Starbucks Podcast
I learned how to record, edit, and upload a podcast. I didn’t realize how much work went into it, but I finally was able to shortcut my work when I wrote a script.
Literacy Moment 2
I loved school before I entered kindergarten. Preschool was easy; I had friends in class, naptime, dress up costumes, and best of all, we had story time. I raced to the far left of the carpet whenever my teacher read to us; that way, I’d be the first student to see the pictures when she slowly swept the open book across the room. I don’t remember the first time I pretended to be a teacher, but I do remember “reading”…
Literacy Moment 3
My dad read to me every night when I was younger. Typically one, maybe two picture books about anything and everything. Dear Garbage Man was our favorite, followed closely by The Hallo-Wiener. One night, after we had graduated from picture books to chapter books, he left his read aloud book in my room. I decided to try and read the chapter book myself. I was in first grade and it was a relatively long but easy book (though I can’t…
Angela Davis’s Speech
Angela Davis’s talk was filled with passion and sprinkled with hard truths. She basically said that America hasn’t come as far as we’d like to think since the days of the Scottsboro Boys. This is deeply troubling because she’s right. As she pointed out, the Black Lives Matter movement was quickly challenged by All Lives Matter, “as if [Black Lives Matter] is an opposition to all lives.” I’ve never involved myself in any protests or movements, which isn’t something I’m proud…
Literacy Narrative Sketch 1
The Reading Meeting Sustained silent reading (SSR) was my favorite part of the day in fourth grade. My best friend Marley and I always picked out matching books so neither of us was missing out on the other’s good picks. When we finished reading the Harry Potter series (simultaneously, of course), we decided to revert back to our even younger years and reread the Magic Treehouse series. It was on our first day of going back to the basics that…
