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!