Chapter 1
**FRIUTS**
I love the way she opens up to the class about how she used to fake read and create bogus book reports. I realized from this chapter that for a teacher to gain the trust of her students, she must create an environment where everyone feels totally comfortable.
"When you are trying to learn how to do something, do you ask something, do you ask some who doesn't know how to do it for help? Not waiting for a response I continue. Probably not."(6) his is how she introduces the concept of copying the habits of good readers.
" An activity I use to bring out the literacy histories of my students is the important book and literacy histories form. I ask students to recall a book that has had an impact on their life..."(9)
**WEEDS**
The only problem that I had with this chapter was the fact that I think she divulged too much personal information. Depending on the maturity level and conduct of her students, being so open so early in the semester could have an adverse affect. However, she accomplished her goal to get them to speak up so I guess it was not so bad after all.
**BASKET**
I would like to use the important book and literacy literacy histories form. I noticed that our professor gave us an assignment similar to this in our first day of class. It got everyone to talk about how they started writing and I enjoyed it very much.
The story about fake reading reminded me of Mike Rose's autobiographical novel, Lives on the Boundary. A clerical error caused him to be streamed into the vocational track at his high school. By the time one of his teachers noticed that he was functioning much higher than expected and found the error that put him there, he had learned so many bad habits and had such low expectations that he spent most of his college years re-learning how to do basic things. I always wonder what happened to the other boy, the other Mike Rose who got put into a higher functioning group. How did that boy respond to his teachers' expections? Did he rise to occasion while the Mike Rose who eventually became a famous educator was sinking?
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