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1 | week of | book title: | easy / just right / challenging? (finger rule?) | purpose / goals for reading this book: | how engaged were you? (0-5) | explain your engagement score & give evidence of your strategies: | Monday start page | Monday end page | Monday total in 10 min. | hourly rate (Mon. 10-min total x 6) | my goal for this week (hourly rate x 1.5) | page to reach | mid-week page check | how engaged were you? (0-5) | explain your engagement score & give evidence of your strategies: | week end page | total pages read | goal met? | other comments: (Did something different happen with your reading this week?) | |
2 | 11/20 | Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education | just right | I read some articles by this author and I've been excited to read her book! I hope to learn some new ideas to try in my teaching! | 3 | I had a little trouble focusing on my reading, but I went back to re-read and think more carefully. I didn't know the author was a classroom teacher! From her other articles I've read, I thought she was a counselor or some kind of college researcher. I'm even more excited to read this book now that I know she's a teacher and will have strategies specifically for classroom use! I really appreciate how she keeps emphasizing that equity is an essential part of trauma-informed work, and also how schools can perpetuate and even create trauma. | -8 | -1 | 7 | 42 | 63 | 55 | 59 | 5 | I was really excited while I read this part because I agree a lot with these ideas! I loved how she said that schools should be places where students and adults can be ourselves. I think many people feel they have to forget about whatever else is happening in their lives while they're at school, and that doesn't seem fair or healthy. And I loved that she said that schools should be places that help us be healthier instead of taking away our health, because I think so many students and teachers feel too stressed by school, and some people feel unhappy here. I hope she has some good ideas for how schools can be healthier, happier places. | 67 | 75 | Y | ||
3 | 12/2 | (same) | just right | see a movie in my mind, connect to past reading, notice ideas I want to try in my life | 4 | I agree that empowerment, connection, and predictability are important ways to help schools feel safer and healthier, but it's so far from how school is designed now. How do we balance empowering students and making space for them to control their bodies and actions while also enforcing rules that help everyone learn? Is it better to give students more time to connect with their friends and trusted adults, or try to help them build new connections? How can we build in more breaks and soft transitions? | 67 | 73 | 6 | 36 | 54 | 121 | 109 | 4 | Even though I know that adults' words have such power to shape how young people think about themselves, I haven't really thought specifically about how trauma can create poor self-concept. I want to look for even more opportunities to encourage students and help them build positive views of themselves now that I'm thinking about how students may blame themselves or feel a lack of agency because of tough situations they've lived through. I'm also really interested in how having more autonomy helps trauma-impacted students specifically. | 156 | 89 | Y | ||
4 | 12/9 | (same) | just right | see a movie in my mind, connect to past reading, notice ideas I want to try in my life | 4 | The examples of projects where students examined their own communities were so cool! I especially loved the idea of having students examine the pushback to their projects through a lense of oppressive history. I can see how it would be empowering and help them take it less personally when they connect their experience to social justice! | 157 | 163 | 6 | 36 | 54 | 211 | 7 in How the Word Was Passed | 5 | These descriptions are so vivid, but the vocabulary is so rich that I'm having to slow down and really work to make a picture in my mind! I love how the specific details really give me an excellent mind movie when I do that, though! I could just imagine each person and place as if I was standing right there with Clint. I never really thought about how southern cities like New Orleans were completely built with slavery, in addition to all the slaveholders honored by names of places, etc. | 194+ 22 | #VALUE! | #VALUE! | ||
