...Junie B. Jones is thought to be a beloved fictional character that played an essential role in my childhood education. The Junie B. Jones series captivated my attention and motivated me to read as a child. As an adult, I still enjoy the many adventures Junie B. partakes in such as an encounter with her mushy gushy valentine with Warren, or her first day of first grade. Despite Junie B.’s content, it is hard to overlook the constant violations of standard English rules. As an Aspiring educator, I am beginning to wonder whether the author, Barbara Park’s grammar choices are more defective than effective. It is obvious while indulging in the Junie B. series that Parks is purposefully making grammatical mistakes such as misspelling words, and using improper sentence structures. The big question for Parks is “why do you chose to commit these acts of...
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...Title: Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus Author: Barbara Park Illustrator: Denise Brunkus Publication Information: New York: Random House, 1992 ISBN: 0-679-82642-4 Genre: Formula Fiction/Humor Length: 69 pages / 10 chapters Estimated age level: 6 and up Summary: This is the first book in the Junie B. Jones series. In this book Junie B. gets ready to start kindergarten and really doesn’t want to ride the bus. She says that it’s scary, stupid and smelly. Then, after the first day of school she decides that she is going to hide to avoid getting on the bus. Junie then goes on an adventure around the school after she is the only one left in the building. Finally she comes out and her mother tells her never to hide when it’s time to leave ever again. Evaluation: This is a really good book for early readers. The chapters are short and the writing is still rather large. There are also pictures occasionally throughout the book to help the young reader imagine what is happening. However, the words are not dependent on the pictures, which makes this a chapter book rather than a picture book. I loved Junie B. Jones books when I was younger because they seemed relatable and they were always interesting. The stories were relatable because they are about a young girl beginning her school career and that was exactly where I was when I started reading them. They are also appealing to children because they are extremely funny and theres added suspense of...
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...I think I like reading books that can get personal to me because I like to see someone else going through the same situation I am and I like seeing what they would do in a situation compared to what I would do in the same situation. I also liked and still like reading books that either talk about my culture or relates to it in some way. This has not changed over the years and I still find myself picking up books in Barnes and Nobles that either have something to do with my culture or something going on in my life at that moment. During the ages two through five, I loved reading, well read to, any Disney books as long as it had a princess in it, I was happy. Then from the ages six through eight, I loved reading all the Junie B. Jones books. Then from the ages nine through twelve, I don’t remember having a favorite book during that time, but I do remember from the age of thirteen through eighteen I loved reading The Great Gatsby and any Nicholas Sparks’ book. Recently, I fell in love with the book The Fault in our Stars. I read the book in two days and that’s the fastest I ever read a book in my life! I can now see throughout the years that my passion for reading has grown since a young age to the present time because when I was younger, I hated reading, and then suddenly I grew up and I didn't hate it...
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...feburary 13, 2016 | ------------------------------------------------- Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying into to sociology feburary 13, 2016 | ------------------------------------------------- Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying into to sociology First I would like to start off by saying that I truly enjoyed that video and definitely had to let my daughter watch it so she can see the causes and effects of bullying from another stand point. However doing this assignment hit home for me. I have witness so much bullying its crazy which is why I chose to pick collect and analyze data as an important step to analyze bullying. Bullying goes unreported all over the world. My focus is to discuss the effects of bullying with kids and their schools. If time was taken out at schools to analyze and collect data from different kids being bullied then it will a more hands on approach on day to day treatment a kid may be enduring during school hours. However, ever that’s if you can get them to address the situation. Often kids who are bullied are afraid to speak up. They fear that it would only make the situation worse than what it is. School bullying in my opinion is the worst kind of bullying. Kids have a way of being so cruel and mean to each other. They drag others into the drama by using social apps or just spreading rumors amongst others at the school. If there are adults who can barely handle bullying I can only imagine what kids may feel...
