EDU612 Book Club by Amanda Candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub "Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are." en-us 2020-03-24 19:59:30 UTC 2025-03-13 03:40:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473500577 2020-03-24 20:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473500577 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473501461 2020-03-24 20:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473501461 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473502334 2020-03-24 20:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473502334 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473504798 2020-03-24 20:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473504798 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473506581 2020-03-24 20:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473506581 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473507807 2020-03-24 20:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473507807 This book was my favorite! miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473517980 is it a movie yet?]]> 2020-03-24 20:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473517980 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473519659 2020-03-24 20:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473519659 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473521720 2020-03-24 20:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473521720 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473522515 2020-03-24 20:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473522515 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473524581 2020-03-24 20:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473524581 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473525468 2020-03-24 20:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473525468 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473538517 2020-03-24 20:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473538517 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473538924 2020-03-24 20:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473538924 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473540052 2020-03-24 20:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473540052 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473540471 2020-03-24 20:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473540471 do what you want miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696269 the world is your playground]]> 2020-03-24 23:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696269 https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696351 2020-03-24 23:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696351 https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696920 2020-03-24 23:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473696920 Who wins? ericapec https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473866816 2020-03-25 04:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/473866816 (Joe) "Required to read" = Ew https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474606513 - Kwame Alexander

]]> 2020-03-25 14:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474606513 (Joe) “No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.” https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474613037 - Jacqueline Woodson]]> 2020-03-25 14:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474613037 (Joe) "Everything happens for a reason." https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474615124 - Jacqueline Woodson]]> 2020-03-25 14:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474615124 (Joe) "None of us know, what we don't know." https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474616943 - Dan Gemeinhart ]]> 2020-03-25 14:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474616943 (Joe) "If you can talk, you can sing." https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474621960 - Katherine Applegate]]> 2020-03-25 14:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474621960 (Joe) "It's times like this that I'm real glad I have friends. They say friends are worth your weight in gold." https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474631988 - M.T Anderson]]> 2020-03-25 14:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/474631988 Texts to Mom: Page 96 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475232903 "HAY, Mom, why'd you BALE?
Sorry I didn't call you
back, I've been feeling
a little HORSE. I
gotta TROT off. Soccer match
today. GIDDY-UP."

This poem that represents a text Nick sent to his mom shows multiple uses/meanings of the pronunciation of words. There are many words in the english language (homophones) that sound the same, but are spelt different and have different meanings.]]> 2020-03-25 18:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475232903 Haiku Poem: Page 59 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475241339 "Ms. Marcus wants to
see all my poems. No way.
Some things just your own."

This poem represents how writing doesn't always have to be made public. Writing can be for yourself. Self expression with no ones eyes to judge.]]> 2020-03-25 18:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475241339 On Paper: Page 156 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475246924 "Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head, becoming sentences..."

This quotes symbolizes the idea of the power of letters becoming words becoming sentences becoming thoughts with meaning. The power of a single letter to represent the power of an individual. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475246924 Page 42-43 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475251612 "That's, like, my favorite book...There's nothing like a good book for bringing folks together...Whatcha reading now?"

This quotes shows how relationships can build from connecting on a book. Book discussions can bring people together by seeing similarities or differences within a text. Book discussions are a form of communication which can lead to friendships.]]> 2020-03-25 19:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475251612 School Clothes: Page 60 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475258594 "Ganwar shakes his head.
The kids will eat you alive, he says.
This is bad news,
since I didn't know that America people like to eat each other.
Ganwar must see the fear in my eyes because he explains:
It means they''ll beat you up."

This poem shows how someone who is learning english can take the meaning of words very literal if they have not been exposed to that type of language in their country. This is another obstacle new learners of english face.]]> 2020-03-25 19:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475258594 Normal: Page 63 Ms_Sebastian https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475265112 "I like debates where you argue about different points of view."

This quotes represents how everyone has a different perspective on a topic. Although these characters were communicating through the feed and not in person, they were still listening too and defending their point of view, something that occurs in real life.]]> 2020-03-25 19:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475265112 Diane Galan https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475276383 (Page 270)
"Nicholas the world is an infinite sea of endless possibility."

