Chapter 1 starts with describing how much the U.S has changed when it comes to teaching students that don’t speak English as their first language. It gives three setting: first language classrooms, bilingual classrooms and english-language classrooms. First language is where is where all interactions is in the primary language of the students, bilingual is a classroom taught in both english and the student(s) main language while english-language classrooms are classrooms in all English. For language is to learned a child has to understand/know words, sounds, grammar, discourse and pragmatics of the lanuage. The chapter later gets into how children can quickly begin to understand 2 languages if exposed early.
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” -Patrick Rothfuss.
As kids, we are made to believe that making mistakes is a heinous crime. We are taught that in the case of an error, we should go to every length necessary to conceal both our misstep and previous case of ignorance. For the longest time, I believed this lie and lived in a bubble terrified of making even the simplest mistake or showing the slightest bit of uncertainty. It wasn't until I read the novel, Fahrenheit 451, that I came to realize making mistakes is one of the best things any person can do. One specific quote from the novel highlights the importance of embracing ignorance and reads, "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
He said on page 692 “But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong.” This taught us that it's okay to be wrong and that it's better to say you were wrong than to keep following the wrong path. He also says “And repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” This also shows that repair the bad things you've done is better than leaving them and saying you were never wrong.
1 - Public Speaking Public speaking is a weakness of mine and is a skill I should improve because it will
Task 1 This piece of paper states the purpose of the text assumed. The task 1 is a story about a woman called Catherine Morland who has supposed that she was born to be hero. The story tells about the stupidity of the girl as the story aims to entertain its respective readers. The story is in the past tense and is written in third person narration.
On the first day of B Block AP Language, the class read a quote from Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”, which opened with the claim that one must neither read to “contradict” nor to “believe”, and instead, one must read “to weigh and consider”. Each synthesis essay is designed to help students develop their own individual position on an issue after weighing and considering a myriad of texts. In every prompt, an identical set of directions cautions the student against “merely summarizing the sources” as they are to be used to support the student’s argument. The introduction that follows is always about different subjects, but each introduction has no position on its subject.
I deserve ninety points out of the three hundred and sixty points for our propaganda group project in AP Language and Composition. The amount of time and effort I put into the assignment was equivalent to my group members Graceyn, Dallas and Caitlin. There were six bullet points listing requirements on a handout saying what needed to be included in the final product. Each member of the group picked two requirements, and once a requirement had two occupants, it was no longer up for grabs. Therefore, the fraction of work I completed was the same as everyone else in my group.
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.
IF you do not make mistakes, and then fix them after you have made the mistakes, then in the future you will never know how to fix them when you make them again, but if you make the same mistake twice it
When I asked my upperclassmen friends last year about their opinions on AP Language, these were the responses I got: “AP Language will be the death of you”, “Whatever you do in your junior year, don’t take Lang”, “It’s not worth it”, “My hardest class is AP Language”. I was told all the horror stories of annotations, timed writes, and portfolios last year as I was trying to decide if I should enroll in AP Language and Composition. However, I decided to challenge myself and push myself out of my comfort zone, so I nervously enrolled for the class in January of 2017. This semester I learned that while this class was indeed a challenging course, it has pushed me to improve not only my writing skills, but also my work ethic.
Language takes an important role in human life, without language people cannot communicate to others. Everyone in the world absolutely use language in their life, either written or spoken. As written by Crystal and Robins, the meaning of language is a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves (Britannica.com). Language is divided into two, literal and non-literal. (McGraw-Hill School Education Group) asserts that the meaning of literal language is “language that means the literal, or dictionary, meaning of a word or phrase,” while the meaning of non-literal language is “language that goes beyond the dictionary meaning
3.Choose one aspect of your presentation and tell me how you will work to improve it for your next presentation. Be concrete. Offer suggestions that you will use for improvement. I always get anxious before giving any speech or presentation. I may not maintain eye contact with the audience to cop up with my anxiety.
Throughout my high school career, I have given verbal presentations before, however I tend to stutter on my own words, lose my place in a presentation due to mixing up my note cards, and I have non-verbal tics that I do repeatedly throughout my presentation. For this year, I hope to gain more experience in public speaking. Academic goal #2: Throughout my junior year, I will work on using mathematical problem-solving skills to evaluate quantitative information and arguments.
Positive thinking is also one way a person can experience the feelings of positive emotions such as joy, happiness, excitement. It may also put a smile on our faces and a bounce in our step, and make us look forward to things more. Whether one has positive thoughts or negative thoughts, our minds are occupied with thoughts and depending on some factors, for some, positive thinking occurs more often than for others. But the great thing is that positive thinking is a skill that can be taught, learned, practiced and mastered such as you would be taught sports, practice music, learn a new language or master a subject.