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...Lola enjoys going to the Program for Gifted Learners (PGL) each week with her friends. She and her PGL class successfully sent a science experiment to space in a NASA rocket. She also presented experience with Cubes in Space at NASA in Virginia. Lola loves reading and writing, especially about mythology and adventure. Racing through the forest, weaving in and out of trees, skirting old dirt roads, I can feel adrenaline coursing through my body, my heart rate elevating with each leap I take. I start to feel the tattoo on my side burning, as if a pattern is being added to it. I stop; not willingly, but my body has just stopped moving. I know that if I stay stopped for even another minute, they will catch up to me. Looking down, boarding my planted feet, I notice a small puddle reflecting my image. My jeans are smeared with dirt and blood; there are holes at my knees and in a few other occasional spots where branches have caught. My black shirt has a rip in the sleeve, under which is a gash from a blade. My face has several bloody, nasty cuts and bruises, but I am not concerned with these. Head pounding, my hand reaches to grab an ibuprofen from my leather jacket pocket and my water from the side pocket of my black backpack. It feels as though I’ve been running for at least the last three, maybe four hours. I can hear them getting louder behind me. I need to run! Freeing my legs from their coma, I hurry to a large clearing only a few hundred yards ahead. Soon, I am aware of a painful...
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...Children’s books have changed more and more as time goes on. Junie B Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park, started off when Junie B was very nervous to ride the bus and when her mom put her on the bus to go to her first day of school she was very angry. She didn’t have any friends that she knew so she had to sit next to a funny looking and mean boy, who is named Jim. Then when they departed the bus she had very bad luck because she got knocked down and her skirt got stamped on by the mean boy, Jim, from the bus. While at school, Junie B. meets a girl named Lucille. Lucille and Junie B. become friends. However, Junie B. finally thought her luck was actually turning out to be good. The time came for Junie B. to ride the bus back...
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...Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus is a lovely children’s book, written by Barbara Park, about a young girl name Junie B. She is very mischievous and has an average life of a kindergartener. In this book, it was Junie B.’s first day of riding the school bus. She woke up early and dressed up admirably for school. Then it was time to leave. She waited outside of her house for the bus. The bus finally arrived and that second, Junie B. hated the bus. She disliked the smell of it most of all. She climbed inside and looked around for her friend that was going to save a seat for her. Junie B. found her friend, but Junie B., intrigued, saw that her friend was sitting with some other girl. Junie B. was very angry. Then, Junie B. found another...
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...mom noticed that I always had a book in my hand. My comprehension level was higher than most, I even had the highest reading level by third grade. When I was in fifth grade I was introduced to essays. I enjoyed writing them because it was the thought that I could write anything I wanted on paper for people to read. It was then I realized I had a passion for books and writing. To emphasize, growing up I loved every type of book, especially the ones that challenged me. I liked books with pictures, but I preferred books with no pictures. With me constantly reading, I always had two or three books checked out from the library. My first favorite books were Junie B. Jones book. I could never put those books down. Every time my school received the magazines to order books with the school, I was the girl always buying the Junie B. Jones book set. At one point I had every book, and I had read every single one of them. I had to find a different series to begin. As I began my journey to find the book for me, I stumbled along...
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...difficult time teaching me as they were both immigrants, who were learning English themselves. My parents and I all had a darkness in our home since we didn’t know the gift of reading English, yet. They continue to speak with an accent til this day. They continue to stutter and sound out English. It is still a mountain my family has to climb. Although I don’t have a memory of my parents teaching me to read, I learned from others surrounding me. My siblings. My teachers. My friends. Slowly, I learned how to read. Letter by letter. Sound by sound. I turned into an avid book reader. I knew the librarians by name and any second I had free in class I would head to the library. I would check out collections of books that mainly consisted of Junie B. Jones, The Magic School Bus, Diary of the Wimpy Kid, and Captain Underpants....
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...Growing Up a Book Worm My love for reading began when I was introduced to my grade school librarian. Mrs. Nish, truly brought the books to life for her students. As a young reader, she opened my eyes to a world of fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, and mystery. At St. Vincent de Paul, students were encouraged to read a certain number of hours each year. This is when my love for reading flourished, because we had the opportunity to choose our own reading material. In having the opportunity to choose our own books, I felt like I was in my own world. No other student knew what my book was about and vice versa. Some of my favorite series as a kid were Barbra Park's Junie B. Jones and Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House. These series caught my attention...
