...ANNOTATING WORKSHEET A Write out the answers/responses to these prompts in your spiral notebook. |If reading a new piece or a first chapter, what is the genre… and who is the audience… and why do you say that? | |What is the author’s main point? | |What arguments does the author use to support his/her point? | |How does the author appeal to Logos? | |How does the author appeal to Pathos? | |How does the author appeal to Ethos? | |How does all of this relate to your life? | ANNOTATING WORKSHEET B Write out the answers/responses to these prompts in your spiral notebook. |What kinds of appeals have been made in this article? Use examples! ...
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...Independent Reading I was successful in enjoying reading different kinds of genres. Before I came to eighth grade, I constantly read fiction and realistic fiction books. However, the independent reading program helped me read different kinds of books. I didn't know that reading different books could be this fun. I struggled as a reader on finding time to read. In the beginning of the grade, it was easy to find time to read; however, as time passed by and more assignments were forming, it became harder to find time to read. Pride Piece I think the memoir was the best piece I wrote. I put lots of effort into this piece. I tried to use lots of figurative languages in order to spice up the piece and make sound more interesting. Because the topic...
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...In my younger days, I thought of the term literacy as being able to physically read a written piece of work. I thought the ability to read was when an individual could actually pick up a book, magazine, or even the daily news, and have the ability to understand the collage or words on the page. Most believe that this simple understanding of what words are on the paper is all there is to know about reading. But what most people do not know, is that there is a much deeper meaning behind the word literacy. Along with being able to actually read a piece of literature, there is also having the ability to determine what that piece actually means or the overall message behind it. This helpful but yet difficult skill to attain is the ability to analyze. Many individuals tend to leave the process of analysis out of the equation when discussing literacy abilities. Some also over look the fact the knowledge gained through reading can be applicable to life in general. Consequently, these talents are not just acquired overnight. Learning to read and understand written words and languages takes time, as there are many more parts to literacy than one would imagine. Although learning to read can prove to be difficult, even for the smartest of children, everyone has to start somewhere. For me, my journey began when I was in kindergarden. My teacher, Mrs. Kroon, had a clever trick to help teach her students how to read. She believed that learning to read starts off with becoming familiar with...
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...matter how we read and write? Why worry about reading strategies when we are crunching numbers and focusing on making a business excel, right? Wrong. “How to Read like a Writer”, an essay by Mike Bunn, explains to us how one’s reading and writing strategies can deepen your understanding of a piece of writing. Specifically strategies and techniques of reading like a writer. Not long after reading Bunn’s essay for the first time I was searching for articles concerning business owners and restaurant management and came across an article on forbes.com. The article is titled “Starting a Business? One Question Could Save You Years of Misery” by a man named Eric T. Wagner, a contributor to Forbes and writes about the core principals and secrets of entrepreneurship. The title quickly caught my attention and before I began to read, Bunn’s questions crossed my mind. What is the purpose of this piece of writing? Who is the author’s intended audience? With these tools sketched in my brain I began reading about six different types of entrepreneurs and businesses, and what sets them apart. Wagner goes into quick detail to paint a picture of what makes up every group on his list and how which group or type of businessperson you as a reader would best make. Wagner’s intended audience is quickly obvious to be newly ambitious, self-motivated businessmen and women. I realized knowing Bunn’s techniques of reading like a writer shed a new light on my reading experience. I found myself thinking about the...
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...English 102 Professor Hanson March 12, 2014 Reading Response for Postman How is Postman’s argument similar to or different from Baron’s. (Hint: it’s more than “they are both discussing technology’s impact on education). To start off, when I began reading postman’s “Virtual Students, Digital Classroom” piece I felt very open minded with how the piece started off with questions. When I first started reading Baron’s it was more like facts being thrown at me and intriguing me. Yes Postman’s argument is similar in the fact that they are both discussing technology’s impact on education, but how they differ is quite interesting. Postman talks about what others are talking about new technology. He is deducing what Ravitch is saying when it comes to how new technologies make new kinds of people and also Ravitch’s conception of the future. The main difference between Postman and Baron’s argument is that Postman’s is more about how technology is affection students, kids, and time goes on they are changing. While Baron’s argument is more arguing about how technology has affected society as well as writing. Personally as much as I thought Baron’s piece was interesting, Postman’s piece really stands out to me. A part that really got to me was when he says, “ These are serious matters, they need to be discussed by those who know something about children from the planet Earth, and whose vision of children’s needs, and the needs of society, go beyond thinking of school mainly...
