English 341 has been a REWARDING class plus a bonus of the most passionate and greatest personality professor Dr. Kim Jaxon. She is the greatest! This class has taught me many things that I feel has prepared me well for my future career to come. It has helped me to broaden my perspectives in different book genres such as poetry, comics, and fairy tales. I have learned how to incorporate the different book genres into lesson plans that can be useful in reading and writing. For example, poetry can help students to learn how to rhyme, how to form sentences, and how to read aloud. From the fairy tale books that we read in class, I can use them for students to learn how to compare and contrast the different stories. I also learned how to make a website page. This will be very helpful in the future as to when I have my own classroom. I can have a homepage about my class and share it with my student’s parents from the things we do and learn in class.  There are many possible ways I can do with things I have learned in this class. It has given me great knowledge and skills. I am thankful for Dr. Jaxon who was able to present these wonderful books and technology to us. It has been an eye-opening experience in this class. I loved everything we did in this class and this professor made this one of the best class I ever had in college.

P.S. Thank You for all that you have done DR. Kim Jaxon! Have an adventurous Summer Break :) Take care, until next time…

Chia

In this book, I found the author wanting the readers to talk about achieving goals, childhood games, and childhood stories/places. The author reflects back a lot to the 80’s and I think that those who were around the 80’s or born around the 80’s can relate to this book very much. Even though I wasn’t born in the 80’s I found myself knowing some of the video games and things he mentions.

I was able to relate to some of the games he mentions in the book for example the game Street Fighter II. I remember playing this game back in childhood years. As he mentions these games I was able to reflect it back to my life and that really helped me to better understand the book and the character of the main protagonist.

The book seems to hold the childhood around the 80’s though I wasn’t around this time but, a later time though I was able to relate back to my life.

I think that the book portrayal of the world of the character was both mirror reality and realm of fantasy. As I read the book I can see that it’s not just this character but, people all around face struggles, goals that they want to achieve, and fantasy on things we want.

I think that the purpose of the book is to give the audience an exploration of a fantasy world with a character that enhances a strong personality who seeks to fulfill his goal. I believe that this book falls in the fantasy and new realism categories.

In Versaci article, “How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature: One’s Teachers Perspective” she argues that comic have help her students enjoy literature more than before. As she states, “One significant outcome of closure is that readers are able to sympathize and empathize with comic book characters in unique ways, as evidenced by my experience with the Callahan piece”.

In Scott McCloud’s talk on TED, he talks about comic illustration. Comic visions in time and focus on matching the captions to the drawing. It changes the direction in reading.

I found that the genre series that I read for this class has been an eye opening experience but, it was hard to read and follow compare to other reading that we have done for this class and my other outside classes. When I read the book it made me slow down my pace of read by not just reading but, also looks at each individual illustration as well. I plan to use comic and graphic novels to help my students with literature and reading. I feel that it will be a great start for my students to use when learning to write and being able to illustrate to match with their description.

 

In this poem, William sees a red wheel barrow it might remind him of a childhood memory that he once came upon filled with rain water during the raining season by the white chicken barn. I think so because it’s an image that I can see with these four short phrases.

so much depends upon

a red rose garden

moist in the morning dew

next to the brown fence

—-Chia Lor