Literacy and Reading Content Portfolio


1. “Percy Jackson and The Olympians”

This is the most important series I’ve ever read, to this day. I love the message that Riordan portrays with having Percy being the son of a single mom, having ADD/ADHD and Dyslexia, and having a hard time in school. The different characters show that no matter your background you can make something of yourself. And just because you have a learning disorder doesn’t mean you can’t be the smartest kid in the room— all while teaching you about Greek and Roman mythology, as well as Egyptian and Norse mythology in Rick Riordan’s other series.  It’s great for students to read of characters that they can share some kind of similarity with them and connect more on a personal level than typical literature characters.

2. “The Help”

The Help is a really important text, not just because I could read it a million times and not get bored of it, but because it gives a (fictional) look into what was happening at the height of the civil rights movement when no one was paying particular attention to the women taking care of the families that were fighting to keep black citizens in poverty and segregated from the rest of the world. I think this book gives readers a different perspective to consider but also make students realize that there were other stories besides those of Malcolm X and Dr. King that didn’t make it into history.

3. Haunting of Hill House

This was the first text in college that I really liked as an assigned reading (for the first time ever).  It was surprising not only because I had watched the screen adaption before reading it and it was completely different from the book, but because it had so many different things to focus on and discuss in class. It was a thought provoking and an interesting read that I would hope to find a middle school appropriate version of this kind of text to introduce and “spice up” the curriculum 

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