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Learning Letter

Dear Sean, Throughout this class I have grown significantly in my personal, work, and my educational life.   I truly enjoyed this class, the friends I met, and the opportunities this class offered me that has overall shaped me as a soon to be educator.   I especially enjoyed listening to my classmates’ presentations and getting to learn more about the core content areas, as well as get introduced to new materials and resources that I can refer to and use when I am teaching my own class.   Without this class, I wouldn’t have been introduced to so many great novels.   The content portfolio project especially helped me reflect on just how beneficial this class was, as well as helped me organize my thoughts about this class, just how much I learned, and how I can apply this knew knowledge to my someday classroom.   I learned so much helpful information throughout this course that has impacted me and helped me improve in all aspects of my life. Although I struggl...
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Reading Presentation

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Blog Post 7

For today’s reading, I found all the information to be extremely helpful to me.  I have yet to take a grammar or linguistics class and so the first 15 pages of the assigned reading in the textbook was new to me.  I especially found this information to be beneficial to my education and expand my personal knowledge of proper grammar.  I appreciated the examples and the pace at which each term was explained.  I thought the way the book examined each term by giving the definition, examples of words and phrases that fall under its category, and then examples of how/where it is used really helped this new information click in my head, even though it was my first time learning it.  Overall, I enjoyed the read, even though it was hefty, it was truly beneficial to me. As I read further into the assigned reading, more and more of the information became familiar to me. I did know the ins and outs of persuasive and informative writing prior; however, this was a great re...
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Writing Text Presentation

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Blog Post 6

        I thought the reading in the NES textbook was extremely helpful. Even though it was a lot of reading, I thought the information stated in the text is pivotal to know as a student who is pursuing a teaching career. I especially liked how the book broke down each type of essay students will be expected to learn in school. Not only did they go in depth about how to teach these essays, but also new ways to brainstorm and helpful ways that students can use to better grasp the concept of “how-to” write these specific types of papers.  I especially like how on page 93 of the NES textbook (towards the beginning of the assigned reading), the book broke down all the necessities for students to fully understand how to write. They went back to the basics of verbs, nouns and adjectives, all the way down to the structure of sentences. It is important to remember as a teacher that you cannot assume that your students know something. It is better to go ove...
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Visual Literacy/Graphic Novel Presentation

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American Born Chinese (A Graphic Novel) by Gene Luen Yang  Handout: Brochure   Power-point:
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Blog Post 5

        As for the reading in the NES textbook, I found the information on how to create, edit, interpret and understand different forms of media in daily activity to be very valuable.  I think it is very important for students to learn how to interpret or “read” all forms of media.  This is a skill that will help students to thrive in todays society that revolves around media and new technology, this is pivotal in a multitude of careers.  As a teacher, one is constantly using multimedia platforms throughout the day for educational purposes.  I know that in careers all over the United States media is not only a key component in running the company, but the company could even be founded on this specific media source.  All over the U.S. today media is used as a tool in some way or another in every single career.  I am a barista at Wake Up Call, and even at a coffee shop I am constantly learning and using all sorts of media on a daily bas...
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