5 | 12/16 | How the Word Was Passed | a little challenging | see a movie in mind, connect to my life | 5 | Recently, I've learned a lot about Thomas Jefferson's complicated views and feelings about slavery (ever since all that news about Sally Hemmings was so popular), to the point that it doesn't really feel "complicated" anymore; when it comes down to it, he owned lots of slaves and acted like a slaveowner, even though he wasn't one of the cruelest. However, when I first learned about it, I felt just like these two ladies Clint describes because Jefferson was made out to be such a hero when I was a kid! I loved visiting Monticello and seeing his inventions, and he was a hero to me because of that creativity. It's too bad slavery wasn't mentioned at all when we were there; that's not right. I wonder how much it's talked about on the regular tour, or if you have to take the slavery-focused tour to really hear about it? | 22 | 27 | 5 | 30 | 45 | 67 | -22 | N | ||||||
6 | 1/14 | How the Word Was Passed | a little challenging | seeing a movie in my mind, notice and save new words | 4 | Wow, Clint was so brave to go to the Sons of the Confederacy event! It was funny (but also scary!) when he described how everyone was staring at him when they noticed him, and he even put his notebook away because he felt so awkward! It was powerful when he described how the leader said the people who want to take away Confederate statues are terrorists, and then he described his friends who have worked for that and how he knows they aren't terrorists at all! | 141 | 145 | 4 | 24 | 36 | 177 | 155 | 5 | I'm learning so much from this book that I can't believe I didn't learn when I was a kid. It's so shocking and sad that our country wants to hide so much of this history. I think many more people might be more passionate about equal rights for all if they were more aware of some of these details! | 181 | 40 | Y | ||
7 | 1/27 | How the Word Was Passed | just right | seeing a movie in my mind, notice and save new words | 5 | I only learned about Juneteenth a few years ago, and I was shocked! I wish I could see this reenactment of this life-changing event! The volunteer was | 181 | 187 | 6 | 36 | 54 | 235 | 223 | 5 | I don't know much about the history of New York before the revolution, and I definitely didn't realize there was a huge slave market there that was second only to the one in Charleston! From the way Clint describes the tour guide, I can see she is professional at answering so many questions from different perspectives in a respectful way, but also without mincing words to make sure people learn the truth. | 234 | 53 | N | ||
8 | 2/3 | How the Word Was Passed | just right | seeing a movie in my mind, notice and save new words | 5 | I never knew the maker of the Statue of Liberty was a strong abolitionist or that his original reason had to do with commemorating the end of slavery! It was fascinating to read Clint's description of how he couldn't even really see the chains at her feet even after knowing they were there, and how much a different feeling we'd have if she were holding the chains instead of the cabinet. | 234 | 240 | 6 | 36 | 54 | 288 | 268 | 5 | I've seen the photos of famous people at the Door of No Return, so the new facts that Clint learned in this chapter were really interesting. Like him though, I agree that even if the door wasn't really the last place newly enslaved people left from or the numbers of people leaving the island are fewer than originally publicized, it's still an important site and a powerful way for people to understand this important history. | 293 | 59 | Y | ||
9 | 2/10 | See No Stranger | a little easy | seeing a movie in my mind, notice and save new words | 5 | Wow, Valerie's family was so supportive to move into the rainforest with her, bring so many important belongings, and help watch her son so she could have quiet time to write! I'm so interested in the way she uses birth as a metaphor to how to help change the world while also taking care of ourselves. I can see why her message is especially relevant as our world undergoes so many changes, and I'm excited to read more! | 2 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 36 | 38 | 76 | 5 | -2 | N | ||||
10 | 3/3 | See No Stranger | a little easy | see a movie in my mind, connect to my life | 5 | I admire how Valerie kept trying so many different strategies to heal herself after the various traumatic experiences she went through. She was so lucky to have so many amazing mentors and loving friends to help her through! I'm really thinking about the idea of a "container" to work through our rage in to help us step into our power... I know writing is a way for me, but it's so time-consuming and takes so much effort. | 127 | 132 | 5 | 30 | 45 | 172 | 176 | 181 | 54 | Y | ||||
11 | 3/10 | See No Stranger | a little easy | see a movie in my mind, connect to my life | 5 | Wow! The East Haven reformation is so inspiring because they really made a change in their city! It's so cool that as a first-year law student she was able to be involved in something that is now used as a model for other cities! | 181 | 186 | 5 | 30 | 45 | 226 | -181 | N | ||||||
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