Nick's dad is talking to him about getting divorced. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475276383 Diane Galan https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475295663 Lonnie remembers his family "yesterday, today, and tomorrow." There is not one day in which he doesn't think about them. "Writing make me remember." He writes a poem to his father saying what he misses doing with him. Lonnie writes occasional poems about something important or special that will happen or already happened. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475295663 Diane Galan https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475304567 (Page 298)
"I didn't just appear one day. I didn't just wake up and learn how to write my name. I keep writing, knowing now that I was a long time coming." 
Jackie loved to write, that was her passion. She always made time for it and expressed herself in her writing. She loved the way the letters of her name looked, loved the sound of it, and how it was one day going to be connected to her full name, her own name. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475304567 Diane Galan https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475316770 “When the flying boat returns to earth at last, I open my eyes and gaze out the round window. What is all the white? Where is all the world?”
Kek is an innocent boy and inexperienced with the English language. He calls an airplane "a flying boat." This shows how difficult it is for students who do not know a language. Due to the language barrier, he takes everything very literal. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475316770 Diane Galan https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475328221 Violet is desperate to fit in with the "normal" kids like Titus. She despises them but wants to be accepted by them. Violet was great at pointing out when Titus and his friends were being rude, immature, or spoiled. ]]> 2020-03-25 19:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/475328221 • Pg 49 “and I couldn’t do a fuckin’ thing except look at that stupid boat painting, which was even worse because now I saw there was no one on the boat, which was even more stupid, and was kind of how I felt, that the sails were up, and the rudder was, well, whatever rudders are, but there was no one on board to look at the horizon.” When he is sitting all alone and doesn't have his feed he is angry that all he has to look at is that painting, but he noticed that there is no one on the boat to look at the horizon- like how he is all alone without his feed. The painting alone tells a story itself. jeanennedelagrange https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483245010 (Jeanenne)]]> 2020-03-30 21:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483245010 Tell me, how do you feel about your mother leaving... miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483411715 page 273]]> 2020-03-31 01:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483411715 Gifted, page 169 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483418443 Jacqueline's poem Gifted delivers an important message about literacy. As a successful writer/ author, she shows her audience that  growing up, school teachers often compared her to her sister...which left her feeling inadequate ...but even with these intimidating thoughts, Jacqueline aspired to be who she is today... she wrote because she liked to, not because she had to... and even when the words "twisted and twirled" across the pages... she was able to "catch words." Jacqueline's story is inspirational to young writers.  ]]> 2020-03-31 01:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483418443 A Mentor Poem miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483426033 Similar to a "Where I'm from..." poem... What are your names? How do other people refer to you?]]> 2020-03-31 01:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483426033 A Mentor Poem miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483431618 "Group Home Before Miss Edna's House"

This is an excellent mentor poem (page 15) to show young writers how they can write about a particular place... maybe it's a place from their heart map or a place they love/grew up in.

A Quick Attempt/Example: Vacation
We left for the airport.... in my winter coat, wearing thick winter socks with my winter hat and gloves...
And just like that... after a three hour flight and an Uber to Miami...there I was in my vacation shoes, with my vacation shades and my all around vacation attitude.

Jacqueline is showing her readers that stories exist in all places.. the good, the bad, the ugly. The sense of imagery she provides us with throughout the book is exemplary... Writers use their five senses to explore the world around them.]]> 2020-03-31 01:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483431618 Literal Language miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483438872 So far ^ we've mentioned eating people (eat you alive) & flying boats (airplanes).... So, to continue with the theme of finding Kek's literal interpretations of the English language...

"So-fa? I repeat...Carefully, I take a step onto the blanket cloud." (p. 35). 
(sofa = blanket cloud)

"My aunt makes food on the cooking fire (p. 39) .. (stove = cooking fire)

"TV Machine (p. 39) ... it's a machine to Kek because they are not as common in his home country. 

"It's eating my dishes! I cry./  Please make it stop!/ Hannah lifts the top of the machine....(p.98) 
^ this leads into the chapter "Not-Smart Boy" ....
Kek used the washing machine to wash dishes... and then calls himself not-smart after feeling guilty for his mistake. 

Hannah even admits - "Woah. I think this is what they call/ a problem with translation."

Katherine subtly reminds the teachers reading this book that we need to be conscious of the barriers ENL students must overcome. 

Literal interpretations like Kek's just mean that the student is using prior knowledge and experiences to make their way in the world ...they are building literacy... provide visuals, be descriptive... and never assume!]]> 2020-03-31 01:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483438872 New Language miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483450301 The new slang terms that appear in this book remind me of Kek's struggles with our language... (m-chat, boot stick, FeedLink, Onfeed, oneiric culture, lesions, youch, lenticels, birching....) these words are from a list I kept while reading...

