Reading is Power

In the course Book Bound there was only one unit where we studied our connection to reading, if digital reading counts as actual reading, what are good books, what makes them good, what is a canon, and what are criterias for literacy. We read the book The Great Gatsby and analyze it with the criterias of the canon and if it should stay in the canon. For this action project, we are putting together many mini projects that we did along the way like a storyboard of our early reading, making a video of a children's book, a group literary magazine, an essay on the book, a book for the canon slideshow and a reading poster. I choose to promote my storyboard, my group literacy magazine, canon slideshow and the reading poster. During this project I had some difficulty in managing my time to perfect my pieces.

Storyboard:

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The Entertainment Channel:

I worked in a group to create this literary magazine. My partners were JM and JR. At first it was hard to pick a topic we all related to and that we felt inspired to write about. Then we all started talking about our favorite childhood tv shows out of nowhere and that just clicked, so we decided to use that topic as the theme of our journal. Some of the pieces talk about a tv show we really liked, while others compare old tv shows to new ones. Some are just visuals and one entry is a poem. As a group, we had difficulty getting our external submissions in the timeline and coming up with a creative title for the magazine. We tried to bring back memories of good childhood tv shows that many of our generation watched.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie:

A book I really liked that I read was The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. I liked this book because it touches on many important topics like identity, race and poverty. Also this book is interesting because it’s not a complete novel with no pictures, but it's not a comic book, either. It’s an Illustrated story and I enjoyed seeing the drawings of the main character. In making this slideshow, I had difficulty with the research because for some questions I had a bunch of information, but the others there wasn’t much. I am proud of how my slideshow came together and my presentation. I really enjoyed this book and hope you enjoy it, too.



The Great Gatsby:

Another assignment I did was to create an essay about the book we read--The Great Gatsby. The question I was asked to answer is whether this book should stay in the canon or not. This book is considered a classic and that is one of the reasons why it’s in the canon, but I argued that Fitzgerald novel should not keep its classic status. It was hard to decide if it should stay in the canon or leave and to get evidence to support my decision. At the end, I got my essay written and I am proud of it after all I went through.