In week 12 we were to read “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” written by Mark Haddon. The novel is about Christopher Boone and starts the day he finds the neighbor’s dog dead. He knows a lot about space and prime numbers. All the chapters in the book are a prime number. He has a lot of problems that relate to the autism disorder, like he is unable to imagine the thoughts and feelings of the people around him. If he gets to many questions thrown at him his head fuzzes up and he could get violent. The novel is written from his perspective with some reality and imagination. The story unfolds when Christopher investigates the murder of the dog and discovers some dark secrets about his own family.
The book is easy and fun to read. It is something different because of the point of view and the fact that the protagonist is on the autism-spectra. It is still to difficult to be used in a whole class. Maybe some of the pupils in seventh grade could read this. Maybe I could use a few chapters and make the pupils compare them. One chapter from reality and one from his other book world.
You have some good reflections on how to use the book in a classroom. I agree that the book could be difficult to use in a whole class, and think your ideas on how to use it was good.
You have short but concise and rich in content. You do explain in a good way and also use humour. Had to laugh when I started reading your introduction about when you learned about “schwa”. Your description of the book “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” was, and it seemed like you enjoyed the book. Your language is good, and you do not have any grammatical mistakes repeating.
I do miss more information about how you would use your new information in a classroom, and more about your reflection about what you learned. For example, in week twelve when you wrote that you got inspired to use activities from Benedict’s presentation, you could add why you got inspired and which activities you would use.
This was a great summary of a interesting book. I also really liked how you gice excamples on how you can use it in class, and it is a really good idea to use only a few chapters, as I think the book raises a lot of interesting topics that you can use in a philosophical discussion.