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...In this essay i'm going to go through the steps I have taken to become a better literate person. I will also tell you inspirations, books that have made reading and writing easy for me. I'm going to go through what elementary, junior high, and high-school reading and writing looked like. Hopefully my essay will better inform you and help you understand the integrity, courage and motivation it took for me to better myself. Now in elementary they make you read all the mainstream books like Junie B Jones, Magic Tree House and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Now I wasn’t the kid that got interested in those books, I was more serious. As a kid I always wanted to be a grown up so I would read things on life and careers. Kids and teachers thought I was...
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...Katie Fuller English 1010 Ms. Wardell 18 September 2015 How Alcohol Has Influenced My Literacy Not everyone really remembers how or when they learned to read and write. In fact, most people do not. I am one of those people that do not. So, this is not so much a story of “how” as much as it is a story of some recollections of my journey through literacy as a whole. From my first big kid book, to learning a new language, and everything in between. Not all of these recollections are necessarily positive ones, though. My father had a lot of negative influence on me when I was younger, and I believe he is the reason I am still not the greatest student. Once when I was in first grade, my class was taking our weekly spelling test. None of the words were particularly difficult, considering we were only in first grade. In fact, I specifically remember the word “pie” being one of the words. For whatever reason, though, I could not seem to keep up with my teacher as she called out the words. She would call out a word, and before I could finish writing, she had already called out the next, and the next, and the next. Eventually, being the cry baby I am, I started sobbing uncontrollably because I was sure I was going to fail. In the middle of the test! Once she realized I was crying, she turns to me and asks, “What’s wrong?” I felt way too embarrassed to tell her and the whole class that I could not keep up with them, so I ended up blurting out, “I just miss my dad.” My dad had been...
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...mom turned her back, he would quickly start to flip through the thick book he was reading. I would sit there and watch him be so passionate about something and count the number of times he flipped the page, or the number of books he read in a week. From the entire Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series, he enjoyed well-written fantasy books. His eyes glided so seamlessly across the page, while once in a while going back to reread the word, or line he missed. I was in awe by his ability to be so focused. I never knew what passionate reading looked like until I saw him engrossed in his novels. From watching my brother read, I became inspired to find my passion in reading as well. Shortly after this, being a second grader, I picked up a Junie B. Jones book. It followed Junnie who was a spunky young girl entering kindergarten with glasses and an attitude. Reading through her relatable school adventures made me understand why my brother liked to read. He did not talk a lot, probably because he always had a book he was busy reading. I wondered why when my mom asked him what he did at school, his only response was, “stuff.” As I got deeper into the series, even though I did not come close to read as frequently as my brother, I realized why he did it. He did not mean to ignore people. He simply got so wrapped up in the plot of the book that he could not bring himself to look up. Fast forwarding, on my twelfth birthday party, I received the key to my thoughts and feelings, a journal. At...
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...Reading with Reid Reid Davis December 9, 2013 Bullard 4th Block 5th Year IBMYP Davis 2 Table of Contents Title Page…………………………………………………………………...................1 Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………..2 Thesis Statement/ Introduction………………………………………………………..3 Background Information……………………………………………………………....4 Research/ In-Text Citations……………………………………………………………5 Introduction of Project………………………………………………………………...6 Steps of Personal Project………………………………………………………………7 Interviews…………………………………………………………………….…...8 & 9 Product ………………………………….…………………………………………...10 Conclusion/ Reflection…………………………………………………………11 & 12 Davis 3 Reading With Reid Thesis Statement My primary goal for this project is to bring happiness and a better education to the students at Turning Point Academy. I did this by buying and collecting books to donate to the libraries that serve Turning Point Academy students in order to increase their reading opportunities and their learning environment. This project has reminded me that reading is a joy that belongs in every one’s life and should be considered a privilege more than as a right. Reading is amazing. In fact, amazing doesn’t even begin to describe how unbelievably valuable reading is in one’s life. The dictionary definition of reading is “the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud,” (Webster’s Dictionary). This definition doesn’t adequately describe reading because it does not fully portray the valuable benefits...
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