Aspects not familiar:

• Father is still alive. No mention of him finding Snow or stopping evil Queen
• Liver and lungs instead of heart
• She ate a little bit and drank a little bit from every dish and cup. She didn’t want to over indulge on anyone plate. Snow tried every bed till she found the “just right” bed. (Do I detect a bit of Goldilocks and the Three Bears here?)
• Not until she awakes does she make the agreement to clean and maintain the house.
• Evil queen comes 3 times, 1) brings a corset and ties it tight, 2) a poisoned comb, 3) half a poisoned apple, the red side
• All seven dwarfs talk
• Prince charming doesn’t show up till the end. He asks for the coffin, dwarves give it to him, no true love kiss, as he goes down the mountain the coffin slips and bangs against the ground. The piece of apple becomes dislodged in her throat she wakes up.
• They marry and invite evil queen, force her to dance in hot iron shoes till she dies.

 

I am surprised most about the ending. The evil queen is supposedly so powerful and conniving but yet she just stands there like a deer in headlights when she walks into Snow’s feast. Than they make her their dance puppet. That doesn’t seem fitting if she could trick and poisoned Snow. Much like Disney versions the Grimm’s tales are essentially a happy ending. Grimm’s is just a bit more gruesome and not meant to be read before bed.

 

Themes:      Persevere- keep trying till you get the rightful outcome; good usually wins; women are gullible and easy; good vs. evil

If I obeyed him

I would not have been rescued

Brothers shan’t have killed

 

Cara

So I did some looking our library has Reading in the wild : the book whisperer’s keys to cultivating lifelong reading habits in their system as an ebook. Free to read as long as you’re and CSUC student.

http://iii.csuchico.edu/record=b2485315?

Is the link. Just click on “view e-book” (typed in red and in the middle of the page)  and it will take you right there.

I haven’t fully gotten to the middle. So, my apologies if the entire book isn’t there or something else goes wrong with it.

 

Howdy Y’all,

Literacy crisis is one that I have mixed emotions on. On one aspect I don’t see a huge issue. However, on the other hand I do see it. So, I have decided to meet somewhere in the middle. There is a literacy crisis but the problem is the measurement of defining the standards of being literate.

In order to begin, we need to define as to what literacy is and isn’t. Some seem to think literacy is based off of the amount of books and articles one has read. Others think it has more to do with accurate uses of grammar and spelling. Well, for me me I say it is a combination of both. With that though, there are exceptions. The major exception is culture. Every culture has their own expectations as to proper grammar and literacy. For the sake of this argument, let’s go with the average American Culture.

For the majority of cases, most of us are taught “proper” grammar and spelling in school and are told that if we don’t adhere to that we will never amount to anything. However, if you look at how today’s culture is evolving, we are becoming a 160 characters or less writers and readers. Yet, here we are making something of ourselves.

As technology progresses our wants and needs change. Not even 20 years ago the desire to have a new book out weighed the need for something electronic. Now, cultures and societies are covered with all these new fangled devices. Yes, these device have increased our reading and writing. Nonetheless, most of what we read is not considered proper literature by society standards. How I talk and write and what I read can be called average for United States school system culture but in other cultures it be construed as below average or higher than average.

Williams has a valid point, how do we assess literacy? Back when we had to take those mandatory assessment test every year, by the third year of taking them, I started to make designs with the fill in the bubble answers. I didn’t even read the questions anymore. It wasn’t that I didn’t always know the answer but more of a “this is stupid” thing again. Was I the only one? Just based off my actions, taking a standardized test will not give accurate results.

So, how do we measure for literacy? My thoughts, we can’t. We can only really measure whether someone can read and write, which is a simple yes or no. How well one reads and write isn’t comparable. Everyone is different. It is like comparing an apple to a zebra. So, we need to stop measuring our ability to read and write and just enjoy the fact we have that capability.