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...Ashley Wilson Brown English 152 OM3 6 November 2016 Read Between the Lines The anthology The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry captures a wide range of contemporary poems covering formal, social, and creative concerns. Although The New Census includes multiple poems from forty poets, there were two poems that both employ aesthetic traits and were the most engaging. The most intriguing literary piece presented in The New Census is “Coon Songs Must Go! Coon Songs Must Go on” by Tyehimba Jess. The second poem that wasn’t as engaging as “Coon Songs Must Go! Coon Songs Must Go on” but still possess interesting elements is “Tin Man” by Jericho Brown. Unlike “Tin Man,” the speaker of “Coon Songs Must Go! Coon Songs Must Go...
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...“jigsaw readings” that is supported by Ph.D. Professor Oxford. This exercise consists of asking students to put in the right order the pieces of writing that are cut and separated. The teacher could give them the structure of a text as a clue; nevertheless, they have to think about how to put the given script in the right form. First of all you need to have the materials, they could be as simple as you imagine. For instance, books, newspapers, a recipe, advertisements, a magazine, essay, whatever piece of writing is acceptable but it has to be cut into pieces. That means that it has to be separated in different paragraphs. Even though teachers have to optimize their time since there are much content to teach but few hours to do it, do not worry about the time because it will depend on your materials and how long the text is. Be careful about the topic, because you do not want your students to get bored. Also, the difficulty...
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...to focus on this goal for the remainder of the year. In reading, Bebe is eager to get her hands on new and exciting books. Clearly she enjoys reading a variety of nonfiction books and humorous books. She is currently driven to improve her reading level. There are several reading habits we can continue to strengthen to ensure progress. An important reading behavior to solidify is stamina. After monitoring her during workshop, I have noticed her stamina stretches to about 15 minutes before her eyes leave the text. Considering how books increase in complexity and require a reader to hold to more information, Bebe needs to work on stretching her stamina to longer periods of time. Additionally, I’ve...
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...VARK questionnaire consists of 16 questions with four options to choose from for each question. More than one option may be chosen. The questionnaire is then scored V, A, R, K. Based on the scoring, the questionnaire decipher a student’s preferred learning style. The VARK system addresses learning styles, and gives strategies that promote learning more effectively. VARK identifies four predominant learning styles; (V) visual, (A) aural, (R) reading/writing, and (K) kinesthetic. When used in various combinations, the learner’s preferred learning style is described as multimodal (VARK, 2015). As described by Fleming, a visual learner is someone who learns by using symbolism, different formats, fonts, colors, maps, graphs, and charts, also plans, to take in or make important points. Aural learners prefer information in a spoken or heard form. These individuals learn best with use of listening to lectures or speeches, participating in discussion of topics, explaining new ideas, and describing information. Persons who favor the reading/writing...
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...21, 1901, the Taft Commission headed by William Howard Taft, passed the Education Act No. 34 that incepted the Department of Public Instruction. William Howard Taft was also given the responsibility of expanding the public school system in and around the Philippines. On August 21, 1901; around 600 American educators or “Thomasites” were sent to the Philippines by the U.S Government aboard the USAT Thomas whose main purpose is to integrate a new and expanded public school system, to train and hone Filipino teachers with the use of English as the primary medium of instruction, and to inculcate basic education to Filipinos. The American educators taught an extensive curriculum which cover subjects on English, Grammar, Reading, Mathematics, Agriculture, Housekeeping and Related Arts (cooking, sewing, and crocheting), Drawing (Mechanical and Freehand), Athletics (basketball, baseball, tennis, indoor baseball, and track and field), General courses, Manual Trading, and other Trade Courses Outside of the academe setting, myriad of English reading materials such as newspapers, magazines, and books were also made available which facilitated the Filipinos’ speedy learning of the English language. The “Thomasites”...
