Diary Task Today I tried a new activity with my adolescence (thirteen years old) class. The students are often challenged with schoolwork and can be inattentive during class. They are nice and well-behaved but after three or four years of English learning with little fulfilment‚ they’ve seemed to have lost their confidence. Our core material for the day was a text to practice receptive skills. Our goal was to use productive skills by orally answering questions about the text by memory. Before
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The Decision that Changed My Life “In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie‚ Junior‚ the main character of the book‚ makes the decision to change his life. In this book‚ Junior discusses the problems with his life and how he wanted to make a difference. He describes his family as poor and explains that they did not get a good education on the reservation. Junior decides to leave his Indian reservation to better his education in hopes of having a good job or being famous
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Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl I want to introduce you to‚ Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl‚ by Anne Frank and translated by B. M. Mooyaart. It is the story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II The book is written over a two-year period‚ tells about her life while she and her family are in hiding in Holland. On her birthday she received a diary‚ Anne named it Kitty‚ and Kitty was her best friend ever since. From the
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Dear‚ Journal I can’t believe that awful‚ no good man‚ John Proctor. He had the nerve to pick that whining wife over me. I am far better than that low life Goody Proctor. We have vastly different traits; we are like day night. She is a naive‚ simple woman. I on the other hand‚ am an adventurer. I am smart‚ healthy‚ and certainly far from simple. Why‚ any man would be lucky to have me as their wife. Elizabeth is a old hag who should just disappear off our land. I am a beautiful‚ young‚ healthy woman
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Diary of a Speech and Drama Kid 6th Grade is already hard enough. In elementary school‚ we’re all ignorant to how the world is past 5th grade. It’s the second worst thing to happen right behind being the freshman class in high school. You’re the new group‚ the “fresh-meat‚” the easier ones to pick-on. College simply gets an easy pass because to be different and unique here is almost cherished‚ and there is a higher sense of maturity then in the dreaded 6th grade. I was a young boy bred by
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Amber Kogut 10 AC Eng 2nd Period Mr. Evans January 16‚ 2013 The Diary of Anne Frank vs. Night The Holocaust was a terrible and devastating event that happened in the 1930’s that lasted until the 1940’s. This genocide‚ led by Adolf Hitler‚ captured many men‚ women and their children; this included Anne Frank and Elie Weisel. These two children were of many who suffered through the terrible occurrences of the Holocaust‚ and wrote about their experiences that were shared with the world. Their
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A Comparative Study on Two Translations of A Mad Man’s Diary(《狂人日記》) As a heavy-weight in literature‚ Lu Xun’s works have been widely translated ever since 1926‚ when George Kin Leung first translated The Real Story of Ah Q into English. More notably‚ even for the same texts‚ several English translations have been made by different translators‚ among which prominent ones are Wang Chichen‚ the couple of Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang‚ and William A. Lyell. In light of this‚ with the aim of exploring
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Effects on Same Sex School Does anyone think about what is same sex school? Why any students want to go there? Both single sex school and co-ed school have advantages and disadvantages. If we were parents‚ we would think that which school is better to let children go. Some of them do not care about the issue‚ but it may happen some problems to their children. In other word‚ if parents think about it carefully‚ their children will be successful. Going to same sex schools have had several positive
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The Role of the S.S. in the Holocaust All along people have said that Hitler did the Holocaust. This statement is not entirely true‚ and it was his soldiers did. They marched under the Nazi orders‚ and exterminated men‚ women‚ and children alike. The SS started out with humble beginnings. They were founded and started by Adolf Hitler himself. They were started with no intent to harm or kill‚ but to protect Hitler and his fellow party members. They had 300 members in the beginning. They
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Diary at War Written by Steve Fallon Alexandra Davies March 12‚ 1915 Right now I’m sitting in one of the trenches‚ and I’m watching a rat eat on of the mouldy sandwiches. All around me is a deathly silence‚ and I can even hear the rat’s breath. I must admit I’m very scared‚ so scared that I can hardly function anymore. Mom told me before I left just under a year ago that this would happen‚ but I was determined to do my country proud. Today has been pretty rough. The dead are still
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