Review Of ' The Lorax ' By Dr. Seuss

he Tragedy of the Commons in The Lorax and Easter IslandThe Tragedy of the commons is a situation in which a publicly owned resource is exploited to such an extent that the resource is ruined. This means that users of the resource canno longer benefit from it. A uniform idea in the tragedy of the commons is that each person does not weigh the effect of their exploitation of the resource enough, resulting in the resource being over-exploited and eventually being destroyed. Two examples of the tragedy of the commons are Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, and the story of Easter Island. Although the parties involved in The Lorax and Easter Island may not have cooperated in the same ways, their environments were similarly exploited, resulting in a tragic loss of the public resource available to them. In The Lorax, the Once-ler stumbles upon a truffula forest which he finds to be perfect for his business. He begins to harvest the resources, but is constantly bothered by the Lorax. The Lorax speaks on behalf of the trees, hoping the Once-ler will halt his destructive behavior, however there is no cooperation between the Once-ler and the Lorax. This is unlike the tribes on Easter Island. The natives of Easter Island needed to trade and cooperate with each other to be able to construct the many large statues. Pakandam stated, “...resources were distributed unequally in various parts of the island, what one region lacked, another had in bountiful scores. This forced trade and cooperation as a natural part of life” (11). Although the parties in The Lorax and Easter Island did cooperate in the same way, they still lead to the exploitation of the available resources.

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a children's book about greed and destruction. The book is set in the forest of Truffula Trees. The Once-ler was riding through the country in his wagon one day and discovers the beautiful forest of Truffula Trees.

Philosophy translates literally into “love for wisdom”. This “wisdom” is categorized into 6 disciplines; Logic and Reason, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Throughout our course we focused on Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Epistemology and Logic and Reason. My selected children’s story book is The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. The book does show strong signs of Epistemology, Logic and Reason and its pictures display some theories we learned in our aesthetics unit. Knowledge and perception are apparent along with Representationism throughout the plot.

he most fundamental responsibility of schools is teaching students to read. Indeed, the future success of all students hinges upon their ability to become proficient readers. Recent scientific studies have allowed us to understand more than ever before how literacy develops, why some children have difficulty, and what constitutes best instructional practice. Scientists now estimate that fully 95 percent of all children can be taught to read. Yet, in spite of all our knowledge, statistics reveal an alarming prevalence of struggling and poor readers that is not limited to any one segment of society:

In every school across America, effective practices of reading instruction are being discussed. Calkins (2012) suggests that over 85% of students being tested on grade level literacy standards are non-proficient. Research suggests that students, who are unable to read proficiently by third grade, are not predicted to ever learn to read or have successful lives when they reach adulthood (Martinez, 2008). For these reasons, it is important that districts implement literacy models and instructional reforms that have been well researched and shown to be successful. The instructional reform method of Balanced Literacy is being used throughout the country to meet the challenging standards of the Common Core. Teachers will need

Reason for referral: Currently struggling to read fluently and apply content of text to correctly answer reading comprehension questions.

This is a very important component in education to be aware of and when you are a teacher. I interviewed a first-grade teacher at my local elementary school to gain more information about the processes that our local schools go through for professional training, interventions, and in the classroom to ensure that students are developing their abilities in reading. My main focus was on what our school’s process was, how support is given, professional training offered, and what more is needed to be done to increase success for students.

(Counselors Affecting Reading Everyday). My plan would involve developing one-on-one counseling sessions where the students would start off by taking a learning style inventory as well as a reading interest inventory. The purpose of the learning style inventory would be to help the students as well as their teachers to understand how each individual child learns and processes information. The reading interest inventory would serve the purpose of helping the students to find a particular type of text that they may enjoy reading. Upon completion of the learning style inventory and reading interest inventory, the students would begin meeting with the counselor to receive one-on-one reading opportunities using books that students self-select based on their interest. This one-on-one meeting will serve to meet the needs of those students who stated that they did not have anyone at home to read with. The students will utilize the school’s Accelerated Reading program to take quizzes on the books they read with the counselor. After earning their first five Accelerated Reading points, a book will be purchased for the student based on their interest. This incentive plan will serve as a means to provide personal books for those students that do not own any as well as attempting to help them to get over the fear or taking reading tests. During these weekly meetings, the counselor will provide a variety of reading text (based on student

This paper will address the best plan for helping Joe, an 8 year old 2nd grader meet the goals designed for him by his teacher. Joe receives Title 1 reading tutoring and I will focus on strategies for helping Joe meet each of his goals. Joe has the ability to meet each of the three goals set for him, but it will take time, consistency and some adjustments from his teachers and himself.

