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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
My Current Readings #4
Getting deeper into the book Twilight, written by Stephenie Meyer. As of now we're experiencing a change of pace in the book. Bella is talking a lot about her dad and helping around the house. She says that she loves to go retrieve groceries for the house hold so they can have something different to eat every so often. Bella makes an extra effort most days after school to take a trip by the general grocery store for her father and her. Conversations start to rile up at the dinner table between the two that used to spend silenced nights at the dinner table. This part of the book connects nicely to the world because as a family we should all be putting in an extra effort to help out in some way. I say help out in some way meaning taking out the garbage, cutting the lawn, getting groceries, or cleaning the house. Any one of these simple chores can improve the productivity of the household and improve common curtousy traits. Growing up helping around the house will lead to instant manners as your an adult, as a posed to learning how to treat people and things respectfully when you're already an adult. I would suggest this habit being learned as a child.
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Hey Kelly, this is Rick again.
In your posting, you draw a connection between the text you are reading and the world as you state, "This part of the book connects nicely to the world because as a family we should all be putting in an extra effort to help out in some way." Not only is this a great connection in and of itself, but this strategy, drawing connections between the things you read and your life, is an invaluable strategy to use as a reader. In fact, I don't know about you, but if I can't draw any connections between what I'm reading and my life, whatever the book is, I have a really hard time sticking with it.
So, based on this reading, what are some of the other connections between "Twilight" and your life, or between the text and life in general?
In my last response to your post, I talked about how great it is that you're drawing connections between the story you are reading and the world. Keep it up, it will help deepen your understanding and keep you engaged in and interested in reading the book.
For one of my own courses, we have been talking about making connections as well :) In addition to linking the text to the general world in which you live, what other kinds of connections can you draw with this text?
In a reading that I just did, the author talked about 3 categories of connections that can be drawn:
-Text to self connections
-Text to other text connections
-Text to world connections
So you already drew a great connection between the text you are reading and the world. How about these other two types of connections?
Are there any other connections that you can draw between this text and your life? If so, what is the connection? How does this connection help you understand the text and / or your own life?
Are there any connections that you can draw between this book and any other books? What is the connection? Are characters similar? Are plots similar? How do these connections help you understand either text?
Just some more questions to keep you thinking. Keep up the great work!
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