tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11698023670877479952024-03-13T12:00:49.845-05:00Bailey's BuddyAn Eclectic mix of the things which make up my life.jaycoles@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299489611656202052noreply@blogger.comBlogger8729125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169802367087747995.post-759709283218805362019-05-14T16:50:00.000-05:002019-05-14T16:50:03.654-05:00This is not Jay Simser. As many people know my uncle, Jay Simser, passed away back in January. If you are just now learning of this, then let me express my apologies and condolences.
I have just now figured out how to get access to his blog.
I wanted to post an announcement for his memorial service here. It will be this upcoming Sunday May 19th at 2pm at the Arcadia Lodge (107 Alexander Ave.) in Ames, Ia.
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">And he was a stranger ... and strange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Evidently not enough of a Christian for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I told him yes, but I did not fit HIS definition of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Never mind that the Golden </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Rule was my guide stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">What did I look like? A Hindu, a Moslem, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">a Sikh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Wiccan, Episcopalian;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Quaker, Mormon, Jew?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">What does a Christian look like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">There are so many different kinds -- (<a href="http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/a106.htm" style="color: #9800ff; text-decoration-line: initial;" target="_blank">33</a>,000+)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">sort of like all the different apples that grow on trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">or the various peas in a pod; alike but so different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Over the years I have attended, Methodist, Catholic, Episcopal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran (who don’t like to pray with me </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">because my idea of God might be different from theirs) Christian Science, Unity, Unitarian and I am sure there are some others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I used to pray out loud but decided that the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">“divine auditory nerve” didn’t need to hear from me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">since He/She probably already knew what I wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">And besides the Master told me to “pray in secret” so I do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Silently in the silence of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">but didn’t find many </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">people there following in His footsteps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Besides the smell of flowers is </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">much better that that of incense</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and the song of birds in the forest is grander than any choir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> and so all the world is my church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">There are many paths to the top of the mountain but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">“the view is always the same.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">or for that matter if I don’t want to believe in one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I will still get there because God made us all and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">keeps us all, in His Mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Each person is like a snowflake, unique, individual one-of-a-kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(If a snowflake can be unlike any other snowflake so can a person) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">One in all of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Are you a Christian?"</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Well, more of a Christian than you, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The guy who used to come home from the bars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Singing “Nearer my God to Thee,” at 2:30 in the morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Because he celebrated the JOY of being and that is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">My Reading
Program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVkmHxc8GaGXJuqUXxWZN71QsSBlNeJylbkPlvB3iEVzAM-b-GBPhhQKnK2FliKP_NIszCuPc7C2-u7k1VhuUqfgQrVaVs1Z1h7HGMkzQPpDK8cgDn7nJfE6V2DzQj4Ra9P8gdUgg5Fow/s1600/wire-book-rack-wire-book-rack-for-wall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVkmHxc8GaGXJuqUXxWZN71QsSBlNeJylbkPlvB3iEVzAM-b-GBPhhQKnK2FliKP_NIszCuPc7C2-u7k1VhuUqfgQrVaVs1Z1h7HGMkzQPpDK8cgDn7nJfE6V2DzQj4Ra9P8gdUgg5Fow/s320/wire-book-rack-wire-book-rack-for-wall.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay Simser -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">When I first
started teaching (eons ago) I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>discovered
that the Basal Readers were pretty boring for students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was an avid reader and enjoyed reading a
lot these books really turned me off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With the participation of the Reading consultant I worked to have the
students read in books of their choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We did a pre and post test with the students and discovered that they
grew about two years in reading by allowing them free choice and time to
read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">I realized
that these students (for the most part) have basic reading skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them, however, did not choose to
read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">I developed
a series of questions to use with the students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are generic questions and are used either in a conversation about
the books the students are choosing or in conjunction with a Reading Journal
which I have developed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They follow:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Why did you choose this book to
read?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Would you choose another book by the
same author?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why or why not?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Was this a good title for the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Why do you think so?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Give another title that would fit
the book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Which character in the book would
you most like to be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What would you have done differently
from the author if you had been writing the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would you do it that way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is your opinion of this
book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you feel this way about the
book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What do you know about the author of
the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know of any other books
by the same author?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Which character in the book is most
like yourself?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you say that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What obstacles or problems did the
main character have to overcome or solve?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How did they go about doing this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Please describe some of the action
or suspense in the book. If you do not feel that it had action or suspense what
kept you wanting to continue reading the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tell the story of the book in one or
two sentences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Did you gain or learn anything from
reading this book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please describe what
you gained or learned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">The expectation
in my classroom is for students to read one chapter book a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reward students who read 100 books as a
“Century Reader” with a certificate and take them out to lunch at a “fine
restaurant.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several years I had a
double century reader (200 books).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">Most of the
students responded very positively to this program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One year I had a student who had never read
an entire book before coming to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
became such a powerful reader that my the end of the year I had to pull him out
of a book to get to work on his other schoolwork. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">I have found
this to be a successful and rewarding program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">One other
thing I did was assign a certain genre or type of book for a month and have the
students write a book review on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>i.e.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>February - A book by a black
author or with a black as the main character;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>March - A book by a woman author or with a strong woman as the central
character;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April- fantasy</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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