#and novak's reactions were the cutest thing ever

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Olga Danilovic and Hamad Medjedovic of Serbia win their mixed doubles match against Team Czechia at United Cup 2024 (featuring proud tennis dad Novak Djokovic)

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Julia Pearl - Readerly Exploration (due 10/19)

Sipe: Talking back and taking over: Young children's expressive engagement during storybook read-alouds

 Sipe BIG takeaway:  Young readers are more apt to be expressive when they are responding to literature. They laugh out loud, shout out questions, use large hand gestures, and even share personal stories from their own lives. This is not a means of rowdiness or distraction. Rather, it is the way that young children make personal connections with text and engrain being a reader more deeply into their identity.

Sipe Nugget: I appreciated what the article said about young children seeing stories as an invitation to be expressive. Story time is a time for personal engagement with a text. These texts elicit such responses because, as expressed in the article, not only are the texts enjoyable and exciting for young children. It is also explained in the article by the idea of carnivalesque, where there is a power shift from teacher to student as they become more expressive. I was happy that this was not discouraged as “misbehavior” but rather, it was encouraged and labeled as meaningful.

Exploration: Read a wide variety of genres and formats of texts to grow in their knowledge and experiences as a reader: Get inspiration from the assigned course reading(s) to find and read another text from a different genre or format and connect the two in some way.

 This reading automatically made me think of The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak. This book falls within the genre of fictional children’s literature. This book is meant to elicit laughter and promote reader engagement despite its lack of pictures. I used it in Sunday school lessons when teaching about the power of our words. My kids always were very expressive in their responses to the book, no matter how many times I read it to them. I often saw many of the same responses as those mentioned in the article, such as dramatizing (exaggerating what is in the story either verbally or non-verbally), talking back (commenting on and communicating with features in the text), or even taking over  (using the story as a launching pad for personal creativity). I would often here my kiddos laughing hysterically, shouting out comments on the book, or even making up their own silly saying, just as the book itself is made up of silly phrases. For my multimedia extension I included a video of a read aloud of the book, The Book with No Pictures, which shows active and expressive engagement. In this video it shows many of the similar expressive engagement reactions that my Sunday school kiddos also had when I read this book to them. It’s also the cutest thing ever, just saying.

 Multimedia Documentation

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oop my bad. So what are ur thoughts

Okay, Djokaraz thoughts, here we go!

I really love their dynamic. While they're not very close, they seem to genuinely like each other, which is imo mostly a result of Novak 'please like me' Djokovic being nice about his new rival and said new rival behaving like the absolute sunshine that he is and being nice back, which Novak is not exactly used to - none of his past big rivalries have been completely conflict free, not even the one with Andy (but that's another post I'm working on), and we don't even need to talk about Rafa and Roger. Here we have a guy who's admiring him a bit and looking up to him a bit and who's just generally happy to see him and have him around (that spontaneous hug from Carlos at the 2023 Riyadh exho lives rent-free in my head, that was so sweet). So yeah, Novak, emotional and effusive as he can be, then goes a bit overboard with his praise sometimes and says things like that Carlos has all the best things about the big 3 in his tennis (when he has just lost to him for the first time at Wimbledon, really, Novak?) and Carlos, especially during the 2023 season, is always mentioning in interviews how much he's thinking about Novak and how to beat him.

An absolutely insane thing about them is that they seem to possibly have gone to dinner together DURING Roland Garros 2023 (at least they were at the same restaurant at the same time and some newspapers reported it like that).

Cincy 2023 is fascinating to me in terms of their dynamic as well because they both cared so much about that match (interesting parallel: Carlos hurt his hand by hitting the bench in frustration during that match; Novak hit that netpost at Wimbledon with his racquet in frustration) and while Carlos was devastated about the loss he wasn't resentful at all (same as Novak with both Wimbledon losses, but he's usually a quite graceful loser) and the match was played in really good spirits - which is something I absolutely love about Carlos in general, that he can make players enjoy their tennis and laugh about their mistakes, and it's so blatant with Novak, maybe because he hasn't had too many opportunities in his career to play matches in such a positive atmosphere - he's laughing and smiling so much in reaction to great points or crazy points. Even during the Olympic match this year, with the enormous tension, there was a moment like that, where they just laughed at the absurdity of the tennis they were playing!

Whenever they meet somewhere at an event or an exho they have this 'oh look at you you big tennis star' vibe going on which I think is hilarious, and they will compliment each other on looking good, they will chat for a bit, there will be smiles, there will be hugs. Then the fact that they call each other "titán" and "titanito"?! Cutest thing ever omg.

There's definitely enough stuff there to ship them, but I'm not that much of a shipper, more of a writer. I can definitely see it and maybe I'll write something for them one day! Anyway, there's probably more to say but those were the things that came to mind first.