Tell a story Tuesday

 I am  going to try  and start  something     blog  world  and  i need your  help. I am going to  try and   recommend  books on the disability  experience.   If you  have any   good  books  in this  category  leave a comment  and who  knows   your  recommendation may lead to  a  post on that book   now  for my  first book  Accidents of  Nature.

 Accidents of  Nature   is  such a great   book  it  is about   a  teenager  with  CP who  goes  to a camp  for    all  kinds of  kids   with disabilities.  Set in  the  summer  of 1970  it     talks  about    stereotypes that    the disabled community  has to  face.  The  characters  are   well  written and  their are a lot  of things to think about  after  you  put the  book  down.      This  is  by  far  one of the  best books on disabilities  I have ever  read

Happy St Patricks Day

I were green today and had a cupcake. A good day indeed


In case you want to read about elfs and faries My aunt JO martin has four books out that are kid friendly. There are chapter books about a girl named Lily kingmen who enters another world on the eve of her 18th birthday only to fine out that she herself is fiery from a famous fairy family

Do not go buy books just yet because I might have a give a way later if i get permission from my aunt

A perfect example of Inculsion.

time 12:20 Augest 9 2010
place English classroom belonging to Mr T who is an general ed teacher a bunch of students inculcating AZ who has NVLD and CP making group work and public speaking hard for her to do.

Mr.T was talking to his students about Orthello and to start out the unit he was taking a abbreviated script for groups of three to act out. Mr.T knows how hard group work is for Az so he says that she is Director and has to find out the tone of the play. AZ loves the idea because he told her it is kinda like AP work( he also teaches to Senior AP- English) and she has always wanted to take. About ten minutes latter the class reconvines and he sits with AZ and togeter watch the play ( a actor who will remain nameless) got near the director but he moved back much to AZ's delight) Then Mr T asks AZ a question and she got it wrong but it dose not matter what matters is that Inclusion happened and she was one happy girl at lunchtime. Mr.T is genius





Why did it work: Mr .T knows that social stuff are hard for AZ & IT always ends in frustration of monopolizing the project. He also knows that Az loves a challenge and wishes that she was in AP. He put 2 together took the script and wrote tone on it in certain points for her to do while the others were practicing the same scene. He then helped check her work when she was done at his desks. The result is one happy well ran classroom and a kid who can grin and say that she was an director today and had fun doing a special job.
AZ 8-10-09

Book excert again

last year when I posted this no one commented so hopefully this year will be different.

posted 10/29/08

The Invisible teens is about six middle school students who have disabilities/ Alexis Bounding is the character that has a lot of my personalty in it, She Has mild Cp and has NLD as well. This excerpt will help u get to know Alexis Bounding more I hope y like it.

Do Not Not Copy without my permission ( I am a reasonable girl all y need to do is ask and include the link to my blog

The bell rang and the teacher came inside with the girl who dropped off her brother and introduced herself again took the morning role and handed out a packet of papers. Among them was a syllabus of the class, a list of required mar tiles we would need for herProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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lass, a concert sheet that she used to keep in touch with our parents or guardians and a homework colander that we get every Monday for the remainder of the year . “Okay guys now I want to see if you guys studied for the capitals this summer,” Ms Cronic said. “Now what we will do is start here,” Ms .Cronic pointed to the desk on next to mine. “When I point at you introduce yourself and then recite the state’s name and its capitol.”

The boy beside me said ”My name is Joel Anderson. The started Ms.Cronic is pointing to is Nevada and its capitol is Carson City”.

“Your turn,” she says to me.

“I’m Alixes Bounding. The state Ms.Cronic is pointing to is Alaska and its capitol is Juneau.”

“What” she said. The whole class energy was on me it was if my cell phone had went off in the middle of class.

“My name is Alixes Bounding. The state Ms.Cronic is pointing to is Alaska and its capitol is Juneau.”

“Alyssa whets the state’s.”

“My name is Alixes not Alyssa”

“Alixes “ she said looking at the seating chart.

“ My name is Alixes Bounding. The state Ms.Cronic is pointing to is Alaska and its capitol is Juneau.”

“No not Shasta” I saw two girls whispering and could bet you it was about me. I knew the state’s name . The teacher was mocking me by saying things that was anything but the state’s name. I wanted out of the chair away from this mortification.

“Alaska Alaska,” I said hoping someone would understand me .

“I’ll help you out the state’s name is Alaska . What’s the capitol?” Ms.Cronic said.

“I know it’s Alaska and the capitol is Juneau,” I said.

“What?”

“Juneau,”

“Jupiter” said the teacher, ”sorry honey that’s a name of a planet”. Looking at Joel Anderson I could tell he was trying hard not to laugh. When I did this he began to giggle and so did a fewer others.

“Juneau,” said one of my classmates. I turn around to see a girl blond hair and hazel eyes whose t- shirt said born to play Soccer written in bubble letter the girk who droped off her brother

“Vary good . The capitol of Alaska is. ” said Ms. Cronic.

“ Jupiter” said Joel Anderson. The giggling that had continued picked up the rest of the class except for the girl, the teacher

“Hay that’s not funny,” said Ms. Cronic, “everybody makes mistakes. Alixes just got confused that’s all. Now who is next .”