...ABSTRACT In this study of Cinderella Stories, second grade students will use charts and diagrams to discover the similarities and differences among stories. Students will develop writing skills using descriptive language and details. They will strengthen their comprehension skills through the use of magical Cinderella tales from different lands and apply map skills in learning which country each story comes from. These magical tales will help students to develop awareness that different Cinderella tales have much in common. Materials Class comparison Chart Graphic Organizers: Venn Diagram Sequencing Chart Compare and Contrast T-Chart My Favorite Part Handout Book Mark Template World Map Map pins Book collection The Rough-Faced Girl by Rafe Martin A Golden Slipper” A Vietnamese Legend by Darrell H.Y. Yum Chinye: A West African Folk Tale by Obi Onyefulu Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Irish Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Way Meat Loves Salt:A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn The Golden Saddle: A Middle Eastern Cinderella by Rebecca Hickox Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo Lesson 1 Key Vocabulary Country — a small part of a continent with its own borders and government Landmark—an object in a landscape that can be seen from far away Title — the name of a book, movie,...
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...who practiced Islam and lived in areas of the Middle East similar to the Balti. I never believed that any story would change the perceptions that had become engraved in my mind since a young age and influenced by the harsh activities such as the attacks of 9/11. “Three Cups of Tea” is a story based on Mortenson's experiences in the area near K2 and especially the village of Korphe. The story begins with a failed attempt of reaching the summit of the K2 in order to put his sister’s necklace there to honor her death. However,the journey ends up becoming a bigger accomplishment. This story is the telling of one man’s dedication to build schools and help a group of people who struggle with poverty to become better educated, especially girls who are seen to not be allowed to privileges of education. Throughout the novel, there are different times in which the Balti people show fierce yet hospitable actions and within this essay I will fully discuss my reactions to these numerous examples. Also, I will discuss in further detail my own opinions of the rigid views of the Islam faith based onevents such as 9/11 and the Boston Marathon and how opinions again after I read this novel. First, even from the beginning the Balti people show this fierce yet hospitable persona. It is evident that these characteristics are part of their culture....
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...being a melting pot of race and ethnicity one would think this issue should not exist. I chose the two poems What it’s like to be a black girl by Patricia Smith and Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales. These two poems are written from a women’s perspective about how racial discrimination is perceived in America. Racism is no longer just a black and white my paper will show how these two pieces showed how cultures are subjected to discrimination. The title of these two poems catch my attention one being I am a black girl and two I am a child of America. I too have faced some challenges that are discussed in these poems. In a country that was founded and built on immigrants society makes a big deal about a person’s race and culture. Why does race matter? Does it make you a better person? Does it make you prettier? Sadly our society has placed into the heads of young women that pretty means lighter skin. That being pretty gives you an easier life. The authors of these two poems are African American and Puerto Rican and they have both faced forms of racial discrimination. In America girls were raised that Caucasian was the accepted race. “It’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering their burn in silence (Smith)”. A line for What it’s like to be a black girl is a clear example of how bad this little black girl wanted to be Caucasian. Society places this stigma that you have to change things about yourself to be accepted. In Child of the America...
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...Jaycee Dugard in a stolen life writes about her heartbreaking life and how she survived eighteen years in a prison no one could think possible. She provides us with bitter diction, calamitous detail and devastating truth of her captures, to assert an emotional attachment for her readers. Dugard's purpose of writing this book is to show the world that her captivator (Phillip) did do something wrong and that they should know about it, she also wants her poignant story to be as an inspiration to someone to keep trying, that’s going through a rough time in their life. Jaycee Dugard starts off her book with her everyday typical morning until she's crossing the street to get to her bus stop This is where Jaycee is taken, this is where her whole...
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...the industrial revolution many children were forced to grow up extremly fast and get a job very early in their life. Being a child is hard and to throw a full time job on top of that is basically insane. There are some serious issues with the way children were used in the industrial revoultion. "Last Thursday one girl fell down and broke her neck which caused instant death. ", this quote is from A Letter From Mary Paul. It is extremly emotional to read the letter from a child laboror who experienced first hand the incredibly harsh conditions. The kids who went through this hardship were really tough, and very mature for their age. The letter really helps understand how normal it was for kids to jst die at their jobs. Also this letter provides a primary source of the harsh things that hapened during that time. Clearly based upon this letter the lives of the children were hard and very dangerous....
