In this course I
learned the genres in the story. After having a PowerPoint and an assignment on
genres it gave me a better chance to know what genres where. Some of the genres
that are in books are horror, romantic, fiction, non-fiction, mystery and much
more. The genre talks about the type of writing it is in the story or even a
film. My favourite genres are romantic and mystery. A story can have more than
one genre mentioned in the story but usually there is only one genre in the
story.
EAC273 Blog
Tuesday 11 August 2015
Journal 9
As a child one of
my favourite books I used to read all the time was the Berenstain bears series. I
loved reading those books because they were a TV show that used to come on
called the Berenstain bears. The books were related to the TV show and when I would
read the books than I would watch the TV shows. Still as a grown up today I watch
the berestain bears with my siblings on the TV and have read most of the books.
When I was little I had a collection of the books and would always take them
out from the library because I loved watching and reading the books. What I loved about
those series was that it would always teach children a lesson of doing
something right and what is wrong for them. For example, one of the book is
called Too Much TV in that book it talks about how too much TV is not good for
you and what else you can do instead of watching TV.
Journal 8
As a child they
way I used to read books were with my siblings. We had lots of books at home
when were children so with my siblings I used to play library. One of sister
would be the librarian me and my other sister would go and pick out books from
the library; we were allowed to take out 3 books each day. After we were done
picking out the books we would sit down in my room and then read the books for
at least half an hour. This would be the way I used to read books as a child
with my siblings and alone in a fun way. I still remember those days because now
I hardly read books because I don’t have time; maybe once in awhile I would
read a book that is really interesting. Some of the books I remember reading is
Green eggs and ham, Arthur, Franklin and Clifford. In our library we used to
have all sorts of books even in different language. It was really fun reading
books in a great way and getting experience to read books in a different way as
well.
Journal 7
In this course
when we had read the story called “A new life” by Rukhsana Khan it was really interesting
to me because I had the same experience when I immigrated to Canada. In this
book two siblings Khadija and Hamza come to Canada from Pakistan leaving their home
country. This story is about how the 2 children and their family are facing struggles
of setting into a new country and beginning a new life. The family also
experience many difficulties such as fitting in a new environment learning a
new language, making new friends. I believe that this story is an example to
most people when they came to a new country and how they must have felt. I
relate this story to my own life because when I came new to Canada I didn’t
understand English and was having a hard time fitting into the environment because
back home it was different.When we come new
to any country it is really tough for everyone to settle down in the environment
it takes time to get used to the environment and people there.
Journal 6
Some of the
children books we have read and discussed in this course which I found interesting were called Where the wild things are, Red is Best, How smudge came, Good night moon,
The paper bag princess. When we were reading these books in class I had learned
what the elements in the story were and the important symbols in the stories. I noticed
that the children books had pictures in them and simple text but as the books
got for older children the text became more and pictures were less. When we had
talked about the children’s books in this course I had learned a lot from them
such as where the wild things are I learned that the boy imagines going the
other world where the wild things are and become the ruler for the animals,
which is all his imagination. I learned that the book would be appropriate for
the children and they can see the different animals in the story. In this
course I loved reading children’s books because in my field that I am going to
is working with children and books are important so in this course I have been
experienced to many children’s books which are a great thing.
Journal 5
After reading the shepherd’s granddaughter we had a
group discussion about the book. We were assigned an in class assignment in groups
to make a map locating places mention in the story to our own imagination. As a
group we had a discussion of where we would mark each location; such as Amani’s
house, Seedo and Sitti’s house and Hani and Fatima’s house. We had to mark the
most important places in the story that had been on the assignment sheet. As a
group we couldn’t decided where to mark the places on the map we had drew. We
went through difficulties when making the map we kept on erasing the places
that we would mark on the map. We had made 3 maps because we kept on removing
and then adding locations to it. Finally we had marked all the locations on the
map and gave it our best work than we decided to hand it. It was really
complicated drawing a map and putting all the locations in the map with our
imagination.
Journal 4
In this course when we watched the Movie Bridge to
the Terabithia it was a really great experience. I really loved how the story
in the movie went and the importance in the story. When I had watched the movie
the third time in class and discussed the movie together than I had realized
the important in the story what some of the things in the story meant. Before
when i had watched the movie i had never realized those things but when I had
watched the third time I had understand what some of the objects mean in the
story. This movie had many symbolisms that I had noticed one of it was when
Jesse had built the bridge to the Terabithia. He had built the bridge so his
sister has safe way to go on the other side. He wanted to protect his sister
from falling down the way Leslie had fallen when she was crossing the rope to
go to the other world but die. The bridge meant going to a new world and
begging a new life after Leslie had died for Jesse. What I had found interesting in the story was
when Jesse and Leslie had both built the imaginary world together, and how
Leslie had bough light into Jesse life. I had really loved watching this movie
and would love to watch it over and over again.
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