Evelyn Ramos

I believe fairy tales are good for children they can help with emotional and moral development as well as help resolve conflict and problems. Children can connect this stories to their feeling and help understand them. One Article I chose from List A Is the “The Positive Impacts of Fairy Tales for Children,”. Leilani VisikoKnox-Johnson. This article got may attention because it explained the way therapist and counselors can use fairy tales to help children. One article I choose from list B is  “Rediscovering the Power of Fairy Tales”. by Mary Howarth. This article got my attention because as a teacher in a preschool classroom children are curious and being read fairy tales that are age appropriate and taught in a developmental appropraite way, children will be able to be creative and connect to the stories. 

I believe that text should be ket in their authentic language for historical context. There should differently be an age limit and the context needs to be label with the age limit. Adults and student in college should have the maturity to understand the reason why some authors need to have that type of language. It can help us understand historic experiance people have faced and the impact it has. It not easy to hear and if you can’t listen or read it then I think that’s also okay and they should have the right to explain why they don’t feel comfortable to hear a story that have slurs. Students in high school still struggle with hearing racial slurs and it can affect how they feel.  

I would rate my reading in poems a 5/10, I have always struggled with poems. I always need to re-read it, especially if the poems are complex and have strong vocabulary words that I don’t understand. It helps when there is a definition of the word on the bottom of the page. If not I need to find the definition and re read the poem again. Something that has boosted my confidence in reading poems is in class when it’s read aloud and it’s discussed. I am still not fully confident in reading poems but I have been doing much better in reading between the lines and having an understanding of the overall message of the poems. For example While reading “The Last Duchess”  I felt more confidents I only had to read it twice and I was able to have an understanding. 

In my experience with Essay 1, I kinda did struggle because I didn’t know if I was understanding the instructions correctly. I still have not gotten graded for my first essay so I don’t really know how I did. I did learn from a teacher perspective that it’s hard to follow an essay if it’s not organize. Something I did learn was how important it is to follow the instructions. The instructions are like the outline of the essay and making sure you are checking each point really does help to see what you miss and keep the essay organize. This is something I never really put much attention to and because of that I also struggled in how to start an essay. Something else I learned is how to make a proper thesis and the importance it has when making an essay and why it should not be a statement.

In “The lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara it shows more than the socio-economic issues. The story shows how Sylvia’s inner feelings impact her in a way she didn’t expect and how she comes to a realization. Throughout the story we can see her anger by the way she talks. Sylvia says “What I want to know is,” I says to Miss Moore though I never talk to her, I wouldn’t give the bitch that satisfaction”. Sylvia has a defiant attitude because she struggles with her pride. Her attitude is shown more to Miss Moore who is trying to teach them a lesson. She starts feeling emotions like shame and shyness and this frustrates her. She questions why she feels like this and at the end she came to a realization and her anger was now towards a determination that nothing will stop her.   I good title for an essay can be “Sylvia inner realization to the lesson”