Post Reading - as I grew older

Post Reading

Everybody has good days and bad days. I had ups and down in my life like every other normal person. I had a difficultly in my life that I had to overcome and break the "wall".

Last year was the first year I started to take the Matriculation exams. On my first Matriculation exam I was really nervous and I was afraid because all those years I had studied in the elementary school and the Middle School I was prepared for those exams. I overcame my fear by learning perfectly all the material and I can pass this exam easily because I studied all year long and studied for this exam for a week. I went to the exam with confidence.

To conclude, it was difficult for me to overcome but I eventually did it. My "sun" was my self-confidence I was sure I knew all the material and my "wall" was the Matriculation exams. But after I passed the first exam I was confident again.

Reflection - as I grew older

Reflection:

1.     I enjoyed reading the poem, because I liked the way the poet wrote the poem. He makes the reader read it with an intensity of emotion. Moreover I have enjoyed reading As I Grow Older because I liked the way Hughes uses an un-materialistic timeline to his “Dream” journey. The poem makes you read it with an intensity of emotions, by Hughes’s use of repetitive words, punctuation marks and exclamation points.
Furthermore, the poem is relatable by dealing the subject of changing perspective of the growing human being- innocence, then knowledge of the wrongness, and in the end- acceptance and resolution.

2.     I found the poem encouraging because after all the "walls" that stood in the poet's way, he didn't give up his suppressors and he fought his way to be free.

3.     The skill of Distinguishing Different perspectives adds to my understanding of the poem by understanding the poet writing about his dream from a perspective of a child and how it changed as he grew older.

Bridging text and context - summer's reading - correction

Post reading:

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Dear Mr. Cattanzara,

I'm writing you this letter because I want to thank you. Since you pushed me 10 years ago to improve my education and actually read those 100 books, I have changed. After I improved my education, I found a great job and lately I was promoted to be the vice president of the company. Moreover, I got marry to my wife whom I met at the company and even some of my oldest friends from high school work there. They were surprised to see how successful I have become since I have dropped out from school they thought I did a mistake by dropping out but I have showed them I did succeed  

I will never be able to thank you enough for pushing me to do something useful with my old life 

George Stayonovich

Post reading activity - Introduction to poetry - correction

Post reading activity:

There are contentions between the opinions of how poetry should be taught. In my opinion, poetry should be taught with patience and willing to understand the poem without rushing to get to the meaning of it immediately.

There are people who say poems should be taught at the fast way, to get immediately to the meaning of the literature piece and just study it without actually understanding and connecting to it by ourselves because they don’t have time to teach it properly and the have to finish the whole material pieces.

However, other people say that poems should be taught by getting into the meaning of the poem and understands it in our own way without rushing to get to the end of it. People should actually learn poems not because they have to, but because they want to 

To conclude, I would prefer to read poems and understand their meaning in my own way without rushing to get immediately to its meaning. I want to learn poems because I want to and not because I'm being forced to study it and get to the bottom of it. 

Bridging Text And Context - as i grew older - correction

Bridging Text And Context

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Langston Hughes was an African – American writer and a poet.  His writing express pride in being black. Hughes was a leading figure in the African – American artistic movement called the Harlem Renaissance. It's members believed that through art, literature and music, African – Americans could challenge racial stereotypes and bring about racial equality and integration. The information is reflected by telling us that the poet was a leading figure in the movement who tried to settle the disputes between the black and white people. Is it reflected in the poem by showing us that the poet is black and he says to all the black people that they can achieve their dreams, because he did do that and achieve his dream by smashing the wall.

It helped me understand better the poem by understanding that the poet's writing expressed pride in black people which shows us when he chooses to use his dark hands to break the wall that is blocking him from his dream.

Bridging Text And Context - as i grew older

Bridging Text And Context

P-54

Langston Hughes was an African – American writer and a poet.  His writing express(gr.) pride in blackness(ww.-being black). Hughes was a leading figure in the African – American artistic movement that(מיותר) called the Harlem Renaissance. It's members believed that through art, literature and music, African – Americans  could challenge racial stereotypes and bring about racial equality and integration. The information is reflected by telling us that the poet was (a) leading figure (in the) movement who tried to settle the disputes between the black and white people.- how is it reflected in the poem?

It helped me understand better the poem by understanding that the poet's writing express(gr.) pride in black people which shows us when(phr.) he chooses to use his dark hands to break the wall that (is) blocking him from his dream.

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Post reading activity - Introduction to poetry

Post reading activity:

There are several ways that poetry can be taught(What are they?). There are divisions(ww.) between the opinions of how poetry should be taught.(Add your opinion here, in general, and then, explain it in the next paragraphs).

In my opinion, poetry should be taught with patience and willing to understand the poem without rushing to get to the meaning of it immediately. There are people who say poems should be taught at the fast way(phr.), to get immediately to the meaning of the literature piece and just study it without actually understand(ing) and connect(ing) to it by ourselves(why???).

However, other people say that for(ww.) their opinion, poems should be taught by getting into the meaning of the poem and understand(gr.) it in our own way without rushing to get to the end of it. People should actually learn poems not because they have to, just(ww.-but) because they want to (how is this done? explain and give examples. Why is it better to do it this way? How do the students benefit from this way?)

To conclude, I would prefer to read poems and understand its(ww.-their) meaning in my own way without rushing to get immediately to its meaning. I want to learn poems because I want to and not because I'm being forced to study it and get to the bottom of it. 

 

Please correct your work and try to "go deeper" with your arguments. If not, what you are left with is an essay that doesn't say much, just some general statements, that mean nothing.

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Daphna    

 

 

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