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...Children learn very early in life what it means to be a boy or a girl. The binary gender expectations are reinforced and reconfirmed by family, friends, media, religion and even politics (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). From the beginning, children are taught that boys play rough and girls play nice. They understand there are certain roles and activities that are expected and accepted according to their gender and begin to develop firm views about the gender norms. (Johnson, Sikorski, Savage & Woitaszewski, 2014). Children learn that the gender of an individual is permanent and realize that boys grow up to be fathers and girls grow up to be...
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...evident in the home, workplace, and all throughout everyday living. Our supposed part as a two gendered society starts at the hospital when we are born. Boys get blue or darker colored blankets while girls get pink or lighter colored blankets. While children are growing up, gender roles are highly defined by their upbringing. Boys were taught...
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...Did you know that one of our greatest athletes came from a dirt poor background? Lebron James is one of the best basketball players. This wasn’t always so though. He was pretty good at basketball in high school. Yet his childhood was rough. You can say that Lebron James’ life has gone from poor to great. Lebron James faced hardships early in his life. He was born in December 30 1984 in Akron, Ohio (Nagelhout 9). His early life situation was common for millions of children in America-a life of poverty (Nagelhout 9). When James was 9 he played running back for his pop warner team in his hometown of Akron called the east dragons (Jenkins). He scored 18 touchdowns in 6 games (Jenkins). Then he said “That's when I knew I had talent”(Jenkins). By the time James was 7 he moved to 5 different houses (Jenkins). When he was getting out of the 5th grade, he had a passion for basketball (Jenkins). This is what Lebron James early life was like....
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...How Lucky You Are Forbidden love is one of the hardest things, you can ever experience, as a human being. The fact that you love someone, and they love you back, but you can and will never be together, because of religion, culture or other sorts of factors. This is what Max and Ishraqi is experiencing, but they will never be together, because of their different backgrounds. Forbidden love, is truly one of the worst things that can ever happen to you. Have you ever thought about, or considered how lucky you are? You live in a free country. You have the right to be with anyone you’d like. Not everybody have that privilege. That’s the main theme of the text. The writer, Debi Alper, is trying to put focus on the problem, or taboo, which is forbidden love. Ishraqi and Max obviously care for each other, even though they’ve only known each other for a very short period of time. But they can’t be together, because Ishraqi is in England illegally. Another theme, which Debi Alper focuses on, is illegal immigration. Ishraqi is an illegal immigrant, who has lived in London alone for a year and a half, and she is applying for asylum, but instead they ship back to Iran. Max and Ishraqi are two very different people. Max is born and raised, I presume, in London. And Ishraqi was born in Iran, and then she emigrated from Iran to England. Max lives at home with his mom. He is 16. His dad left them a year ago, and went backpacking in Thailand. He hates his father for having left his mother...
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...Kali Mitchell English 1101 Professor Elliott 7 December 2012 Reflective Final Essay This first semester of my freshman has been a very interesting trip. I have learned so much in the short amount of time that I have spent here at Kennesaw State University. I feel as if I have grown, not only as a student, but as a person as well. I have met many new people, made many new friends, and learned many new things especially in my English 1101 class. I thought I knew everything there was to know about writing when I came in on my first day, but I was very wrong. My professor assured me that there is much more to writing than just putting words down on paper. Knowing all of this, I have now learned how to improve on my writing skills, how to write better grammatically correct sentences, incorporate quotes and research and give as well as get criticism. When I came into this semester as a freshman I was very confident in the quality of my writing. However, my self-esteem was soon crushed shortly thereafter. Even though my writing skills had been very good compared to my classmates in high school, at the university level they were just average. After hearing about the on average grades students get in professor Elliott’s class, I knew I had a lot of work to do to receive an A on a paper. I had to do something quick to learn how improve on my writing skills. With the help of my teacher, she made us a read a variety of articles that were very interesting, yet also very insightful...
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...Emmanuel Obeng Professor Rosalie Yezbick LITR220 25 March, 2016 Course Reflection It has been an amazing eight weeks of intense but fun time learning about American Literature. There were some awesome topics, essays and readings that were my favorites. However, there were also some few topics that even though were interesting to read were my least favorite. The body of this essay is going to be talking about my three favorite as well as my three least topic, essays, forums and reading throughout the course. My first is Anti-Slavery and Slave Narratives in week seven forum, some of the challenges Linda Brent faced while she lived under Flint. While reading, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” it actually made me feel very sad for this...
