Horses by Edwin Muir Homework to complete before class analysis of poem. Directions: select either question one or two to complete for homework. 1. Rhythm: read the poem aloud at least 3 times. As you read it the 3rd time‚ jot down the rhyme scheme. As you read it a forth time‚ record your voice. Listen to your recorded voice and write down your observations. What do you notice? 2. Activity: consider for a moment that the poem is written to reflect a fairy tale or bad dream. In the box below
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Reading fluency is defined as the ability to read smoothly and accurately‚ while using proper phrasing and expression (Bengeny‚etal.‚(2010). It is important that students add emphasis and make inferences while reading to process the meaning to the information being read. When practicing reading fluency it is important that students develop automacity. A professional ballet dancer no longer consciously has to think about her form or steps to a routine‚ a fluent reader should no longer remember to
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he was taken aback and startled to see Mourad riding a beautiful white horse. In fact‚ he was so dazed that Mourad had to say “Yes‚ it’s a horse. You are not dreaming.” All this was too unbelievable because Aram knew that they were too poor to be able to afford to buy a horse. The only way Mourad could possess it could be by stealing. They were too honest to lie and yet too crazy to ride a horse. Thus‚ they kept the horse for two weeks‚ enjoying its ride in cool air and singing to their heart’s
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uses his nowfamous analogy of horses. Only horse trainers‚ very specialized people‚ have a positive influence on horses‚ when most other people would have a negative influence. Surely‚ as Socrates suggests‚ if it takes such expertise to improve a horse‚ it would be odd to think that pretty much anyone can improve a person. Socrates believes that this analogy must be correct in terms of all animals along with human beings because if it takes an expertise to improve a horse‚ than it would certainly be
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Escaping from the reality‚ Margaret Laurence utilizes the short story “Horses of the Night” to establish the struggle Chris had between his imagination and the reality of his own world. The battles he had among himself demonstrates that sometimes life creates an illusion to allow people to explore through the wrong ideas. Vanessa’s perspective of Chris going through his life in Manawaka‚ and living in Shallow Creek had a big differentiality. He remodeled his real life situations into his dreams‚
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Reading Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills‚ but often develops along with them‚ especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages‚ particularly. Micro-skills involved in reading. The reader has to: • decipher the script. In an alphabetic system or a syllabary‚ this means establishing a relationship between
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mishaps such as accidents leading to physical disabilities. In the novel‚ The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans‚ the relationship between a mother and a daughter change drastically for the better after the daughter is burdened with a physical disability. In times of despair two people are brought closer together. From the onset of the novel‚ the protagonist‚ Grace‚ is involved in a freak truck accident while riding her horse‚ putting her in a coma. When Grace regains consciousness she comes to the
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Passage 1 It is well known that the building development company Cityspace wants to knock down the existing seafront sports club in Layton and replace it with a leisure centre that will consist of a multi-screen cinema‚ restaurants and an entertainment centre. But a local action group has promised to fight the £30 million redevelopment of the sports club‚ which has provided family facilities for over 25 years. The action group was set up three weeks after the project was announced. Members of
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The Horses Choose a poem that has a powerful message: show how the poet conveys this message through his or her poetic techniques The poem‚ ’The Horses’ by Edwin Muir is a story giving us an image of the future after a nuclear war. It describes the experience of survivors of an nuclear war and extremely hard conditions in which they need to face during the nuclear war. This poem is divided into two sections‚ the first section is a picture of the world after the nuclear war and the second section
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Awareness in Reading: EFL Students’ Metacognitive Knowledge of Reading Strategies in an Acquisition-poor Environment Lawrence Jun Zhang National Institute of Education‚ Nanyang Technological University‚ Singapore Although studies on L2 learning strategies are a major strand of second-language research‚ recent research interest has focussed on language learners’ metacognitive knowledge or awareness of strategies. Previous research has shed important light on the amelioration in L2 educational
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