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...Reading Response 1 After reading the title of the article Why it Hurts to be a Handsome Man on the Job Hunt, I was interested in the approach and results of the investigation. When reading the article I thought it was an interesting subject to study and take into account, because it isn’t something I would ever think could occur within the workplace. The common topics of workplace discussions are typically how women are discriminated against and harassed by men in the office. This new insight of another common discrimination within the workplace caught my attention. My initial thought of the piece was that it had to be a rumor that was circulating within the workplace until I read the research was done by the University College London and the University of Maryland. I feel as though the research was legitimate in portraying workplace behaviors by having participants, or managers view pictures of both attractive and unattractive men to hire for their workplace. I thought the organization, wording, and length of the piece made it an easier read than most articles I have read previously. Since English is not my first language, I sometimes have trouble understanding parts of a piece. This article had a title for each section that described what it was talking about, used basic words that are understandable to most audiences and got right to the point. This article provided interesting information on what managers are looking for in each type of work setting. It was found that...
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...A-ha moments. In addition I want to take a look at what I am currently doing to support my project managers, and how I can improve that support. I also want to revisit things I have done in the past, and what I could have done differently to be a more effective team member. Finally I am going to explore what I can do with some of the new skills that I have acquired. By tying all of these thoughts together I hope it will give me a better idea of how I can use project management in my current role, how I can be a better Subject Matter Expert, SME, and contribute more to the team next time I am assigned to a project. A-ha Moments: Since I was never very involved directly in the management of a project, I have had a lot of A-ha moments. Some of them came during the reading, and others came from the online material. Below are some of the top A-ha moments for me: 1.) The project scope checklist 2.) Differences between tasks and milestones 3.) Describing the differences between estimations Before I took this class I never realized that there was a project scope list interlocking all the elements of the project plan. After reading about project scoping checklists and the online learning modules I realized that everything fits together, and it needs to be well thought out and planned down to the...
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...Medea Case Study Table of Context 1. Introduction I. Aim II. Hypothesis 2. Who, What, When 3. The original text 4. The Underlying Truths 5. Black Medea and Post Modernism 6. Our Post Modern Work? 7. What worked in our piece 8. What didn’t work 9. Conclusion 1. Introduction The story of Medea is one that will forever be told. I personally studied it both in high school and now at university level. It has been performed classically and nontraditionally for years. Why is this? I believe that the universal truths that the script portrays makes it timeless. The work my group portrayed of Medea was in the style of post modernism. I. Aim: To explore whether the performed piece allowed for the issues of Medea to be presented and if this is a condition on the style or the performance. II. Hypothesis: That the post-modernist meaningless contention leads for flippant performances. That’s only post structuralism pieces retain the original integrity. That not all of the crucial subjects can be applicable to modern audience. 2. Who What When I. Deakin University second year students II. Perform an adaptation of Euripides Medea...
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...LITR221 January 26, 2014 All Good Things Must Come to an End A Course Review of 2013-2014 Winter Semester of LITR 221 The amazing thing about literature is that it can be interrupted differently by each person who reads it. Which means that while one piece of writing is amazing, creative, and witty to one person to another person it could be the most boring, uninteresting, and redundant piece of literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature 221, I was given the opportunity to read works from many different genres, time periods, and styles of writing. Some of which, like Emily Dickinson’s Life I and Life XLIII, Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from. While others such as Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River, Mark Twain’s excerpt When The Buffalo Climbed a Tree from Roughing It, and the excerpt from Sula by Toni Morrison weren’t exactly my cup of tea. Emily Dickinson is a remarkable poet who often writes from a very emotional and self-examining perspective. This is why I really enjoyed the two selections of her work we had to read this semester. In her first poem Life I, the very first two lines make you stop and think, “I’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?” (Dickinson 2) Bam! I was hit in the face with self-reflection. Am I somebody? Or am I a nobody? Emily Dickinson continues by saying “how dreary to be somebody!” (Dickinson2...
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...Literacy Narrative I have never been a real fan of reading. It used to sound boring and a waste of time. I honestly thought that reading would never benefit me in a source of way; but reading is beneficial to your body and mind. Put this in perspective, reading and writing is food for the brain. This might sound odd but reading has helped me in managing my stress. No matter how much stress I have had in work, school, or relationships it all just fades away when I immerse myself into a great story. Reading can even relax your body by lowering your heart rate and relaxing the tension in your muscles. Opening a book and letting yourself take the full effect of the story will help you to escape from the stressors of everyday life. Have you ever...
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