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Digital Book Review https://voicethread.com/share/14227909/ Written Reflection For this YAL Blog Post #6 assignment, I was tasked with creating a digital book review, where I was able to conduct a “booktubing” (Semingson, Mora, & Chiquito, 2017); in order to complete this review I needed to take the following steps: first I thought about which young adultContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #7 – Digital Book Review”

Plot – Description – The main conflict surrounding the plot of The Sun Is Also A Star is the seeming inability for Daniel and Natasha to end up together. This conflict is exemplified by Natasha’s dad being pulled over for driving under the influence, which resulted in the police being alerted to Natasha’s families Visas’,Continue reading “Victor Hopkins – YAL Blog Post #6”

Although some students may be apprehensive to reading, I believe all students enjoy reading “a good book”. I quotation those words because, “a good book” is completely subjective; students may not know what genre they enjoy, what plotlines excite their imagination, or even what medium with which they prefer to read. Students may be pleasedContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #5 – Victor Hopkins”

Three important points/ideas are…gender, sexuality, and discrimination. Gender refers to the anatomy of an individual at the moment of birth (male or female), while sexuality refers to the authenticity of ones adapted masculinity or femininity – furthermore, how they express that in their lives. And discrimination is unfortunately tied to these themes, as seen inContinue reading “YAL Blog #4 – The 57 Bus”

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13qrooNiXvDDZYZm8ID4_BX3eI77eqCPk Embedded link to my Google Drive audio recording of this assignment. – V.H.

When ‘Teaching Tolerance’ through literature in the classroom, there are many effective strategies which allow students to “discover the relevance of their reading within a larger context.” (www.tolerance.org) One such strategy is “thinking notes” – or text annotations that allow students to indicate agreement, objection, or confusion in relation to the text. Personally, I canContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #2”

Guzzo Diary Entry “Man, what’s gotten into Quinn? I mean, I know we were there and all, but Paul was just doing his job! When it all went down, like, before we knew it was a kid from our school, Quinn wasn’t so “social-justice” about it all – now he’s turning his back on me,Continue reading “All American Boys “Diary Entry””

Rediscover hope Experience more wonder Love the words written -Victor Hopkins LAE 4464

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”