![]() ![]() When I am teaching in the classroom, I hope to use your comprehension activities and teaching suggestions. Overall, I believe in all of your other blog postings, you developed great examples of how the text can help students think and respond to their reading and learning. ![]() Yet, also allowing people to grow and improve their overall human nature. In Jack Gantos’s narrative Dead End in Norvelt, he uses the theme of remembering history to demonstrate that past mistakes should be learned from, and therefore, avoided. You implemented text-to-world connections when you asked students to pick a journal entry and relate it to a moment in history and you included an example to model what students should do. The literary devices that the author used in this novel are symbolism, imagery, and allegory. You incorporated activities such as comparing New Deal towns and what they were like. In addition, I liked how you incorporated this text to be used in the social studies content because it provided students another example of how life was different and what it took to live in that time period. Since I have not read this book, the descriptive summary you written encouraged me to read it. ![]() Also, I really enjoyed reading your summary for Dead End in Norvelt. ![]() It showed that you put in a tremendous amount of effort in each blog because you added what awards the books received, and images. After looking at your blog posts, I am impressed with the work you have done. ![]()
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