The title of my book, What Pet Should I Get? Written and Illustrated by Dr. Seuss.
The story is about a little boy and his sister went to pet shop to get ONE pet. The minute they walked in, they saw all of different kinds of pet they want and they could not decide on which pet they should get.
This book is a poetry. it contains rhythm and imagery. I would say this is a good book for poetry because of the structures, every paragraphs left you hanging. Not only that, but also the word choices in the book. Emotions also is something we can related, the feeling of anticipation, excitement and nervous.
The hidden meaning to this book is about how important it is to make a decision. With that said, I think it is somehow applied to the element one, two and six from the Six Elements of Social Justice Education. For the Self-love and Knowledge, it is important to decide your identity and your culture and decide on how to embrace it. And for the Element two, Respecting Others, we should decide on how we want to act by showing our respect for other's diversity and cultures. Lastly, Social Action, we can decide on how we are going to take some action toward to some of issues for community and ourselves.
In my classroom, I will have chores for students like line leader, morning time leader, clean up leader, and etc. Student will get to decide what chore they want to do for the day. It will help them develop their decision-making skills.
I agree that establishing some sort of emotion in the book will encourage and draw more readers to the book and to continue reading.
ReplyDeleteI also like how you plan on placing more focus on decision making with chores. Allowing children to make their own decisions (within reason) will instill responsibility and confidence in them.
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ReplyDeleteI love books by Dr. Seuss. I like how you covered the importance of the six elements of social justice. In this case, you said, "it's important to decide on how we want to act by showing our respect for other's...." I couldn't agree with you more. It's amazing how some children books like this one has a moral that makes a huge impact on our life!
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