Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Final Thoughts

I found this class to be extremely informative and enjoyable. I truly believe that I will take all this information that I learned in this course and use it as a future teacher. I feel like I've really learned a lot about different types of genres and the importance of introducing a range of genres to students.

In addition, I found the books we read extremely enjoyable. Hunger Games was my favorite, followed by The Book Thief. I literally couldn't put down Hunger Games until I had finished it in about 3 days. I can't really place what exactly it was that I enjoyed so much; it was just really well written and exciting and I really connected with the main characters. I actually felt like I was there in the story and knew the characters. The Book Thief was really good to me too. I found it very interesting to see the life of a little girl in Nazi Germany. Typically in books about this time, it's about the Holocaust or about the war itself. But this book was more about how the war affected people not really involved in the war, a.k.a. citizens. In this book I also felt connected with the characters, almost as if I knew them and was in the story.

All in all, I am very pleased with this course and everything I learned from it. I am a very avid reader, and I am thankful that I had the opportunity to be shown these books that we read. I can say for sure that I am going to finish reading the Hunger Games series in the VERY near future, and I hope that I'll have the opportunity to present it to my future students in the classroom.

3 comments:

  1. I also enjoyed this class a lot. It taught me a a lot of things about genres I didn't know. I have learned about them before and afraid it was going to be repetitive but it wasn't, the class had made me more knowledgeable for genres. I also thought it was very interesting critiquing children's books and how much the book really says, I would have never known you could get so much out of some silly little picture book.

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  2. I also enjoyed this class a lot. Before taking TE 348, I never realized how many genres there were in children's literature.
    I also found the books to be extremely enjoyable. I never was a big reader and hated when I was assigned a reading for a class. The books for this class have changed me. My favorite book was The Book Thief, until I read the Hunger Games. I even asked for the following two books of the trilogy for Christmas. Thank you for introducing me to another side of literature that I actually enjoy!

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  3. Along with everyone else, I enjoyed this class. I learned a lot about the multitude of genres and how important each and every one of them are. This class also opened my eyes to how important reading is for a child's development. I see now that reading is a key aspect for a child's education. I myself do not enjoy reading all that much largely due to the fact that I was not read to a lot growing up. As a future teacher I plan on incorporating as much reading as I can into my lessons.

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