A memory that I wanted to share with you all but couldn't do it last week was when Me and my family were held hostage in our home 6 years ago. This is very hard for me to talk about but I know that I need to for it to help me.
SAD MEMORY:
It was 3 am and my dad had jsut left the house to go down to the milk barn like he always did at that time. The workers that worked for us, got the cows in as normal. But thats when my mom heard a knock on our back door. It was the men, they busted their way in and thats when my mom was screaming for me to call 911. But that early I had no clue what was going on so I just walkeed around the corner and thats when I saw my mom getting beat up by one of the men and the other one preceeded to come from behind me and put a knife to my neck. It was horrifying. Just then they told us to call my dad from down at the barn and asked us to tell him to come back up to the house. This is when they demanded money from us. We had to wait until the bank opened at 8:30 for my dad to leave. They told him that if he was followed that they would kill my mom and I. I was so terrified. I didnt know what to think. My dad came back with the amount that he could get and thats when they tied us up upstairs and then left the house in my moms suburban. My mom untied herself, then she untied me and my dad. he went searching the house to make sure that they had left. When we knew that they had, we called the cops. We told him to come in an unmarked car because we didnt know for sure if they were gone or not from the property. 15 minutes later he and all of the Medina County Sheriff Department were coming up our road. 30 minutes before the report had been made DPS pulled the men over in pleasenton for looking suspicious. They said that they were running an earn for their boss from La Coste and the officer let them go. The men then preceeded to Laredo where they left my moms car and on foot headed to Mexico. One of the men is still somewhere in Mexico, the other one is in the Medina County Jail.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Blog # 4 3344 RAFT
R: sea
A: sea creatures
F: story
T: swim
The sea was talking to the sea creatures and told them that in order for her to do her job that they needed to swim. So They swam and swam until this big wave came and carried them off to another part of the world. The sea kept telling them that if they kept swimming that they would get to see the whole world and that she would taek them whereever they wanted to go. So the sea creatures kept on swimming and ended up seeing all the places that they wanted because the sea never stopped. She kept her promise to them.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Blog # 2 EDRG 3344
Question: What are some examples of Pre/ During/ Post strategie? How do these strategies help students?
Pre strategies: doing a book walk or predeicting what is going to happen in the text.
During strategies: asking questions while reading a story, talking about what is happening and having students guess what will happen next in the story
Post strategies: Asking them questions in a test form about what they just read or having the students do a project about the story that they just finished reading.
These strategies help students because they tend to learn more than just reading the book and talking about it at the end. It is important to get the students involved in what they are reading. They also tend to learn more doing different activities before, during, and after reading. If the experience is fun for them they grasp what they are reading. If not then they just tend to put it aside and not remember.
Before reading a story, like If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, to get them interested itwould be fun to give them each a cookie while you do the book walk.
While you are reading them the story you could, have a book box that has items from the book inside and have the students guess what you will pull out of the box that would happen to come next in the story.
After you ahve finished the book, you could have them answer some questions in the form of a game and then have them do a group project where they have to somehow show in order what happened in the story.
This helps a student have fun with what they are reading instead of just having them sit there and listen and get distracted by things around them. I know that I used to have that problem. I can't wait to help students with their reading and get them interested in books. Reading is so much fun!!!
Pre strategies: doing a book walk or predeicting what is going to happen in the text.
During strategies: asking questions while reading a story, talking about what is happening and having students guess what will happen next in the story
Post strategies: Asking them questions in a test form about what they just read or having the students do a project about the story that they just finished reading.
These strategies help students because they tend to learn more than just reading the book and talking about it at the end. It is important to get the students involved in what they are reading. They also tend to learn more doing different activities before, during, and after reading. If the experience is fun for them they grasp what they are reading. If not then they just tend to put it aside and not remember.
Before reading a story, like If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, to get them interested itwould be fun to give them each a cookie while you do the book walk.
While you are reading them the story you could, have a book box that has items from the book inside and have the students guess what you will pull out of the box that would happen to come next in the story.
After you ahve finished the book, you could have them answer some questions in the form of a game and then have them do a group project where they have to somehow show in order what happened in the story.
This helps a student have fun with what they are reading instead of just having them sit there and listen and get distracted by things around them. I know that I used to have that problem. I can't wait to help students with their reading and get them interested in books. Reading is so much fun!!!
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