The Reader

Overview  Working title: “Readers of the Holocaust”  Tagline: This brief documentary follows a graduate student’s exploration of an unusual choice of textbooks in a high school classroom: graphic novels.  Estimated length: 15-20 minutes  Proposed date of completion: April 21st, 2016 Introduction: Goals and Voice of the Documentary  The overarching question I ask in this film is how graphic novels about Holocaust and other events of genocide are enabling experiential learning in high school…

read one article every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and we were to discuss it in class. In our Reader-Writer Notebook we were instructed to record a response of 150 words describing the article and our thoughts about the article. As we advanced throughout the different articles we read, we were to better our writing in our notebook and hopefully expand our knowledge as a reader. Currently for the Reader-Writer Notebook I have done every entry which has totaled up to be 14 articles not including…

In Rasinki’s The Fluent Reader, he outlines the importance of repeated reading when improving fluency skills. Repeated reading gives children the opportunity to practice what they have read and work on comprehension, intonation and accuracy. One strategy shown in the text is called radio reading. Radio reading is similar to that of round robin reading, but it places emphasis on collaboration. They are similar in the sense that they use a systematic approach, which will help students practice…

trees to build their homes. When the animals are big enough others can hunt them for food. It is a chain of connections in life. The bonds can also be formed through a written language. For instance, the readers and the writers can create a connection amongst each other. The connection between readers and writers is formed when they both understand the necessary requirements for the bond to be present. If one fails to put their part, then the connection might not…

is nothing for the reader to connect to, which leads to them becoming uninterested and putting down the book. Based on “The Hook” by K.M. Weiland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of “The Sign of the Four” has successfully written a good hook. Doyle opens the novel with the main character, Sherlock Holmes, and then he immediately makes the reader ask themselves a question while simultaneously setting the tone. His approach to the novel leaves enough mystery to make the reader want to continue…

examining and analysing “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer from a reader response perspective allows the reader to bring personal traits, memories and experiences to the text, forces the reader to look past the words in search for a deeper meaning, and it allows readers to see different perspectives of others while reading. It is fairly easy to connect with Krakauer on a personal level because, he is a very descriptive author allowing the reader to connect with him emotionally, he is very reliable…

texts have a common thread of Singapore, the reader is shocked by the contrasting viewpoints that the texts offer on the same city of Singapore. While the audience of both texts is people who are looking for insightful information on Singapore, the purposes vary greatly. Text 1 aims to persuade the reader to not visit Singapore, describing it as a rather dystopian city where "rats are rewarded" (line 20). On the other hand, text 2 aims to persuade readers to visit Singapore, describing…

article is structured around her emotional story so that pathos enables the reader to emotionally connect and bond with her. The usage of metaphorical language, imagery, and first person aids the reader in comprehending her viewpoint and developing trust in her advise. All these rhetorical devices help the readers process and think about what the author is saying. The devices create pathos throughout the article making the readers more susceptible to believe her argument.…

It was once said, “The art of the storyteller is to hold the attention of the readers.” If a novelist is able to grab the attention of the readers, they can easily convey ideas and themes represented in the story successfully to its’ readers. For instance, Zora Neale Hurston is considered to be a brilliant writer, who has the ability to form a storytelling chain within her novels and to “render a world complete with its codes and disciplines within a few sentences” (Danticat). This is shown in…

The Mind Readers is about love, family, mystery, but most of all betrayal. I found this book browsing through the kindle store and got it as an eBook. Cameron Winters, the story’s main character, has believed that her and her grandma were the only mind readers her entire life. She was also told her parents were dead. That is until she finds that her grandmother had lied to her all these years. Cameron hated her life, moving states every year or two, always running from something she didn’t know.…