Midterm Blog!

Midterm time!

So my group chose Dr. Seuss’s Hooray for Diffendoofer Day as our literacy narrative example. Maybe it’s not the most intellectual book, but Dr. Seuss was a smart guy and he always had meaning behind his children’s rhymes - which I like about him and his writing style.

 

 

We documented our journey of finding the book via a slideshow. http://snack.to/bunaom9t

So here’s how our search began:

We arrived at Atkins Library approximately at 9:30 am on Tuesday October 2, 2012. Everyone but me was early, so I met my group members, Nikki, Michael, and Bryan on the second floor where they had already gotten their laptops out. I sat down and we began browsing the Atkins search engine online. I was brainstorming on what type of writings could be easy to write about…at first poetry came to mind. So we started talking about some popular poetry that could be used and BAM! It hit me. Dr. Seuss. Who doesn’t love Dr. Seuss???? So we searched online and found a couple of Seuss books in the library. So we picked a random one just so we could find the Seuss section. We took a picture of the Call number and Bryan and I were up first to search for the book (we didn’t want to leave or carry our stuff around so we took turns).

 

Like I said before, our group was on the second floor. And to be honest, Bryan and I didn’t get how the library was organized –it’s confusing. So we started on that floor until we realized it was nowhere to be found. Without wasting any more time, we went downstairs to the reception desk and asked the ladies where we should look for the Seuss books. They told us to go up the 5^th floor in the Juvenile Collections section. So Bryan and I searched for the elevator, and headed up. We walked up and down a few aisles for a good 20 minutes and then gave up. There were simply way too many books. So we went back down to the second floor back to Michael and Nikki.

Then it was their turn. So Bryan and I just hung out while they were gone. They came back about 15 minutes later with a Dr. Seuss book! Dr. Seuss’s Hooray for Diffendoofer Day to be exact! So we read the book and talked about how it relates to our lives. Then I attempted to write like Dr. Seuss in my Daybook and was unsuccessful - I ran out of rhyming words. Nothing rhymes with enemies…at least I tried.

Here's a picture of the page I wrote about:

My daybook writing:

 

Overall, it was a pretty fun time in the library. I like the idea of searching for a literacy narrative on our own. It wasn’t easy, but after we found it, we felt pretty accomplished. Dr. Seuss was an interesting man, and I like how you he can make a children’s book but with so much meaning behind his words. It’s sneaky, but impressive.