Burn After Reading

a story of healing and regret. Though I have never meet Brent Runyon, the way he tells his story, allows you to get to know him in a miraculous way. The Burn Journals is a journey through Brent’s own biggest mistake and recovery from it. The reason that makes this book a personal favorite of mine, is how Brent explains that after he tried to burn himself alive, he realized how much the little things mattered. While in the hospital he complains about missing ice cream. Once out of the hospital…

The following week with my case study student, I administered an informal oral comprehension assessment, by reading him the book, The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg. I first showed him the book and asked him to identify what the title of the book was and who wrote the book. Based of the title and the illustration on the cover page, I asked my student to make a prediction based on the provided information. Considering the basics of the book that he was given, his prediction about the…

parts, reading and writing. Both of which I have had different experiences of. Reflecting off my past experience reading was the more challenging one out of the two. I have always enjoyed writing and learning how to express myself on paper. For those reasons, I will be exploring both of these literacies separately. Ten years ago, me being around eight years old, sitting in a reading circle with my fellow classmates. It comes to be my turn to take on the next paragraph of the book we were reading…

learned basic reading form one of his mistress Sofia Auld. He managed to further his education form outside resources since his wife forbids Sofia form teaching him. Malcom X, who also had semi similar background when it comes to education thought him self-writing in a way he sound literate. Although Malcom X revived education it was very limited since he has to move from time to time as he was kid and he dropped out after his father and white People murdered uncles. He learned his reading and…

After hearing grandfather’s last words, telling him to “go to the island”, Jacob comes face to tentacle with the monster that had killed his grandfather. No one believes Jacob’s story about how the monster killed his grandfather. Jacob begins to get depressed…

The adventure begins on a plane, flying over the clouds and the Himalayas. As the passengers admired the view, Eric was thinking about somewhere else. His thought of navigating in 1933 in a beautiful paradise have referred to in James Hilton’s book where he called it Shangri-La, a utopian world separate from us and where only lucky souls can go. Some of these wanted to leave it, but Conway, a character with whom Eric relates and envies, didn’t. Eric Weiner lived in India in the 1990s as he was…

Eli’s little brother, and Olivia, the youngest. Eli is eight, Hunter is six, and Olivia is five. One day the parents had to leave for a work convention. During that day, they got into a car accident and died. The kids didn’t know this till the day after. The cops came to their house and said that “For now on, your Aunt Scarlet will take care of you here.”. Aunt Scarlet is sisters…

Madiha is six years old. Her birthday is March twenty-ninth. Madiha enjoys reading books and doing her homework. She loves to play with her friends. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to…

Lennie, Candy and Crooks all had these problems which caused them several problems on the farm. If they wouldn’t have these impairments then they would live an easier life on the farm, but they have to do a lot of work with the problems they have. They just had to learn how to deal with them and work through them so that they can make their money. Well Candy and Crooks are the ones who have the impairments that gave them problems when they were working on the farm. Lennie mostly had mental…

The American Dream: Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's work, Of Mice and Men, is a vivid depiction of The American Dream, where the desire for an unknown fate lies within a harsh reality. The use of striking imagery in Of Mice and Men contributes to the thematic focus around the American Dream. Steinbeck utilizes symbolism and motifs to convey the reality the characters face while on their journey to an unsettling future...their American Dream. Of Mice and Men takes place in a powerful,…