Meeting Outside of Class

I really enjoyed meeting outside of class to discuss the book "confessions of a closet catholic." out group met at our normal time and had a good discussion about this book and i found it very interesting. i liked that we got right into the book and into the questions that people had written about in their questioning the text papers. we didn't have the same questions so i found that we had a lot to discuss.

i also liked it becuase we got to focus on the book and there wasn't a time limit placed on our meeting. we all knew that we wanted to discuss the book fully and get everyone's ideas out into the discussion. even though when we talk in class it isn't that formal, i found that meeting outside of class was less formal and i enjoyed this a lot.

maybe next semester this could be worked in for one book because i really enjoyed it and i would have liked to do it again if it would have been possible!

dana

Group Discussion about "The Confessions of a Closet Catholic"

I found our discussion of this book very interesting. During our discussion, the main focus revolved around the portrayal of her parents as holocaust survivors. We had a good discussion about how she wanted to become a catholic and how her parents didnt like the fact that she was going to become a catholic when her grandparents were survivors of the holocaust.

i think it was a valuable disucssion because it opened my eyes to the fact that religion should be a person thing and no one should tell anyone what to do, even if it is sur parents.

an interesting point was the fact that her parents were so much against her becoming a catholic. they weren't into their religion so much and when she wanted to change her religion, they were so against it. it was also interesting that her grandmother was teh one person that was ok wiith her changing her religion and she was the person who was persecuted for the religion that she was. i think that it was interesting because she had to fight for her religion and then is ok with her granddaughter changing her religion. i think this emphasizes the fact taht relgion is a specific thing and shouldnt be forced on by anyone, even your parents.


our conversation outside of class was very interesting and i started looking at the book in a different light because of this meeting and discussion

Final Project Post

I just wanted to post about my final project and why i chose to do my final project on this specific topic. I am going to do my final project on disability. I chose this because my mom has a disability that she has had since she was a baby. i was wondering how much chiildren's literature was out there for students with disabilities. I know that this might have changed since the time my mom was a child, but i started thinking about this because i wnated to know if she ever saw a book with a child with a disability in it.

i think this is an important topic and i just wanted to explain why i chose the topic i did and i am very excited to see what i will find out about children's literature in regards to disabilities.