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...Having comfort and being safe is what everyone wants but when I was faced with the challenge of moving to a new school and home life seemed to take a complete 360 for the worst. All my life I've depended on my three sisters, my mother, and the people I surround myself with, but what do you do when you have to leave the setting that made you most comfortable and secure forever? At the age of fourteen, I had no idea what to do when my mother told me I was moving and had to leave the school that I grew up in and the one place that made me feel safe and also made me feel like I could truly be myself. At that time, I felt like the world was ending, I cried for days. Leaving the people you love is the hardest thing to do and that's what I was doing....
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...for me. I was exposed to a new place, with new people, and I didn’t have anyone who I was comfortable with. On the first day, my homeroom teacher made us play a icebreaker game, and I felt very out of place. The game consisted of a series of questions that you had to ask someone else in the room. Seconds into the game, and I realized how quickly cliques were forming. Students from the same school had the tendency to stick together, except for one girl in the corner of the classroom. I took up all the courage I had, and I walked over to her. Little did I know that this girl would change the way I look at people, she opened my eyes to friendship, and how friends become your cherished allies in your battle against the mighty beast that is education. I try to think what would happen if I never talked to her, I would probably still be afraid to face people. She has given me so many great experiences, but most importantly she taught me the value of friendship, and how I never have to fight alone. My life, so far, has been rough. I have faced many challenges that I had to overcome with sheer willpower, and a strong face. Many people in my life made these challenges easier by giving me opportunities to learn, to fight, to win. School gave me my current education, and now you can give me the chance to expand my knowledge into ways I never thought possible. I thank you for the chance at this exceptional opportunity, and I hope you consider me as a future candidate. ...
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...Layer 1 Layer 1 Julianne Layer English 122 February 16th, 2014 Professor Rogers Rough Draft 1 Do we live in a Post-Racial America? If you take a look at the way society has formed itself today compared to hundreds of years ago, you would say we do live in a post-racial society. The 15th Amendment was passed after the Civil War and it guaranteed blacks the right to vote. If this Amendment was not passed the way we live today wouldn’t be the way it is right now. We wouldn’t have a black President; black and whites would have to used separate bathrooms, water fountains, and be separated on the bus. More importantly, you walk down the street today and see white girls with black, Chinese, or Latino boyfriends. Post-racial America has fallen upon our generation and sooner or later, color won’t even be a thought to judge someone by. We live in a post-racial America because people who are racist are looked down upon in the world we live in today. The research provided will explain why we do live in a post-Racial America. America today has stereotypes for all different races. White people have money, black people are involved in crime, Asian people get straight A’s, and Latinos live off the system. Racism isn’t as harsh today as it was in the past. There are still racist people in the world and that will never change, but it has declined since 1865. During the Civil War, the North wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery into territories in the West that had not yet become...
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...the new community. From this we see Toms mental health deteriorate in ‘Black and empty … it was deeper than the darkest hole … no beginning and no end’ The motif and the recurring colour of darkness and black explores a feeling of despair. His new room once at his grandmother's is brown and dark, and nicknames it "the cave." Tom "slips" back into a long, black tunnel after comparing his current situation to the past. As viewers, we empathise with Tom as he fears for his well being. Therefore, Tom’s personal and social boundaries have a negative impact on the way he perceives himself. Furthermore, an individual's insights of themselves, others and the world around them are greatly influenced by the way personal and social boundaries are faced. Similarly, the speech ‘From Death Row To Law Graduate’ also explores how obstacles and boundaries have an impact on on growth and transition. Throughout the speech, illeism (3rd person perspective) is used to provide a twist, where the identity of the character is kept hidden from the audience until later in the story. The technique is used in ‘Who found himself behind bars due to a brokedown judicial system’ to keep suspense over the audience until ‘Peter’ reveals himself as manson. Throughout, ‘He didn’t have a name, he was know by a number, he was just a statistic’ dramatic pause is used. This heightens the tension and makes the audience feel empathy towards the injustice that peter faces. Additionally, the use of melancholic tone in...
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