My favorite Dr. Seuss book is “Green Eggs and Ham.” I picked this book because my mom read it to me all the time when I was little boy. Whenever she would read it to me it would always put a smile on my face. My favorite part of the book was when the “Who” that doesn’t like the green eggs and ham finally agrees to try them and likes them, “Say! I like green eggs and ham! I do! I like them, Sam-I-am!” (59)…
A substantial amount of movies are based off of books. Rarely, the movies prove themselves better than their book counterparts, and sometimes the movie falls short of the mark. O Brother Where Art Thou? is unusual because it tends to stay on track with the Odyssey. Due to the fact that O Brother Where Art Thou? takes place in 1930’s Mississippi, plot elements obviously do not correlate directly, but other than that elements tend to be similar. Overall, The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou? share similar major characters (with a few differences), and even with the changed setting, the plot events are similar as well.…
In “Homer’s Odyssey” and “Siren Song” both show the weaknesses of human beings. Also it reveals humans find something so enticing that they are incapable of withstanding it. In “Homer’s Odyssey” Homer creates an illusion that the sirens are dangerous creatures, unlike Atwood’s poem, “Siren Song.” Atwood’s poem however shows a desperation coming from the sirens.…
Many people have noticed the similarities between The Odyssey by Homer, and O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers. Both characters exhibit perseverance at great lengths and many other things throughout their journeys. There are many things in common between the two main characters. Both are away from their homes for a long time and are leaving loved ones behind. Their journeys were very similar but different at the same time. Two things may be very similar but things are bound to be different.…
Many students who struggle with reading ask why should we read, what is the point? The point is that being able to read opens you up a whole new world of knowledge and imagination. But to have that new world opened up you need to be able to comprehend what you are reading. The primary goal of reading is to determine the meaning of what the writer is communicating and make the most of that information. That’s why reading comprehension skills are so important. Without them the reader cannot gather any information and use it to efficiently function and enjoy the richness of life (Marshall).…
Schoenbach, Ruth, et al. Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.…
Reading has always been a challenge for me since the second grade. It’s always been difficult to pronounce certain words also get the complete understanding of a story or concept after I read the text. I wanted to explore this past learning to re-evaluate the certain strategies that help me overcome this obstacle when I was struggling with reading in the…
Reading is one of the most important skills a learner must acquire in life. Statistics show that students who are behind in reading…
Reading means the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message. How does a person that doesn’t know how to read make it through one day? Being literate is one of the most important skills to have. It’s something that is needed on a day to day basis. In the article “Superman and me” by Sherman Alexie, he shares his story about how he became a great reader and writer. He shows how important is to be literate in today’s society. While I recognized some differences to Sherman Alexie’s story to literacy at home, but I can identify myself with some parts of hs story at school.…
I hate when textbooks are challenging to get through. At times, required reading can feel like a chore and there's no fun in that. Unfortunately, I began to avoid reading textbooks altogether since most of the textbooks I've come across have been boring and difficult to understand. Since it's my last semester, I decided to give textbooks another chance and the reading process has been going smoothly.…
Although there is much I can’t recall from my early days of reading, there are some momentous flashbacks. When I was beginning elementary school my parents were very eager to introduce me to doing a great deal of reading, they wanted me to enjoy reading for a while and they succeeded. We lived within walking distance of the public library which allowed us to frequently visit the library to read and check out books. I always remembered the vast shelves of books that seemed like they never had an end. In addition to reading at the library we checked books out to bring home to read, this allowed me to read as much as I wanted to. Correspondent to the amount of reading I did, the more I enjoyed it and improved at reading.…
In High School, we would read novels as The Odyssey and The Iliada by Homer. The teacher would put us in groups and each group was required to present our summaries in front of the class and most of the time write essays to support our reading projects…
Cited: Varley, Jeff. “High – School Starting Time.” “Reading Critically, Writing Well.” Ed. Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, and Alison M. Warriner. Boston: Bedford, 2008. 496 – 499. Print.…
treachery among the Gods that is so prevalent in the Iliad, is nowhere to be…
I learned to read and write at a young age. There are a lot of people in my family who are educators. My grandparents who both taught for the Beaumont school district would read with me and teach me to write whenever I would visit them, which was often. Throughout early elementary school I remember reading and writing coming relatively really easy to me due to my upbringing. I even read books outside of school that were not homework, and enjoyed them so much that I once got in trouble for reading in class while I was supposed to be doing a different assignment. One of the books that I read outside of school, and was interested in, was the harry potter series. Its story line and intense descriptions really fascinated me. I continued reading those through middle school, even when I was supposed to be reading a different book for an assignment in one of my English classes. But the books I was required to read in school didn’t interest me like that one did. I would tell myself I would start reading the other book as soon as I finished the next chapter, but that never happened due to me reading until I fell asleep. If I couldn’t pay attention to my assigned readings I would read the back of the book the day my assignment was due, and fake my way through the essay or test. Surprisingly that worked for me for a while until I reached junior high.…