Creating and implementing effective lessons for a literacy learner who is struggling with reading and writing takes much effort and appropriate resources. Throughout the Literacy Development course, I have gained much insight and resources that have become valuable tools in addressing students’ literacy needs. Each week, I conducted lessons and activities that targeted the needs of many students, but my initial focus on was on one particular student. His individual reading level, spelling development, and writing abilities were analyzed and the recorded data was used

Dr. Seuss is a well known writer who wrote many children 's books which had many double meanings that intrigued adults as well. Many of Dr. Seuss works could be looked at as controversial and might be seen as him pushing his own agenda onto his readers; none did this more than his story, The Lorax. Looking specifically at The Lorax, which was turned in a movie, we can see there is real world issues behind the artists writing for the children. A capitalist economy creates the greedy and self indulging business person, who just wants to keep getting richer. In the United States of America, many people have grown up with Darwinism being a telling motto for life, survival of the fittest. This meaning, the rich get richer and poor get poorer, but survival of the fittest sounds much better for the rich person. In today’s society, the average human is not informed and just goes with what they are told to be true by the media. As many realize, the media is likely corrupt and the absolute truth may not always come to the forefront. Like in the movie, The Lorax, it takes one brave soul to go against the big corporation to change society for the better. An example of this would be when Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement and stood up against the powerful United States government to gain equality. Dr. King highlighted the power that one man or one small group can do to bring positive change even if it is “David versus Goliath.” To what extent if any, is it morally

English is my second language because I was not born in the United States. Reading is a difficult task for me since I was 10 years old. When I was in Elementary School, I like to read books with a lot of pictures because I can understand the story much better. I started to read Dr. Seuss’s books, it is the book for beginner with short poems, colorful pictures and rhyming words. The stories in the Dr. Seuss can help me learn new words. The stories behind the book are teaching the readers useful lesson addressing issues in the society. The issue can be simple as protecting our environment because human are destroying it by cutting trees and polluted the air in “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss’s newest version of The Lorax brings to light the importance of caring for your environment. Ted is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in Thneedville, a place where nature does not exist. The trees are fake, there are no insects, and the best of all is that air is sold in a can. Ted is sent off to see the Onceler by his grandmother to find out where he can get the last Truffula tree seed so he can impress his crush, Audrey. Ted’s biggest rival throughout the film is Mr. O’Hare, the man who coined the idea of selling canned fresh air because there are no trees to produce it for free.

Most of the other students in her 2nd grade classroom are able to read classroom text and complete work independently. They also read books for enjoyment on their own. The reading time in her classroom consists of a block during which the teacher works with small groups and the children are expected to work quite independently when they are not working directly with the teacher. The class uses a trade book format and this is utilized across the curriculum. Students are provided with short skills building lessons in large and small groups. Most of the time spent during explicit reading instruction is targeted to helping students develop reading fluency.

Dr. Seuss did not want his books to sound dogmatic. He wanted to help children learn how to read and think. He thought that his draft for the Lorax didn’t speak to the kids as much as much as he had hoped it would and thought that it was instead just “telling” children how to think and act. He wanted his message of the book to be about the treatment of the environment. His wife, Helen, suggested that they take a break and visit Africa. Once there, Dr. Seuss watched men chop down trees and thus invented the Truffula trees and the Lorax who speaks for those trees. Dr. Seuss also seemed to modify his color palate, shifting from his use of primary colors to colors such as fuchsia, purple, and orange. In his book, the bright colors were meant to