tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50634812011-04-21T12:22:48.287-07:00FunJoriahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08125364498903159508noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063481.post-892783372003-02-17T18:54:00.000-08:002003-02-17T18:54:04.683-08:002/17/2003 6:46:29 PM | Joriah Dering] <br /> Illuminating Texts-Jim Burke <br /> How to Teach Students to Read the World <br /> Ch.4-Reading a Test <br /> I decided to write a brief blogg entry about this chapter in Burke’s book because I think it is a very important issue. Chapter <br /> four talks about different types of tests, the reason certain tests are given, such as state mandated testes, and it most <br /> importantly talks about the specific language tests are written in. Burke explains that the education system needs to start <br /> approaching tests differently especially if this is going to be the major judge of progress and improvement. Burke tells us <br /> that there is a need for students to be guided through the testing process as a whole. There needs to be a greater <br /> understanding of what is going to be expected from students before we just throw them to the wolves. The chapter <br /> explains that it doesn’t go into the specific solutions, but that its point is to spark awareness on this topic so that teachers <br /> can start making the testing process a less dreadful experience for everyone, I agree. <br /> <br /> [edit] <br /> <br /> [2/17/2003 6:05:12 PM | Joriah Dering] <br /> Brief Blogg on the concerns of teaching The Adrian Mole Diaries. <br /> <br /> I have been reading the Adrian Mole Diaries off and on and I can't seem to put the book down, or finish it either. It is <br /> a great book that I think readers, of all ages, can relate to on many different levels. The book brings up topics such <br /> as alcoholism, sex, abuse, loneliness just to name a few. The book deals with the anxieties that thirteen year old <br /> children deal with on a day to day basis through the eyes of one thirteen year old in particular, Adrian. Adrian’s diary <br /> is very serious, funny, witty, and honest and that is what I think is appealing to its readers, but our class, Eng 294, <br /> had some interesting things to say about it. Many students voiced their concerns about the book as a text because <br /> they thought that it might be inappropriate for students in junior high. Some students thought that they might run <br /> into trouble with parents over some of the topics in the book. I thought that these students made valid points and <br /> that real life is a touchy subject, but that if you were careful with these topics and your teaching and took the <br /> proper steps to insure that you as a teacher wouldn’t get in trouble for teaching and unauthorized book, then I think <br /> the positive connection that the students would make with this book far out way the fears of teaching it. <br /> <br /> [edit] <br /> <br /> [2/10/2003 9:20:06 PM | Joriah Dering] <br /> Figuring out how to log in the blog. <br /> Started the semester off with a lot of assigned reading and have now just started to get a handle on the task at <br /> hand. I hope to get going and to stay on schedual. We are corresponding with some eigth grade students through a <br /> pen pal style journal and I think it will be rather intersting. I am also starting a book called the Adrian Mole Diaries. I <br /> don't know what to expect except that it is in the form of a diarie and that the only other book that I have ever read <br /> that used this same form was, Go Ask Alice, and it was very eye opening and it really gave the reader a look into <br /> the life of a particular group of adolecsents. <br /> Joriah <br /> [edit]<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5063481-89278337?l=joriahmd.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joriahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08125364498903159508noreply@blogger.com