Although the author, Dr.Seuss, has some controversy around him, his books are classics. One of his main books is,”The Cat in the Hat” and I feel this is a great book that will get kids to enjoy reading. Once this book is read the students may be interested in reading the other books by Dr.Seuss. This will increase their curiosity in reading and get them to enjoy reading in general.

I think this is a great book to use if you were to create a lesson plan about a book. This book has many themes and this can be the idea of the lesson. While discussing what happens in the book you can discuss different types of themes such as to not be selfish, helping those in need and a few more lessons that were in this book. Overall I think that this book can be a good lesson plan for the students because they will be able to learn about different themes that they can put in their daily lives as well as learn how to pick apart a book to understand the themes of a book and the books a little easier. 

When it comes to the book there are little to no human characters and many characters that go by the name Sneetches. While the Sneetches don't really have any other names we can see that the Star bellied Sneetches try to act as if they are above the other sneetches that don’t have stars on their bellies. Since this book was made in the 1960s, I feel that the Sneetches who didn’t have stars on their bellies was relating to every person who is of minority and the Starbelly Sneetches can depicted as someone that may be white. While reading the book the Star Belly Sneetches treated everyone Elise poorly, and think they are the best type of Sneetch. Based on the year the book was made, it can look like relation to race is what was trying to be talked about but because this is a kids book  these Sneetches characters were put in place.

When looking at the section “Weigh the Relationships between People” there are characters that you can relate to white characters who did have more power over everyone at the beginning  but by the end of the book it is a good lesson and a good theme that everyone is equal, so although there are white characters in this book, they are not depicted throughout the book in a really bad way.

3. Look at the Lifestyles:

While again the characters are not human you can somewhat depict that the Star belly Sneetches correlate to the white race by the Sneetches that had no stars on their bellies were people of color and in the book we can see that the Star belly sneetches did not want to deal with anything related to the Sneetches with no stars on their bellies. Now when looking at the criteria, “Look at the Lifestyles” the characters can be related to the part where the “non white group is depicted as “different ‘“(Council on Interracial Books for Children pg11) . This is exactly what happened to the Sneetches in the book that they weren’t allowed to even associate with the star belly Sneetches when they were on the beaches. Some parents of the Star belly Sneetches told their children to stay away from them. The 3rd criteria mentions if the non whites are depicted in a bad setting but in the book the only setting was the beach where they all lived so there wasn’t discrimination towards where the non star belly sneetches lived.  While this book does end on a good note and they all live together in harmony at the end, the book does start off with Sneetches with no stars on their bellies being discriminated against. 

6. Consider the Effects on a Child’s Self-Image”

While reading this section I can say that after reading the book the student may understand that it is wrong to judge someone on how they look. From this students will be reminded that everyone is the same and should be treated equally. The effects of self image from this book will be on a positive note and they wont get any bad feeling about it.

10. Look at the Copyright Date:

When looking at the copyright date for this book which is 1961 it actually shocked me to see a book that was based on discrimination be made at a time when there was tons of discrimination. The whole idea of rule 10 is trying to see if maybe the year the book was made correlates to what is said in the book at the time but when I look at this book it just tries to show everyone that they are all equal to one another no matter how they look. 

I found this article impactful to me because I actually became curious with the idea of maybe teaching a class for adults in the near future that will teach the students parents on how to not only help their children with homework but to learn exactly what the teacher is teaching students in class so the adults will be able to help at home when their child needs it. Parents are also taught how to ask questions regarding their children so they can receive help if the parent asked. While reading this article I realized how many students have parents at home that cant reallly help them with homework but what Maria did was a great way to help parents be able to help their students. With parents learning the lesson their children are receiving the children are able to get help at home which will help keep them on track for a successful school career. https://www.laschoolreport.com/la-parent-voice-what-i-learned-in-25-years-of-being-a-latino-parent-engagement-advocate-knowing-the-school-system-can-really-transform-everythi

Just like the video mentions that  Most of these men thought violence was the only way to show their manliness to prove themselves as a man when others were taught violence is not the way to show that they are a man. This video was very impactful to me because it  also reminded that It is a teachers job to guide students  away from the path of violence and  or ending up in jail. In previous videos I have watched it may be one persons advice that can change someone’s life and as a future educator I would love to know that maybe I’m the reason that my students stayed away from violence in the future.

 

The video also reminds me to never judge a book by its cover and what I mean by that is it honestly shocked me because it was just the idea of femisim being taught in jail that really shocked me because I really couldn’t imagine that those men would want talk about something like that.
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