EDRG 3344 T/R-Warm Memory

So this is a warm memory that I have and love to remember.

I got really sick one day and had to be sent home because i was running a fever. My mom was at work and couldn't pick me up and so my mom's father came to get me. I went to his house and when i got there my grandmother had the couch ready with a pillow and a fitted sheet over the cushions like a makeshift bed so I could watch TV. She brought me some Sprite and my grandfather had started some Chicken and Noodles for his "favorite" grandchild. This was a common occurrence when i was sick, he would make me some Homemade Chicken and Noodles. So I laid there sipping my Sprite and watching Lady and the Tramp. That was the movie that I always watched when I was sick and my grandfather would rewind it and I would watch it again and again. I was spoiled by my grandfather because I am the only granddaughter and the oldest of the grandchildren.

EDRG 3344 T/R Blog #4

Okay so here is my R.A.F.T. story. R stands for Role, A for Audience, F for Format and T for Topic.

R- Bones
A- Me
F- Letter
T- Body Health

Dear Meghan,

It’s your bones here. I need to talk to you about better ways to keep us healthy. First off what is up with you not drinking enough milk? It’s good for you and helps us stay strong. We are the things that keep you standing up right and keep you moving. Without us you would just be a giant blob of skin and muscle and that wouldn’t be any fun now would it.You aren’t getting enough calcium and unless you want us to get weaker and our body to have a calcium deficiency you had better get to drinking milk ma’am.All sorts of problems can occur as we age like getting weaker and if you fall when you get older we will break a lot easier and take a lot more time to heal. Another thing is that you need to start taking your vitamins so that the rest of our body doesn’t start malfunctioning and so we stay strong and healthy. You can get all sorts of other health problems if you don’t get the right amounts of Vitamins and Minerals and some of these conditions could even lead to pre-mature death. We also need vitamins and minerals other than calcium, though that is really important to our development and continued strength as we continue to get older. So please help us and help yourself by taking you vitamin and drinking Milk.

Sincerely,
Your Bones

EDRG 3344 T/R Blog #3

1) Explain writing.

Writing is a PROCESS. It consists of 5 steps. These steps are Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing. Pre-writing is the process of brainstorming. Drafting is creating an outline and a rough draft. Revising is adding and deleting sections of your rough draft along with working on elaboration and sentence structure. Editing is looking for conventional errors like capitalization and spelling errors. Revising and Editing are often confused with eachother. The final step is Publishing which is exactly what it says, turning in your final draft or displaying it for everyone to see.

2) Final Draft of in-class story.

The year is 1965 and it is the era of the Hollywood Starlett and the Debonair hollywood gentleman. It is the time of the comedy variety shows of Johnny Carson and Dean Martin. The crooning of Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

It was May and I was spending the week with a girlfriend of mine in New York. She lived on the Lower East Side and it was the first time in over a year I had seen her. She had the whole week planned out and one of the many things we were going to do was go to a taping of the Dean Martin Show. She had bought the tickets as soon as she found out Gene Kelly would be a guest. I am a huge fan of Gene Kelly. I loved him in Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris. This was one of the many reason's she bought the tickets.

We spent 2 hours getting ready for the taping and headed to the studio where it was being taped. We knew we were in for a night of hilarity and most likely peeing in our pants, or in this case skirts. Just as we had expected it was hilarious. Dean sang as always, Gene did a song from Singin' in the Rain and then they sang a duet. After the end of the show we hung out for a while in hopes of getting some autographs and we did. Gene and Dean signed our books for us and thanked us for coming. We were two of the lucky few who stayed after and got their autographs.

At the end of the week I flew home. I was sad to leave but needed to return for the start of school. On my flight home i stared at my autographs and remembered the amazing night we had. It was the best day of my life.

Blog #2 EDRG 3344 T/R

So this blog needs to answer these questions.


What are some examples of pre/during/post strategies, and how do these strategies help students?

Some pre-strategies for reading a book are doing a journal with the kids about what they think the book will be about. Show them the first few pictures in the novel and ask them to predict what they think will happen next. This makes them use their imaginations and gives them the ability to use critical thinking skills in order to, from looking at the pictures, predict what will happen next.

Some strategies to use while reading the book is to use some things from the book and pull them out while reading the book and pass them around the class. It will give them some outside association with the book so in the future they see those items that you passed around they will remember the books.

Some post reading strategies would be to quiz them about the book. Take some of the items that you used for the book and take new items that weren't in the book and quiz your students about what was and was not in the book. It helps with their comprehension and retention.