This week I keep reading chapter 7 of the book named "Harriet The Spy" by "Louise Fitzhugh." This chapter is about Harriet, the main character of the story who really want to be a spy and she is a girl who likes to write everything down in her notebook, and her classmates had discussed about the Christmas performance at school on the Christmas day and her class decided to do the performance about the Christmas Dinner which they had to some vegetables such as carrot and peas, some turkey in the dish and a farmer who got those vegetables for the Christmas dinner. In the play, Harriet had to be the onion which she really did not want to be but she could not say anything.
This chapter had reminded me about a lot of things that happen in my life. Firstly, in the chapter Harriet and her classmates had to think about the performance that they need to perform on the Christmas day and vote for the best one. It reminded me about myself when I had to vote for something like vote for the senior T-shirt. And also the part that talked about the Christmas Performance, reminded me about the Christmas Performances that I did in my old school. When I was in grade 7, my class has the music performance and in grade 9 we sang a song together on the performance day. In this school, our class also had a performance last year on the Talent Show. We sang the song called "Shut Up." We only had a day to practice all together. Although we sang wrong on the performance day but I felt very happy because I thought that we already did our best.
While I read this chapter, I used the reading strategies to help me understand the story better. For example, when I read, I decide what I should read carefully and what I should not read. When the text becomes difficult, I read aloud to help me understand what I read. When I read, I guess the meaning of the unknown words or phrases. For example, when I read the word "Christmas pageant" I did not know what the word "pageant" means and form the word "Christmas" I guess that "pageant" means "performance." And after I read through the chapter I found out that what I guess was correct.
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I wonder who Harriet is again.??
This remained me of last year during a Christmas, we have dinner together but no turkey because in Thailand doesn’t have much of turkey and I think it is a bit expensive so my family don’t actually buy it, we just have like steak or may be some food or something that is different from the normal day.
Don't put the author's name in quotation marks.
The book's description of Christmas celebrations triggered recall of your own Christmas memories. I would like you to look for meaning rather than recall similarities in experience.
Your description of the reading strategies you use is very enlightening. Thank you for sharing. As a teacher, I'm interested in how students use these strategies and how I can help you use them.
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