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We started a new book in seminar this week called Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol, after reading our last book study book I was a little apprehensive about starting this book but after reading the first couple chapters I was hooked. I adore this book because of its relevance to legislation enacted by our government and the struggles of first year teachers. In chapter six, titled The Little Piper which focused on students who are determined not to like us or their teachers it related directly into my classroom life where we have a student who struggles with anger management. The student when they become angry or frustrated have to let it out right then right now and at times it gets violent or loud. Whenever I think of my classroom management style from my class, I struggle with the Kohn's style or Canters and even Alberts because I would love to find the perfect management style for this student but at times it gets so frustrating because the student adapts. Our student adapts his behavior from what we are doing, we've attempted Kohn's style of not giving positive or negative worth of actions or Canter's discipline of repetition or even Albert's cooperative discipline where the student takes responsibility from their actions. I know that this struggle is helping me to learn more about what I want in my classroom and that by the time I have my own, I will have a plethora of experience with behavior management. In Children's Literature this week, we were broken up into groups and each group was given a article about literature. The article I received was called Reading with Pictures by Kathleen Ellen O'Neil and the article focused on the importance of students being able to decode the pictures in books they are reading. O'Neil spoke at length the importance of color and how that can set the tone of the picture, for example red is hot or blue is cold. While reading this I thought of my literacy student from Emergent Literacy and it made me want to test her on her ability to decode pictures in the books she's reading. The article challenged my thinking about the need for pictures in books for children and allowed me to have another strong point to talk about for students opposed to their deficits.