Unit Plan: Author Study / Roald Dahl Unit Topic: Roald Dahl Unit Goal: The goal of this unit is to read various Roald Dahl books to recognize and analyze the author’s style. The focus will be on how this author expresses his style and use of humor in his stories, themes and characters. The students will also gain experience with literature groups and the dynamics of working in a group. Grade Level: 4 Addresses ELL, diverse learners and different reading levels through cooperative/literature
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author, the very first reason is that I love to express my opinions through languages. Indeed I started thinking about being an author when I was in my first year of undergraduate. I was mostly motivated by the book, The Seventh Day, written by Chinese famous journalist Hua Yu. In that book, He expresses his opinions about political, social and economical events though relating fictions life after the death of the main charter. Therefore, I was motivated by his several sentences, hoping to become
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My Ideal Job What do you want to do when you graduated from your university? Do you want to be a white collar or a manager in a company? Do you want to be a teacher in a school? Or do you want to be an actor or actress? I will say no. I have my own dream job even it looks like ordinary – an owner of a special store. My special store is a combination of a coffee shop and bookstore. We serve drinks, desserts, and all kinds of books. We also serve wireless network for all of our customers, they can
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placements and positions in the society which later can be used as a benchmark in producing more qualified and competitive graduates. There are books that we can use as a tool for studying different aspects of education and for studying the present topic which is “A Tracer Study on The Employment Status of AB Journalism Graduates Batches 2009-2012. In the book Employment and Career Opportunities after Graduation by Arcelo and Sanyal, the existence of a huge number of educated unemployed can lead to
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| Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly does an admirable job of showing how the British government actions led to resentment from the American colonies and eventually resulted in the American Revolution. She does a good job referencing the regions importance early on, claiming, “The retention of America was worth far more to the mother country economically, politically, and even morally than
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educators today is presenting adolescent readers with books that students can relate to and will keep them motivated to read. Adolescents connect to stories that have a theme that tell a story about things like friendship, discovering themselves and their values. Books that show teen characters positively, as compared to how society usually sees them will keep students motivating and will hold their interest (Herz & Gallo, 1996). One such book is Rifles for Watie, a historical fiction novel and Newbery
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The book “Ulysses S. Grant” is strictly a biography written by Steven O’Brien and published by Chelsea House Publishing in 1991. The author writes about Grant's life from his early age to his death. Steven O’Brien includes a detailed analysis of every event that impacted and changed Grant’s life, describing it in an organized and cohesive manner. Grant was not always a man of success and the author does a fair job of showing Grant’s achievements as well as failures because no man is perfect after
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451 BY RAY BRADBURY Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that tells the story of a future world in which books are banned and burned, TV becomes everyone’s drug of choice, and independent thinking is basically illegal. This novel describes about what happens when books are forgotten or suppressed, and it makes the author’s arguments about the book as a keystone to intellectual freedom and education of the human being. Fahrenheit 451 begins with an ambiguous opening line: "It
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Howard R. Stephens Jr. Dr. Cruz ENG 2115 11/25/14 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a brilliant fictional book written by Ray Bradbury in 1954. It is about future American people that do not know or pay attention to education, but rely entirely on technology. In relation to our past generation, people would have never felt this society would relate to our world. As our generation goes on you can start to relate Fahrenheit 451 to today’s society. There are certain things that are out of reach
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happens to be lower than all of last year. That being said, most people associate being poor with not having a job and that concept holds true most of the time. Although, that statement has some merit people forget about the idea of the the “working poor”. In David K. Shipler’s book titled The Working Poor: Invisible in America, he looks at people in many situations where they may have a job but are still below the poverty line or in serious debt. There are many different reasons for these people to
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