This weekend, your assignment is three-fold:
1. Read and take notes on ch. 5, paying close attention to vocabulary words you run into along the way.
2. Please read each of the articles linked below, and determine the claim and
implications of each article:
"We Can't
Teach Students to Love Reading" by Alan Jacobs , from The Chronicle for Higher
Education, July 2011
"I Know Why the
Caged Bird Cannot Read" by Francine Prose, from Harper Magazine, 1999
3. Final assignment is to discuss with your parents how you learned to
read. Since they will probably have a stronger recollection of this experience
than you do, ask them about how you learned to read, what types of questions you
asked, what you were most interested in as far as particular books, stories you
liked to be told (even if they were not read to you, just told by a family
member), or what your favorite reading spots were when you were younger.
This
is meant to be a fun activity, not a stressor! If you are uncomfortable asking
your parents, or if they do not have strong memories of the occasion, try to
remember for yourself a time when you read something that made your imagination
take flight or just made you feel alive and interested in another
world.
Please bring these stories and experiences with you to class on Monday
to share (they need not be written down, just committed to memory well enough to
be retold), and, if possible, the book or a few books that you enjoyed reading
as a child!
Thanks and have a fun weekend!
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