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Artifact #1: The Me Portfolio

The “Me Portfolio” is what aided me in the beginning process of learning more about me as a reader. I felt that this class was not only to teach us how to teach our future students but also to develop ourselves as a reader. This is what helped me identify different parts of my life as they pertained to reading.

Artifact #2: Enrique's Journey



__Enrique's Journey__ opened to me multicultural texts. All of the books which we read had some aspect of being multicultural, but this was the first one we read so it stuck out the most to me. This not only opened my eyes to multicultural texts, but it also introduced non-fiction to me in a much more engaging way.

Artifact #3: The article “What We Know about the Nature of Reading.”

Reading this article was a good way to learn more about reading and what scholars are saying about reading. As I mentioned before I enjoyed reading the different aspects of reading such as Kucer's 4 dimensions of a reader. Also it gave me the opportunity to think about “what is reading?” By reading scholarly articles on fields such as reading give teachers a better understanding on what exactly they are teaching.

Artifact #4: Persepolis



Before this class, I had never even heard of graphic novels let alone heard the idea of teaching them. By reading __Persepolis__ not only did I have another opportunity to explore another culture, but I read my very first graphic novel. I learned that it is helpful to have both text and picture and that is one reason why graphic novels are useful. Using a variety of text in the classroom resignated as a key idea and this was one variety that I can see using in my classroom.

Artifact #5: Graphic novel activity, "Comprehending Graphic Novels Through the Words and Images Window."

As I just mentioned, graphic novels are a new thing to me. Not only did reading one in this class help me, but actually doing activities that corresponded with it helped me to. This is just one activity that can be found in our textbook that I found useful and can see using in my future classroom.

Artifact #6: Day-Book The day-book encompasses everything in this class that we did. The day book is where we responded and reflected. It is significant because not only did it allow me to explore my thoughts without fear of being “wrong,” but it also is a great idea to use in a classroom. We didn't just hear that keeping a day-book is a helpful teaching and learning tool, but we experienced it first hand!

Artifact #7: RPP

The RPP gave me first hand experience with working with a real reader. It was helpful to do research and learning more about by student “the bad reader.” I feel confident that if I had a student like Jeremy in my classroom I would be able to help and suggest to him good reads because of this project. It also helped me learn more about myself as a reader. The RPP may have required time and effort, but I feel that it is time and effort well spent.

Artifact #8: B Project

The B project was by far my favorite project that we were assigned for this class. The theme I chose is good for both the male and female genders which will be useful for me (and my classmates) in the future. I read books that I probably would have never read before //and// enjoyed them. I learned how to make connections between texts and how to make them fun and engaging for students. This was helpful and by making everyone's projects accessible we will all benefit from the hard work we each put into our project.