The Rock in My Throat by Rylie Hutsenpiller

Book

rhutsenp — 2025-02-15 17:01:44 UTC

The Rock in My Throat

Written by Koa Kalia Yang

Illustrated by Jiemei Lin

Summary

rhutsenp — 2025-02-15 17:04:55 UTC

This story is about the author Kao Kalia Yang. It follows her life as a young child struggling to navigate a new language and culture. She dose not want to speak English because she does not want to be like an Americans who she see as rude.

Challenging Topic

rhutsenp — 2025-02-15 17:24:03 UTC

This children's book covers the struggle of a family moving to a new country and reality of learning a new language. It navigates how a child look at a cutler not of there own and how they absorbs the new people around them. Cow the main character in the book does not want to speak English because she finds the American's impatience and rude especially when they are taking with her mother who is just learning English. So the challenging topic is how cutlers clash.

Authenticity of The Text

rhutsenp — 2025-02-15 17:36:00 UTC

This children's book is very authentic. The author is telling a true story about herself moving and growing up in America. In the book Yang talking about a girl named Julia Chang. In a read aloud video I watched to get more information on the story Yang describes her real life friends she has with Julia Chang. The author also shares a photo of her as a young girl on a play ground. I would describe this book as very authentic because of how the author is describing her life growing up. She writes with age appropriate language that is easily understood my children who may read it. Yang is from a Hmong refugee camp. Her culture is shown in the art like how the food is depicted and her and her families use some of there native language in the book as well. This book could be classified as all three mirror, window and sliding glass door. A mirror for all the children who can relate and a window or sliding glass door for everyone who reads this just learning about this feeling.

In The Classroom

rhutsenp — 2025-02-15 18:07:47 UTC

In a classroom there is all different kinds of backgrounds and cutlers represented in each child. It is so important for teacher to have a classroom library that has many books that show cutlers of a variety different types pf people. The Rock in My Throat is a good example of a book to have in a class library. It demonstrates different food language and people who have different traits. In Addition to The Rock in My Throat the teacher could have The Proudest Blue. Another story about a Southern Asian girl but it takes a more positive light.

Areli is a Dreamer

rhutsenp — 2025-02-16 17:27:21 UTC

Areli is a Dreamer

Written by: Areli Morales

Illustrated by: Luisa Uribe

this is a true story about a girl named Areli who is from Mexico. Her parents are living in New York so they can work towards getting her and her brother all in the same place. She does not want to go to New York because she loves Mexico, so when the time come to leave she is upsent. It does not get better for her when she arrives, she is bullied in school for the way she talk and had little friends. But soon she comes to grow into her life as an American.

All The Way to America

rhutsenp — 2025-02-16 17:42:49 UTC

All The Way To America

Written by: Dan Yaccarino

This book is about a man named Michael and his story about how he moved to America from Italy. The story goes through a long line of the family and fallows how they make a living.

Response to a Family Member

rhutsenp — 2025-02-16 17:49:49 UTC

Dear.....,

In class on Monday we red the book The Rock in My Throat. This book covers some challenging topics like new cutlers and how someone from a different country would take it in. I understand you concern in coving this book. We have a purpose for this lesson as we have a student who is navigating a similar situation as the main charter in the book. All the children in the class will benefit from this lesson because it teaches them empathy and patience's for other who are learning.

Sensorily,

Miss, Hutsenpiller

Sims Bishop's Analyzes

rhutsenp — 2025-02-16 18:00:30 UTC

In the Sims Bishops reading Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Door she talk about different view and perspective while people read stories. As you read a story you take it in from the perspective of how you grew up and by your understandings of life. This story to me is a window because this story is offering a view of the world that is different to me