Since the beginning of time I have had a passion for reading. As a young child, my mother enrolled in a book of the month club through Parents magazine. I would anxiously await for the brown cardboard box to arrive, rip it open, and delve deeply into the words that flowed across the page. Some of my early favorites were Henry's Awful Mistake by Robert Quackenbush, Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery by Robert Quackenbush, and No More Elephants by Jerry Smath. I remember trying to find the ant in every picture of Henry's Awful Mistake, as the illustrator made the small insect be a pest to Henry, and hard to find in the illustration! These three books truly exemplify where my love for reading began.
As I grew older, my passion for reading became inflamed when my school began Book It, a reading program that incorporated using the incentive of a free personal pan pizza whenever you read a specific amount of books. Furthermore, I spent my summer's gathering small trinkets out of the library's treasure box for reading my specific number of books! Over time, I began reading without getting rewards, simply for personal pleasure. I can safely say I read every single book I was ever assigned in school, and a multitude on my own, as well.
Today, I find myself reading Young Adult Literature often, as I am a 7th and 8th grade Language Arts teacher. At the end of the 8th grade year, my students immerse themselves into a research project that asks them to answer the question, "What is a holocaust?" After modeling a myriad of books about the Holocaust, Japanese Internment Camps, and the Native American Removal Act, the students begin researching a specific time period in order to determine whether their chosen event could be considered a holocaust. This blog should be used to assist students in enhancing their research and their knowledge on violence and discrimination in our world.
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