Throughout the course of my reading career‚ I’ve always gravitated to novels featuring strong females. Books with strong women who don’t necessarily know just how much strength they possess are my most enjoyable reads. For my craft analysis final project I’ve chosen two works featuring these types of women; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) and The DUFF by Kody Keplinger (2010). The two women in these books are at very different places in their lives at the beginning of their journeys nevertheless
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Adrian Kong HILD 10 11/15/2011 Tuesday 6 Reading Response Week 8 In the readings for this week‚ from Mair entries 54-59‚ the various author’s wrote poems to describe the life in Song China. These poets shared their stories by using beautiful imagery to describe it for them. Stories that describe the noise of rats to the paintings of bamboo‚ the writings of the Song poets conveyed the outlook of the Song Dynasty. Although these poems served as an art for entertainment‚ the poems‚ in a deeper
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In “Living like Weasels”‚ Annie Dillard‚ through an encounter with a weasel‚ explores the contrast between human reason and animal instinct. In the beginning of the narrative‚ Dillard describes the weasel and the tenacity it has in the wild. She then moves on to describe a pond where humans and animals coexist‚ using imagery such as turtle eggs in motorcycle tracks. In this setting‚ known as Hollins Pond‚ Dillard unexpectedly locks eyes with a weasel‚ and in this intense moment feels a pull towards
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Project in Language 6 & Story Map in Reading 6 Third Quarter Review of a School Play Review of the School Play : Annie Last November 23 we had our annual school play. This year’s play is entitled Annie from the Broadway musical “Annieâ€. The play’s setting was in the early of the 1930’s in New York‚ in the New York Municipal Orphanage. The characters of this story are Annie‚ the main character‚ whose only wish is to find her parents‚ Miss Hannigan‚ the cruel orphanage
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Steps for Teaching (as taken from McLaughlin 2010) Explain: Begin by explaining self questioning as a reading comprehension strategy in which we generate questions to guide thinking. Then explain that Paired Questions involves students taking turns in generating text related questions and responding to them. When the students have finished generating and responding to questions while reading segments of the text‚ one partner summarizes the important ideas in the text and the other agrees or disagrees
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Reading Response to Ali and Nino The most evident and reoccurring theme that I noticed in Kurban Said’s‚ Ali and Nino was the importance of religion and cultural backgrounds. In many different places in the story it is evident that Ali and Nino have been taught some completely different things about the world in general. The first major example that I found is when Ali speaks with his father and Nino’s father about marrying Nino. Although they are both somewhat supportive of the marriage‚ they
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The forces that alienate Annie and Jose are their skin color‚ their education‚ and the European colonization. There are many things that oppress Annie and Jose from blossoming into the best they can be. They both were born into struggling families and had ancestors that were slaves. Annie is “more” free per se‚ Jose is a child during the time the slaves are now workers. Even though they are workers‚ they are still basically slaves. Their education is very limited because of where they live and their
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11th January 2011 Jenny White “Reading – Response to Prose” “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck 1937 The novella “Of Mice and Men” was written by Nobel prize - winner John Steinbeck in 1937. It was a written genre of a novella so it could be transposed as a stage play. The story is structured in six sections which could be six scenes if it were a script for a play. The title of the book comes from a poem by the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns “To a Mouse”. The poem
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and Biblical Reference in Annie Dillard’s Writing The Writing by Annie Dillard is very intriguing‚ she shows with no guidance from another source how people must see for themselves‚ so they can truly observe nature in its fullest. She often questions the very foundation of human existence. Annie Dillard also focuses on the creation and evolution and frequently questions God and his impact on the nature and human being. God appears a lot in her writing and Annie Dillard often shows her ambivalence
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AP English Language and Composition Reading List GENERAL NONFICTION Ambrose‚ Stephen. Undaunted Courage. Follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson‘s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific‚ through the heart- stopping moments of the actual trip‚ to Lewis‘s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. For readers who love detailed history. Barry‚ John M. The Great Influenza. A detailed description of the scourge of the "Spanish flu" of 1918 with interesting elements of the practice
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