But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, “That’s a flower.”
I love this quote so much, because we often find ourselves feeling restricted to our language and yet we all see the world, it's something we all have the ability to understand. I think that is amazing.
I loved this book. I found the character very lovable and I think a lot of it had to do with his outlook on life. I wouldn't say it was very positive but it also wasn't negative either. It was complicated and that made it real. I feel like I connected to this kid on a lot of issues, how I felt as his age, and I think that has to do with my attachment to this book. Plus I love the drawings, I think they are sweet and true to the character. Even though this book was so easy to read it touched on a lot of deep and important themes. I would probably recommend this to a younger age group just because of how easy it is to read and I think you could do a lot of creative assessments with this text as well. Because Junior was so involved with cartoons, drawing a cartoon representing each chapter would be interesting and true to the book. Especially if you could incorporate the drawings included in the text.
My sister was in a lockdown today. A kid threatened to bring a gun on school, a lockdown occurred and luckily the kids was apprehended before anyone was hurt. But still my sister was in lockdown for over 3 hours, sending loved ones her possibly last words. I got an I love you text and I ignored it because I was in class and had no idea why. 2 hours later I text her and she told me what was going on. I then told her to silence her phone and the steps she should take if the gunman were to enter her classroom. Run. Fight. Hide. That is heartbreaking. I am sad, happy, angry, I don't even know the emotions I am feeling right now. I wasn't even there, no one was hurt and yet I am this mentally distraught. I don't want to go into a political rant but why? why? That is my question, just why?
I love this quote so much, because we often find ourselves feeling restricted to our language and yet we all see the world, it's something we all have the ability to understand. I think that is amazing.
I loved this book. I found the character very lovable and I think a lot of it had to do with his outlook on life. I wouldn't say it was very positive but it also wasn't negative either. It was complicated and that made it real. I feel like I connected to this kid on a lot of issues, how I felt as his age, and I think that has to do with my attachment to this book. Plus I love the drawings, I think they are sweet and true to the character. Even though this book was so easy to read it touched on a lot of deep and important themes. I would probably recommend this to a younger age group just because of how easy it is to read and I think you could do a lot of creative assessments with this text as well. Because Junior was so involved with cartoons, drawing a cartoon representing each chapter would be interesting and true to the book. Especially if you could incorporate the drawings included in the text.
My sister was in a lockdown today. A kid threatened to bring a gun on school, a lockdown occurred and luckily the kids was apprehended before anyone was hurt. But still my sister was in lockdown for over 3 hours, sending loved ones her possibly last words. I got an I love you text and I ignored it because I was in class and had no idea why. 2 hours later I text her and she told me what was going on. I then told her to silence her phone and the steps she should take if the gunman were to enter her classroom. Run. Fight. Hide. That is heartbreaking. I am sad, happy, angry, I don't even know the emotions I am feeling right now. I wasn't even there, no one was hurt and yet I am this mentally distraught. I don't want to go into a political rant but why? why? That is my question, just why?
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