Engl: 112 Update on Literacy Research

For my paper I am mostly planning on using the Judy Blume website for a lot of my background information about her and her books. I am still looking for my interviews from Judy Blume as well as more classroom information and people that use her books. But it is going good so far!

Engl: 112 Research for Literacy Paper

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Engl: 112 Literacy Proposal

Most authors write books pertaining to a certain age group, Judy Blume has written many books, for a variety of ages, picture books, chapter books, and adult books. What were her reasons for writing books for numerous age groups? Some of Judy Blume’s characters were based about her family members. Her books she felt she could relate to when she was the age that the book targets. As well as tragic events that occurred in her life that helped influence her to write her books. I am familiar with Judy Blume’s books because I read them growing up, usually more than once. By using the Judy Blume website, I am able to learn more about Judy Blume, her books, and her reasons of writing her books. I also am going to use a teacher website that has a biography, criticism, and lesson plans, about Judy Blume’s books. This is to help show how many people have been touched by Judy Blume, and their various ages. For this paper I anticipate researching it for another week, then writing a rough draft.

Engl: 112 Literary Research

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Engl. 112 Proposal

For my literary paper I will be writing about Judy Blume. I will be focusing on why Judy Blume choose to write her books for such a wide variety of age groups steming from picture books to adult books and everything in between. This far in my research I am only familar with the books that she has written, due to reading them in the past. I plan to collect information by researching Judy Blume's website and her reasions as to why she wrote her books and what influenced her. As well as trying to find teachers that possibly use her books in their classroom and why. I choose this topic of writing about Judy Blume because I grew up reading all of her books usually more then once, and I feel it would be interesting to find out more about her and why she choose to write books not focusing on just one age group but many.

Engl. 112 Progress on Literacy Paper

As of right now I have not made too much progress on my paper, as I have been sick now for 2 1/2 weeks and have been falling behind everything with school and trying to study for tests and finish my research paper. Needless to say I have been good all semester about not being over-whelmed, but I am now. I have been thinking about my literacy paper, trying to figure out if I can do anything with the author Judy Blume, I know that she has written books that I read in grade school, and then books that I read in middle school. She was my favorite, but I'm still trying to figure out if I can incorporate that into a paper. I thought about seeing if her books were aimed for the age categories that they fall, and if some were made to help the realization of a girls changing body. At this point I'm not for sure if I can. I plan on printing off the requirements and letting a friend of mine who sub. teaches look at it and see if she had any ideas. :)

Engl. 112 Field Research

For my field research I interviewed someone who is in criminal justice and her job is with kids that are in a detention center. I didn't really learn more then what I had mostly all ready concluded on my own. Ways that children are raised does play a role in the way that they lead their lives. According to my interviewier she felt that there is a direct role in the child develpment and teenage crime. I asked if bonding was important in child development, and she did agree that it was. I asked if child development could lead to psycholgical problems in their future in her opinion, she also agreed that abuse and neglect could lead to possible disorders. My interview was on a short time frame, so I wasn't able to ask all of my questions but, I was happy to have supporting answers to my paper.

Engl. 112 Research

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Engl: 112 Field Research

I have completed my interview, only with someone different because I could never make contact with the other person, but its still not too late. My interview now, is directed towards someone who works with children that have criminal pasts. My questions mostly were regarding the way that they children were raised and if she felt there was a link between their raising and their crimes.