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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Daphna

 

  

Post reading - summer's reading

Post reading:

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 promoted(gr.- use the passive) to be the vice president of the company. Moreover, I got marry to my wife which I met at the company. 

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

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Yours,

George Stayonovich

Not bad. But too short, and again too general. Why don't you try to go deeper and be more specific describing George's life and what he went through in the past 10 years? Remember, he hasn't seen his friend in a long time and used to be close - so he probably has more to tell him.

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Daphna

Reflaction - summer's reading

Reflaction:

1.   I enjoyed reading the story because I think it gives us a room to think and imagine how it ended eventually. Moreover, it has a good moral and we can learn from it and relate it to our life.

2.   Learning about the skills of explaining Couse and Effect and Undercovering Motives influence my understanding of the story by showing me that everything in life has an effect on our future and we need to think before we act. Moreover, I learned that sometimes people has motives to help us even if they don't say it to us clearly.

3.   Awareness of characterization adds to my enjoyment of future stories by putting a little more attention to the character's behavior and understands their actions during the story. Moreover we even can guess their future action, in that way we can learn from them and relate to them.

Bridging text and context - summer's reading

Bridging text and context

<!--[if !supportLists]-->A.    <!--[endif]-->The information reflects(gr.- use the passive form) in “A Summer’s Reading” by shows(gr.) us the information about the writer of this short story. Meaning, it shows us when it was written and what we can understand from the characters' behavior and relate(gr.) it to the years the story was written.- This is too vague and isn't saying much. Please rephrase this paragraph. Start by explaining in your own words what it is that the new information is saying. Then show, specifically, using examples from the story, how this information is reflected in the story.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->B.    <!--[endif]-->Reading this information about Bernard Malamud adds to my understanding of the story that(ww.) it shows me the years he lived in, and connects it to the story's spirit(what does that mean? You are not onlt supposed to relate to Malamud's lfetime, but how his story deals with this period of time and the reality of the immigrants living in that poor NewYork neighborhood). Moreover, it tells us the way the writer used to write his stories and reflect it to the story “A Summer’s Reading”.

You must rephrase your work and be clearer and more specific. Pay attention to my remarks.
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Daphna

Basic Understanding - summer's reading

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count that day lost - correction 2

post reading activity:

1/10/12

Dear editor,

You might be aware of the issue that women don’t really count in society and because of that injustice, women can't be as successful as men. For that reason, women have to fake their identity and do other tricks just to be as successful as men.

In some cases, women succeed to trick the society and they manage to show the world what they are capable of, without limits from society. When they succeed to get what they want, it makes their days worth when they do the things they like.

But in some cases they can't get what they want, it makes their days worth less than lost. They didn't accomplish anything and they couldn't do what they wished for. 

To sum up, society should let women do whatever they want and work wherever they want, without being judged by men and the whole society, just for being a women.

the essay of the story Mr know all - correction

An essay about the story mr know all:

In the story, there are two main characters: Mr Kelada and the narrator. Mr. Kelada isn't a typical English man who is trying to be someone who is not. He got to the ship for business.  The narrator is affected by prejudice and judges people by their appearances.

Mr. Kelada is a short guy and of a sturdy build and a clean shaven guy with dark skinned. He has a hooked and very large nose. His eyes are lustrous and liquid. He has long black hair, which is sleek and curly. He is a chatty, arrogant and a dogmatic person who doesn't like it when people tell him what to do or whether he is right or not. He was born under a bluer sky which you hardly see in England, which means he is not British, according to the narrator he is probably a Levantine guy.

on the Contrary, the narrator is a judgmental person according to what other people wear, and where they were born. If someone is not a British man, he doesn't want anything to do with him. He likes his privacy and don't like it when people interrupt his own business.

To sum up, my own opinion is that I stand for Mr. Kelada. He knows how to live his life and doesn't care what other people think of his actions. He sees every moment of his life as a gift that should be used.