Nonfiction

1) I have never chosen to read a nonfiction book on my own time because when I think nonfiction I oftentimes think of something boring and dry. The ones I have read have been strictly informational and in general very uninteresting. However, I am excited to read a biography as as of late there have been quite a few I have wanted to read and I think I will find them more interesting than what I traditionally associate with nonfiction books. 2) I am reading the memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. I think a memoir can be desireable as it is a direct reflection of someone's experience which can be more relatable and raw rather than someone simply listening off facts and details. I think from reading a memoir one can learn…

see their children dead (Didion 13).’” Joan Didion utilizes this quote from Euripedes in her memoir Blue Nights which addresses the death of her daughter, Quintana , and it reminds that reader that losing a child is considered one of the hardest things a person could ever go through. For Didion this loss was only made more crippling because of it’s close proximity to the death of her husband, which occurred less than two years earlier. Within the pages of the memoir, Didion works on coming to…

1. My hypothetical class is a creative writing class for high school seniors (17-18 years old) and there are fourteen students in the class. The class has a good grasp on writing poetry, minimal experience writing non-fiction and fiction stories with and without dialogue, and are extremely comfortable sharing their pieces with me (the teacher) and their classmates. They do not however, have experience with merging fiction and non-fiction, so that is a major accomplishment goal with this piece.…

what taught and how students responded to this instruction. I thought phonics was the key factor to teaching kids how to read, that nonfiction texts were meant solely for higher level reading, reading assignments were best determined based upon reading level only, answering questions after reading was best for comprehension, and that our current academic system fails to actually teach kids how to read. Throughout the course there have been several instances during class and online sessions that…

The lyric essay is a complex piece of literature to write and to read. Combining the facts of nonfiction and the art of poetry isn’t the easiest thing to understand. With facts being surrounded by figurative language, the reason the author is writing the lyric essay seems to get lost. The reader has to pick out the important parts of the quickly shifting topic to interpret the true message of the lyric essay. With all these elements considered, the essay “Music Lives” by Taylor Tranberg can…

Embedded Intervention: Classroom Observation I am in a Kindergarten classroom at University Meadows Elementary School. I am observing in Ms. Collman’s classroom. It is a smaller classroom consisting of only 17 children. Ms. Collman is the only teacher for her classroom. Angelina, the only child with a disability, has a one-on-one nurse who helps Ms. Collman with tasks such as keeping children on task, in line, behavior management, and an extra set of eyes during recess. Ms. Collman is great…

Having students interact with the text that he or she reads is pivotal. Educators must inform his or her students that while he or she reads, it is important for students to make connections: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, and Text-to-World—such connections can be made my completing a transactional journal assignment. A transactional journal derived from Louise Rosenblatt’s idea: “Who explained reading as a transactional process that occurs between the text and the reader” (“Transactional Reading…

you don’t read you can’t get anywhere in life. So they made it a priority to read. Back in Nigeria I read many books like Mrs. Bello it is a Nigerian novel that many people but Nigerians will not know, but many Nigerians read it growing up. I don’t remember much about the book but my brother has told me good things about it. Even though I grew up reading I never really liked it. My parents would always try to enforce the habit of reading in me, whenever I say I want to relax the will alway…

Genre Nonfiction: Autobiography This story was written by Ishmael, and it describes events in his life. The events take place from his early teens to his late teens. Setting The setting is Sierre Leone during the 1990’s. The story mentions towns such as: Mogbwemo, Mattru Jong, and Freetown. The setting is integral because Ishmael goes into detail about the time and place. Characters Ishmael Beah- Ishmael is both the protagonist and the antagonist of the story. He…

Know Your Writing Mission Choosing a type of writing that is close to your heart, provides you with a purpose or a mission. Whether it is widely known or not, every writer has a mission. For some it is fiction, and for others, nonfiction. With a firmly established mission, you write with more zeal. When trying to find your mission, write what you prefer (fiction, nonfiction or both), not what others think you should write. Only you can decide the direction of your writing, its meaning or…