Using stories in the classroom Topic: ‘The Emperor’s new clothes’ by Hans Christian Andersen I.Objectives: -To develop students’ ability to reconstruct a grammatically and textually coherent piece of writing -To provide practice in prediction skills in order to ease the understanding of a new text -To provide practice in gist listening in order to encourage students to not focus on difficult vocabulary and thus make authentic listening texts more accessible -To provide practice
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The story begins in Norristown‚ Pennsylvania in 1973. 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes her usual shortcut home from her school through a cornfield. George Harvey‚ a 36-year-old neighbor who lives alone and builds doll houses for a living‚ persuades her to have a look at an underground den he has recently dug in the field. Once she enters‚ he rapes and murders her and dismembers her body‚ putting her remains in a safe that he dumps in a sinkhole. Susie’s spirit flees toward her personal heaven. The
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Theme for the lovely bones The theme of grief is the most important theme in the book. The author herself understands what this family experiences. In her book‚ Lucky‚ she tells the story of her own rape and near murder. This kind of experience can be so devastating that the victim must grieve what happened to her and how she has changed. We see her own experience in Susie‚ who not only must follow her family’s progress through grief‚ but also her own progress. It is a kind of primer or textbook
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Sendi Taranis Mrs. Zaffareese Independent reading essay- The Lovely Bones Loss of a loved one and the stages of mourning or grief manifest as overriding themes in The Lovely Bones. People react differently when the tragedy of death strikes and especially when the death is a gruesome one like murder. The author wants us to know that facing this overwhelming sense of loss is a long process for
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frightening thing about them.” ― Alice Sebold Death is inevitable and the death of a loved one can take a huge toll on the members of a family because not only does it cause grief‚ but it also can unveil other hidden problems. Alice Sebold‚ author of The Lovely Bones uses the technique of a dead first person narrator to describe the emotional trauma and heartache the main character has been through narrating her own death piece by piece in the utter most detail. This is done through the protagonist‚ Susie
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Hawai‘i. To her credit‚ Trask pulls no punches in telling of struggles for hegemony and the legacies of violence preserved in everything from images of bombed aina‚ to institutional racism and sexism in our own American Studies department(!)‚ to the “lovely hula hands” of dusky‚ dancing Hawaiian maidens that are drooled over in international imaginations. Doing so‚ Trask participates in many important practical and theoretical debates‚ and writes purposefully and passionately against the
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The Lovely Bones Review In the book The Lovely Bones‚ Alice Sebold does a remarkable job of making her characters realistic to her readers. Sebold does this by telling the story through the eyes of the victim‚ Susie Salmon‚ who sees and knows everything about everyone around her. What is great about this book is that the reader is taken on an emotional journey with the grieving family and with Susie. Abigail‚ Susie’s mom‚ is a character who‚ I believe‚ portrays human weakness. She is the one
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body that nobody really know what happened to Susie. This story is told by Susie‚ from heaven. As she observed how her family coped with her death‚ we’ll learn the truth behind her murder and the people affected by it. Although the summary may make Lovely Bones sounds like a murder mystery/ thriller book‚ it’s not. It focuses more on the family of the victim and the people around her. We already know from early on who murdered her and how it happened. But throughout the book we’ll learn how her parents
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cultural norms‚ Fair and lovely and advertising According to my opinion its is not ethical to sell the product that is at best‚ only mild effective because at a spur of the moment the consumer one feel it is the best but as the time goes on one understands the difference and realizes that their trust and loyalty with implicit understanding have been impeached and this may affect the brand in certain ways like pricing‚ promotion and may be distribution. The product fair and lovely lightens the skin which
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