THE LOST THING Shaun Tan Teacher’s Notes By Nancy Mortimer Contents • • • • • Introduction Language and Literacy Visual Literacy Design and Layout Discussion Points The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan Teacher’s Guide 2009 Page 1 of 8 www.hachettechildrens.com.au INTRODUCTION The Lost Thing is the first picture book that Shaun Tan has both written and illustrated‚ and the result is a wonderful‚ warm‚ humorous story that will be read and enjoyed by a wide range of
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Literary Pieces In this lesson I learned so many things about Literature. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. In broadly speaking‚ “ Literature” is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works‚ but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination‚ including works of poetry‚ drama‚ fiction‚ and nonfiction. In simple words Lieterature is an art of written words. Litera means Letter ( alphabet a-z‚ word-sentence-paragraph)
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Drink Me! Advertisements are designed to grab the reader’s attention in a short amount of time. The point is to make the product memorable and appealing. People are more likely to purchase a product that has an interesting visual advertisement that he or she can understand than one that is boring or difficult to understand. Vitamin water has developed a new low calorie drink. The vitamin water 10 advertisement is effective because of the variety of flavors shown‚ the word choices‚ and the appearance
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JudyAmsel@gmail.com The Music in Me by Judy Amsel “Make sure you’re all on stage at 5:45 pm. Dress rehearsal will go till 8:10. Then you’ll have 20 minutes to relax‚ grab a bite‚ go to the bathroom‚ and change. Our concert begins at 8:30 pm sharp!” Those are the words I heard from my conductor‚ Anita Kamien‚ on the morning before our last concert. That final dress rehearsal was a source of embarrassment for me when a shrill “Judy!” was heard throughout the
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Me‚ myself and I I was born to this imperfect world on an April day of the year 1996 in the young country of the United Arab Emirates. That April 25th‚ a Lebanese couple was given their first born daughter who they later named Nahla Jaber. As I grew‚ I went through many phases- From being obedient to showing the rebelliousness inside me. My personality started to develop and I noticed I was mostly a happy person. Although I come from a conservative and traditional family‚ my own
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patterns can be difficult. Well maybe that’s just me because I don’t even understand mine at times. But I know that this is a challenge that I must face because in my opinion psychology is one of the most practical GE courses I am taking now. And the more I understand‚ the clearer it gets. The interesting thing about psychology is that it has the potential to explain almost every human behaviour. From the way we think to the way we do certain things‚ psychology finds a way to try and explain that
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He or she is their sole beneficiary. Because parents typically make a high investment in nurturing and providing for the child‚ they often have a high expectation of return. They expect the child to turn out well. As one parent once memorably told me: "No one who has an only child is content to have an average child‚ or at least to believe they do." In response‚ only children tend to want to perform well for their parents. And third‚ the only child has unrivalled access to parents and everything
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“ The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me.” is a story about Sherman Alexie an Indian boy who grew up on the Spokane Indian reservation‚ and how reading and writing helped his life became succeed‚ and how reading and writing helped his fate turned. At begin of story‚ Alexie mention that he lived in a Spokane Indian reservation. His family is poor‚ but his parents try hard to find a minimum-wage job or other thing to make his family being middle-class by reservation standards. Alexie’s family
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I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me Philippians 4:13 I am not afraid of anything because I know that the Lord Jesus Christ is with me. There isn’t anything God can’t do which means because I have him in me and with me I too can do all things. I know that‚ I believe that‚ and I have accepted that grace from him so I am capable of anything because where I am weak I can pray to God and he will lead me through. When there are things that need to be done and I know I can’t do it
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"Lean on Me" Joe Clark initially shows himself to be a fine organizer‚ whose leadership style can be best described by Authority-compliance management. Clark is a self-assured‚ forceful‚ strong willed principal‚ perfectly confident of the rightness of personal decisions. Sometimes he demonstrates aggressive‚ overemotional behavior‚ with his energy being directed at sweeping away everything and everyone standing in his way. The scene when he fires the school music teacher illustrates how he fails
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