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1) Q: Beah moves around in time as he tells his story, flashing forward and backward. What is the effect of this technique of the overall meaning of the text? Would it be more effective if he stuck to strict chronology? Why or why not?
However, he does spend quite a bit of time recreating these events based on his evidence. Although he presents valid points, he could bring them to the reader in a more succinct
Previously, in Dr. Boyce’s literacy class, we rigorously studied and learned how to apply reading strategies to specific texts. Thus, the text ‘Stupid Lady From Denver’ by Chris Tovani (2004) struck me as especially familiar. Everything that was stated in the article brought back memory after memory of all the various reading strategies we covered last semester. Tovani (2004) states that “Good readers separate themselves from struggling readers when they recognize that they are confused and do something to repair meaning”, which rings especially true to my memory as well (p. 5). She encouraged us to seek out challenging portions of the text that confused us, use our marks to label what was unknown, and then use the strategies such as ReQuest,
1. Examine the author’s use of figurative language and other stylistic elements in this chapter. You should have at least 3 textual references as well as the explanation for how their use contributes to your understanding of the text. In the story ANTHEM, Ayn Rand utilizes multiple points of figurative language and stylistic elements to contribute to the reader's understanding of the story.
“We needed to remember Story. It was his job to set the memory in perpetuity. He spoke to us every week. Sometimes Story was focused on one area, like the first residential schools: where they were, what happened there, when they closed. Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative, blunt and without detail.
United States social worker and reformer Florence Kelley, in her speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, emphasizes the dire need to reform the working conditions of children across the country. Throughout the speech, Kelley strives to make the audience aware of the terrible hours and conditions that children face, and to compel the listeners at the convention to empathize with the children in their situation. Kelley adopts a compelling, yet passionate tone in order to call the listeners to action to help the child workers, while still demonstrating how much she truly believes in solving the issue. Kelley employs repetition of phrases in order to emphasize the lack of involvement from the
I want you to know why story-truth is truer than happening-truth.” (171) In the brief chapter titled “Good Form,” O’Brien explained the importance of story-truth opposed to happening-truth. Throughout the novel, the author’s purpose is to use an undeniable sense of conviction to make us believe his stories so that we can deeply feel the same emotions he felt twenty years prior. “What stories can do is make things present.”
While reviewing my first memo the three main issues that I saw was the unnecessary use of verbiage, ineffective use of transitions between sentences and paragraphs, and remembering to completely flesh out each test in the rule proof. The most helpful thing I can do in to help myself is just to reread my paper multiple times and even maybe have my peers to look at my paper with fresh eyes. Being concise and to the point is clearly my biggest problem. I have started to edit my paper down multiple times on different days to cut down my extremely long and over complicated sentences. I also think that if I go sentence by sentence then it will be easier for me to cut down on the words that are not needed for the sentence to make sense.
On September 10th, 2015, my fellow classmates and I entered into Mrs. Fountain’s room, unknowingly entering a room of despair. We had all forgotten that today was the day we would have to write our first AP Language essay. One of the main reasons we had forgotten was because we had been told, “There is no possible way for you to study. The only thing you can do is to come in prepared to write”. The day had started normally, laughter filling the room, with not a worry as to what would be asked of us.
A language sample analysis (LSA) is a tool that generates the coding and transcriptions of a language sample to document the language used every day in various speaking situations (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). Language samples are typically 50-100 words in length and are voice-recorded and then transcribed by the clinician. Language samples are done using spontaneous speech, such as typical conversation, or narrative contexts, such as story or event recalls (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). The speech-language pathologist (SLP) will take the recording and write out, in the exact words of the child and clinician, every utterance (Bowen, 2011). The SLP will then "code" the sample.
“My aunt needs me there or we could go out of business,” is considered on the nose. Saying, “What could it be?” is also on the nose. Avoid having a character overly talk to one’s self: “Why am I here? (on the nose).
While traveling towards the path of seeping knowledge and analyzing critical ideals, we’ve become absent minded towards the components that gave us the ability to read. Since reading is always a part of our everyday routine, we have lost the idea that when it comes to learning how to read, we must start from the basics. From reading a case study, to reading a letter from a loved one, comprehension, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and oral language are the six essential components of reading. Before a child develops the ability to read, they begin to develop comprehension. Comprehension can be defined as the ability to understand.
To me, the third quarter was a strong, successful bounce-back quarter for in AP Language and Composition. Although, as of now, my grade is around the same as it was during the second quarter and first semester, I feel that my body of work is much stronger than it has been, as those two previous grades were inflated a little from the summative grades. The last time I wrote to you, I identified some flaws in my learning that had developed throughout the semester that I had to correct if I wanted to finish the school year strong. I believe that I’ve fixed those issues for the most part and ready to hit the ground running the final quarter.
Fluent students focus their time and attention on comprehension tasks and make connections between the ideas in the text and their background knowledge, whereas non-fluent students spend greatly their time and attention on decoding particular words (LaBerge & Samuels, 1974). The larger collection of sight words a reader has, the more quickly and fluently a student can read material (Burns, Roe at al.
Bock (2006) uses Labov’s narrative structure and follows Gee in dividing the narratives into stanzas. This is a hybrid of analysis and Bock believes it is very effective and convincing since Labov’s narrative structure allows her to identify the framework of the narrative in order to dig out the notion of evaluation and in the same time, Gee’s structuring the narrative by grouping it into lines, stanzas and parts allows her to highlights the overarching narrative as well as the mini-narrative under the big umbrella of the narrative itself. Apart from that, through the story from Bock, Toolan (2006) believes story has no time constraint; it can be re-opened anytime by the speaker differently with the fact amended or