My Common Read Experience

Read excerpt # 3 The Anasazi: Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde and excerpt # 4 The Mississippians: Cahokia and Moundville (pp.29-33) by following the link Pre-Columbian America (Learner.org). Type responses to the following questions on Google Doc and save.

During our lives we come across many difficult times in which we learn important skills. However, our actions choose what skills we've gained. For instance, a person who makes rational choices, keeps aware of what these choices do, and never letting the situation over take them have the characteristics of a resilient perosn. People with resilience have a way of dealing with problems in the most effective way possible, like Louie Zamperini, who was lost at sea for months after his plane malfunctioned and crashed. His fight for survival brought forth these traits and caused him to outlive his situation.

Medicine has been developed and discovered for thousands of years; however, the 1920’s was the first decade that fashioned a pathway for new developments and discoveries. Medical professionals have taken a huge hit for their fight in finding new inventions that can save patients from death’s hands. In the 1920’s, medicine has also taken a tremendous leap in controlling fatal diseases such as diabetes (Pendergast 110). Medicine in the 1920’s has altered the way medicine is shaped today; furthermore, the development and discovery of the iron lung, penicillin, and insulin were the first pertinent breakthroughs in medical history (“Iron” par. 7; Grimsley par. 15; “Banting” par. 13).

In this week’s reading, Anna Harrington uses a quote from Victor Frankel: “The last of human freedoms… is the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. What a great way of restating, “Your response is your responsibility.” (Eggerichs, 2014). She communicates some ideas about resiliency she calls elements: emotional, spiritual, social, family, and physical. (Harrington, 2012).

Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. It is the ability to bounce back, no matter what kind of object or person. As Margaret Thatcher said, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young Wiesel and his family are taken from their hometown, Sighet, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this book, Wiesel relives and tells the horrors and nightmares of what his friends, family, and himself went through while in the camps.

The author portrays the message and theme of persistence, resilience, and grit throughout the entire story. We understand

Directions: Circle the number that indicates the use of this best practice schoolwide using the following rating scale:

As a person who generally loves to read, I did not find it enjoyable, and I know others who agree with me or who didn’t even bother to read it at all. I would also suggest more mixing of groups: I spent a lot of time with my group during the schedule, and it was up to me to take initiative to meet others out of my group. As someone who is generally not shy, this was not an issue for me, but I am concerned about the more shy incoming students who have a harder time branching

By creating a student case report, a teacher of reading can develop a holistic understanding of a child's reading development. The benefits of keeping a case report include having diagnostic, formative, and summative data on a student's reading progress combined with anecdotal and teacher observational data which provides contextual information on the student. Therefore, allowing the educator to make more informed instructional decisions regarding a reader as well as provide the most accurate and detailed information to parents and other stakeholders (such as special education professionals or educational psychologists) as needed. With a case report, such as an Informal Reading Inventory, the educator can build on a wealth of knowledge about the readers' holistic literacy (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary) in order to determine what the next steps will be for the reader.

As a reader and writer I always faced given assignments with the intent of doing exceptional jobs and take a sense of pride in my work to complete my tasks. As a reader, I will bore myself through out an entire book and realize I didn 't understand a single thing. Although as a writer, I can go on for so long losing myself on a topic because it feels more interactive. Reflecting on my experiences as a reader and writer have been very bold, I never really found a joy or an interest to become the exceptional student who stands out amongst others because, I always felt ok with myself and my results with the way I did things.

In the United States of America, the death penalty has been carried out in more humane ways than other countries. Our country inherited our death penalty laws from the British when they settled here in the sixteenth century (DIPC). America in the past used, lethal injection, electrocution, hanging and gas chambers. Oklahoma was the first state to implement lethal injection; but Texas was the first to use the tedious process. It requires strapping the inmate down to a gurney, then having a member of the execution team put heart monitors on their body, then putting a needle in usable veins in each arm. Long tubes connect to several intravenous drips. The first thing to go through the tubes is saline, then when given the signal the inmate is injected

The objectives of Reading the Easy Way are to help inform and enlighten the public, to narrow down the knowledge gap between writers and the average reader, and to encourage the public to read. Each article in this booklet is written in a way to teach the public about an important topic in an easy to read and understand way. My goal and hope is to encourage people to read and to help readers better understand the material covered in any article they read.

So few days back, I woke up around 4:30 in the morning and was sitting in the living room browsing through quora on my laptop.

Armbruster describes fluency as student ability to read quickly and accurately (Armbruster 2001). Often times both educators and students are misunderstood at what it truly means for a student to be a fluent reader. In many cases there is emphasis on the quickness, nevertheless a neglect on the accuracy required for students to be fluent readers. Fluency may be one of the most essential stages in aiding students to grow and develop as readers. There is a large gap that must be bridged between Phonics and Comprehension. Repetition is a key feature in allowing students to develop the skills to bridge the gap. Tomkins says “Students become fluent readers once they recognize most words automatically and read quickly and with expression” (Armbruster 2001). Effective instructors facilitate students to become more fluent by focusing on decoding, using content clues, and teaching comprehension.

George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the modern era. Though he is best known as a playwright, Shaw was also a respected critic, journalist, novelist, and essayist. A noted social reformer, Shaw wrote plays which dramatized social commentaries, and in 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.