While I may not have been able to make meaning of these words right away (foreign language)... eventually, using the right context clues, sometimes just reading on ... and a little bit of googling... I was able to make sense...

The literacy message that you can derive from this scenario is that we have to remember what the "learning to read" process is like for our students.

* One word that particularly grabbed my attention: 'lesion.' ..

It took a few mentions to understand what this was or what it looked like...

lesion | ˈlēZHən | 
noun chiefly Medicine 
a region in an organ or tissue which has suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, or tumor.

Reading on I discovered that lesions became a "trending" thing to have... (p. 96)

"Lesions were hip now." (p. 147)

 ... So much of a trend that Quendy eventually covers herself with them... like tattoos

M.T. writes about the characters losing hair and skin ... clearly an effect of the Feedware/ environmental changes (artificial sun, CloudsTM, no real forests...oxygen industry)... so it's like they took something bad that was happening to them and slapped a bandaid on it by "making it cool." (lipstick on a pig)

This also reminded me of Wall-E when they invite the ship's guests to "Try blue...it's the new red."

Social Media can really control your mind if you let it!
]]> 2020-03-31 02:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483450301 Lesions, page 147 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483460925 2020-03-31 02:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483460925 "Give me a Once Upon a Time..." (p. 16) miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483461239 This is a recurring moment for Coyote and Rodeo... 

Dan's literacy message shows his readers the beauty and power of story telling... We all have a story to tell...

Plus... Coyote's ability to creatively spew stories like this off the top of her head shows that her years of reading and homeschooling on the road have suited her well. 

There's also a story within a story here, because Coyote uses her story telling magic as an opportunity to share her loneliness with Rodeo... to justifies why she needed Ivan, her new kitten. 

"So I planted that seed and let it sit there for the rest of the day." 
(p. 19)

 

]]> 2020-03-31 02:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483461239 miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483463153 2020-03-31 02:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483463153 Mentor Writing, Imagery miss_candelaria https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483469368 ...the crunch of the gravel, the sound of the screech... the sight and smell of the smoke.. the "kill" of the engine

]]> 2020-03-31 02:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/483469368 Jeanenne jeanennedelagrange https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484643530 pg. 202
"he did play beautifully.  And his song was mesmerizing.  And we did all sit there in awe of the amazingness of it all.  It's all true.  But those kinds of words are usually a waste of time.  "Cause there ain't no words or poetry that could wrap up what it was like sitting there listening to that Salvador playing that violin of his.  It was something." 
~ a moment in time can tell a story all on its own and sometimes you can't find the words to express the feelings you feel inside, but when you try to describe it you are creating imagery and adding details, feelings and emotions to your writing. You can really see yourself there in this auditorium and you can tell that this was important to Coyote, Salvador and the rest of the group. ]]> 2020-03-31 14:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484643530 Jeanenne jeanennedelagrange https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484676120 Pg. 936
"Long after the stories are told, I remember them,
 whisper them back to Hope
and Dell late at night:
She's the one who left Nicholtown in the daytime 
the one Grandmama says wasn't afraid of anything.  Retelling each story.  Making up what I didn't understand or missed when the voices dropped too low, I talk until my sister and brother's soft breaths tell me they've fallen
asleep.
Then I let the stories live 
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back 
into cricket lullabies 
and my own dreams."
~I love how she explains here how some stories are made. When we can't remember all of the details we try to come up with what we think makes sense and sometimes our memories get a little foggy and we create our own stories. ]]> 2020-03-31 15:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484676120 Jeanenne jeanennedelagrange https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484698952 "write it down before it leaves your brain"
~we learn from the mentors we have in our lives and it is so important to write down your idea before you forget it because as time goes on you may remember differently or you may forget. Every moment counts and every idea or memory could turn into a story.]]> 2020-03-31 15:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484698952 Jeanenne jeanennedelagrange https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484710844 “Books are fun, Nicholas, he says,
they're like
amusement parks
for readers.

Yeah, well, maybe
they would be fun
if I got to pick
the rides
sometimes, you answer” 
~ This quote emphasizes the importance if choice!]]> 2020-03-31 15:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_candelaria/literacybookclub/wish/484710844