TASK 1: CRITICAL RESPONSE (a) Article 1: Teaching English Grammar in Malaysian Primary School by Ruth Wickham. This article is basically about the techniques and approaches that can be used to teach grammar in Malaysian Primary school. There is one section in this article where Wickham talks about covert and overt approach. According to Wickham‚ covert approach requires teacher to teach the grammar rules indirectly to the students. Instead of explaining the grammar rules to the students‚ teacher
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the city would respond to an attack like the one in Paris and found out that they had a problem. Three days after the attacks on Paris‚ the New York police went on an “offense and defense” strategy in response to the terrorism threats. “The story of how the new unit‚ known as the Critical Response Command‚ came into being traces the history of the city’s evolving approach to terrorism‚ from the creation of the counterterrorism and intelligence divisions in the months after the attacks of 2001‚ to
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Module 4 – Section 4 Assignment: Critical Response to Poetry 1. Every word in “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” communicates a part of the meaning to the readers. Each word conveys more of the impact of a dream unaccomplished. The author is not literally saying but instead is asking. He is imposing the readers to think about a dream deferred. Without having to say it literally‚ the question rises in the minds of the readers; do I have dreams that have been left sitting? Are they causing this heavy
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Rieman April 7‚ 2010 Is School really necessary? All throughout my educational career I had never taken the time to reflect on what school really meant to me and if school was made optional would I still attend? After reading the essay “Against School‚” by John Taylor Gatto a series of questions began to arise in my head. Is school really that necessary? Is it really the only way for a person to be successful in life? According to John Taylor Gatto schools are nothing but merely “laboratories
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Name: Cici Li Assignment: Critical response Topic: Globish Summary Cuthbert and Jackson both discuss Globish which is a simplified form of English. They have different opinion on Globish. Cuthbert indicates that Globish is an easy way of communication‚ while Jackson states that Globish is lack of accuracy. They both talk about vocabulary‚ grammar and culture. Jackson claims that culture are very important to language‚ whereas Cuthert maintains that language can separate from culture
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Adolescent Psychology Response Paper to Annie John Response Paper for Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Annie John was‚ in my opinion‚ as poignant and universal a book dealing with adolescence as I have ever come across. The fact that it was the story of an adolescent girl‚ and that it took place in Antigua‚ in a vastly different racial‚ social‚ and economic climate than in which I personally grew up in‚ did nothing to lessen my ability to relate to the universal themes of adolescent
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“Against School” is an argumentative essay that tells about how the public education system incapacitates the children of today. It was written by John Taylor Gatto. In this reading‚ Gatto claims that the public education system causes children to become bored with themselves‚ to conform to the way of the school and its teachers‚ and it causes them to lack the ability to deal with issues that go on in the real world‚ outside of school. Gatto’s explanation for this is that it is partially the teachers’
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Critical Response: Listening to Popular music David Riesman During the 1950s a sociologist by the name of David Riesman published a study on the listening habits of teenagers. In the study itself he addresses Adorno’s assumptions about the power of the music industry over consumers. After completing interviews with approximately 150 youths‚ Riesman found that a minority group’s critical attitude toward mainstream popular music led them to make alternative choices for themselves. According to Riesman
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After closely studying the fresco The Flight into Egypt by Giotto‚ the tempera panel The Rucellai Madonna by Duccio and the gilding The Annunciation by Martini‚ it is evident that the content and style of each painting is influenced majorly by the process in which it was created. Discussed will be the extent to which I believe these paintings are affected by the medium they are created from‚ with specific evidence. The artist Giotto could be described most accurately‚ although amongst other things
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In “A Fable for Tomorrow‚” Rachel Carson‚ a professional writer‚ scientist and ecologist‚ illustrates in her essay a small town in the heart of America being breathtaking and a site of beauty before the act of man desolate and ruin the environment with pesticides. The town is vibrant‚ full of life and color with fields of farms‚ animals and wild life. The author describes the town by seasons as having colors of flames abroad the oak and maple trees in autumn. In fall‚ foxes and deer travel across
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