry Tillian, who is the son of Mr.Tillian who owns a candy and nut shop loves his dad's store. Growing up he went there everyday after school and so did his friends. Although harry stopped liking candy and nuts at age seven he loved his dad's store. This all changed the year Harry got into junior high school. He did not come to the candy and nut shop often and neither did his friends. They went to the burger place and the arcade to play video games, they weren't little anymore, his dad got bored because no one kept him company and bought a overpriced parrot named Rocky. Whenever Harry ended school and passed by his dad's shop he saw him talking to the parrot and doing
Louise Gluck's The School Children may provide some shock for readers as it twists and turns through a school day marked by eerie abnormalities. Gluck successfully uses visual imagery to convey a deeper meaning to a fourteen-line poem about children, teachers and parents. These three groups come to life through the descriptive poem that allows readers to form their own conclusions. Though Gluck’s meaning is never clearly stated, her use of tone and imagery create an extremely visual work with three dynamic sets of characters.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Voices in the Park were published at either end of the twentieth century, a period which witnessed the creation of the modern picturebook for children. They are both extremely prestigious examples of picturebooks of their type, the one very traditional, the other surrealist and postmodern. The definition of ‘picturebook’ used here is Bader’s: ‘an art form [which] hinges on the interdependence of pictures and words, on the simultaneous display of two facing pages, and on the drama of the turning of the page’ (Bader, quoted in Montgomery, 2009, p. 211). In contrast with a simple illustrated book, the picturebook can use all of the technology available to it to produce an indistinguishable whole, the meaning and value of which is dependent on the interplay between all or any of these aspects. Moebius’s claim that they can ‘portray the intangible and invisible[. ], ideas that escape easy definition in pictures or words’ is particularly relevant to these two works.
In the novel A Bird In The House, Margaret Laurence illustrates the theme of physical entrapment. All of the characters in the novel feel the need to escape their personal situation. In fact, the title is a symbol of entrapment because of the bird that is. trapped in the house and is also trying to get out. From my background knowledge.
Melodrama can typically be looked as a form of display on excess and emotions, but it is used as a key to capturing intense feelings that would be hard to express in real life. Linda Williams established the common elements of how melodrama serves to present characters through morality and emotions by ways of pathos and action. Ben Singer explored the narrative devices through key constitutive features such as pathos, overwrought emotion, and non-classical narrative structure. Christine Gledhill looked at how melodrama works not just as a singular genre, but as a recognizable element that compliment within various genres. Some notable genres like comedy, horror, and action aim to bring out certain emotions from the audience. Comedy can make
This is a colorful book that is based off of Fisher Prices’ Little People characters. Each character has their own unique feature to them, whether they are a certain race, such as African American or Asian, whether they have glasses, whether they are a girl or boy, or what kinds of clothes they are wearing. The book’s plot follows the characters while they explore different shapes and colors that they find throughout their town on their shopping trip. The Little People share what each shape that they find is, so that the reader learns to identify that shape with its name. This is the theme of the book. For example, one of the quotes used in the book states “The grocery stores has all colors and shapes. Find a green lettuce circle and round purple grapes. Look for an orange circle.
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