Happy Meal commercial.

I think the Happy Meal commercial was some that would be very beneficial for my students. That is something I could show them and they could see the many shots that it takes to make a commercial. Also it is something that would connect to their lives, so they might be more likely to want to learn from it or to be interested in what I am talking about when it has to deal with a McDonald commercial than if I showed them something that they could not connect with. Also if I had them make a video with the toys from the happy meals I think the kids would love that! it also teaches them about gender roles and how those gender roles can be broken.

Literacy Moves On - Chapters 1-5

The first chapter focused on Multimodal texts which I found very interesting since that is really what we were working on with at MRP pieces. This allowed the students and the reader of the MRP papers to look beyond just the research and see the deeper elements that are going on in the topica t hand. This really helped me to see that students might learn more from more indepth complicated assigments instead of just having them do worksheets and answer questions that are not critical thinking. It would probably benefit my students and much more if we looked at the deeper meaning behind what we are learning instead of just skimming the stop and staying on the surface of what we are trying to learn which I think really takes place quite often.

Literacy Moves On- Chapters 6-10

This read was interesting to me because my mom and I use to collect beanie babies. and it talked about the beanie baby fad. This was interesting to me because I think that my students would really like to learn about things like this in the classroom. Learning through beanie babies!? How fun! I would have loved to look at the beanie baby fad when i was a student and try to find out why this fad happened and what the marketers did to make this such a big deal! I fell for it hook line and sinker because I have a closet of over 1000 beanie babies that are now worthless. So even now as an adult I would like to take a look at this and see how they made simple stuffed animals worth so much!

MRP Reflection

I think that I learned a lot from the MRP. I would definitely do these with my students in my classrooms. It was very helpful to see all of these from the same research topic because it helps you to get the whole story about the topic that you researched. Children would love to do this because it could be about something that interested them. They could then look at all the aspects that are involved in their topic and make a very detailed project that they can show to other people. It can also help other people see their research better than just a paper because that can get boring, but the way we presented the MRP would interesting people and make them want to see your reasearch and learn about your topic.

SeedFolk.

I think that Seedfolk was a very interesting book. It was very cool to see how all of these characters from different backgrounds were tied together through this simple garden. It brought a whole community together, and this community was so diverse and so different from each other that it was amazing that something so simple could bring them together. And also once it brought them together it seemed that many of them were sort of embarrassed that they were not friends before this. There are many things with diversity, culture, and community that my students could learn from this book. Even though it is sort of a complex read it is all a very short and easy read. I feel like the fact that it is an easy read helps with the underlying complexitiy of the story and that my students could learn from this book very easily. I am totally putting it in my list of books to introduce to children in my future classroom.

donut shop Literacy

This was amazing! I was really impressed by the things that we come up with today in class that had to do with this donut shop literacy. we took only a short amount of time to come up with something and they were so great! I cant imagine if you gave kids a longer amount of time to work on them, what they could come up with! It would be extraordinary! We did an advertisement and it was so much fun and it was very valuable to try to think about what an advertiser is doing when they put an ad together. I will probably never take an ad at face value again. I will probably always study it and wonder what they are trying to get me to buy and what marketing they used to go about trying to get me to buy it!

Research topic for my MRP paper.

I think that I am going to do my research paper on censorship in the classroom. I think that this is something that is a real issue and effects many classrooms. I was in a classroom when I was in the 5th grade that wanted to read the Giver. Many parents were up in arms about how this book was not appropriate and talked about things that we should not know at that age. My mom signed off on a permission slip saying that I was allowed to read the book. I got to go into a special room with 5 other students parents who let them read it as well and we read the book and discussed it. I learned so much from this book and it is still sitting on my book shelf this very day. I felt that my parents trusted me and my teacher to present this book in a good way and to learn from it. I feel that censorship is a very important topic that I would love to research about.