Reading may seem like an run of the mill thing where you laugh at the funny jokes, glare into the abyss when the text possess a provocative quote. To Mike Bunn the author of “How to Read Like A Writer,” has a different interpretation of what reading should be. Mike Bunn emphasizes that reading should be more than just context, he argues that you need to question the authors’ choice of words, literary devices, sentence placement, in order to be able to become better readers and writers ourselfs. He presents it to the audience in a manner that is very interactive. He begins by explaining what he means to “Read Like a Writer”(Bunn, How to Read Like A Writer), followed by questions that should be asked about the text and writing style, and techniques that should be done to become a more proficient writer.
Adonay has made his best effort to focus at his work in the classroom. His reading has slow progress throughout the year. Although, he reads most-text specific vocabulary, he still needs to decode unfamiliar words using appropriate strategies like blending and segmentation. It is also beneficial to develop his self-correction strategy by attending to meaning while he reads a text. Adonay finds challenging to interpret a text he reads as he struggles to access independently some additional meanings from a text.
The Synopsis that I gathered from Haas and Flowers’ “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” was none the less another interesting read. Experienced readers might come to understand that both reading and writing can be “context-rich, situational, and have constructive acts”. Though a large number of students may find reading and writing more or less to be an exchange of valued or non-valued information. Continuing on, multiple studies that have been conducted have also found that on average 77 percent of experienced readers tend to use content strategies to expand their knowledge of the reading. These strategies usually include vigorous annotations of the reading/writing that have been shown to improve the readers/writers’ comprehension of the material.
When students are guided to infer continuously as Reading, they will be able to think more deeply when they read independently. Standard: Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion. SL.3.1d Before I began reading
It is three in the morning and he is working on an essay that he has been writing for the past four days now. Thomas feels his paper is not good because he compared to one of his buddies and his friends was a lot better and claimed Thomas “wrote weird.” He threw away his paper but then realized he could just revise it and make the perfect essay. He began to make notes on the paper to then be able to rewrite and create a better essay. His main fault is that he speaks and writes like an old person, using long rambling sentences that are boring.
Conflict Literary Analysis: The Outsiders and It's a Wonderful Life In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and the movie It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra, both characters, Darry Curtis and George Bailey, face an external conflict because of the fact that they are both always sacrificing for family. In the film It's a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, the main character, George Bailey, faces many internal struggles that come from him sacrificing so much for his family. Starting off with George Bailey's biggest sacrifice, saving his young brother Harry's life that day.
The house in “Masque of the Red Death” shows the horrific nature of life and shows the progression of life to death as one makes their way through the house. However, there are key components of the house that are described in detail which help to exemplify their significance and show how they correlate to the different stages of one’s life. Throughout the story, “Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, the vivid color imagery helps to symbolize the Gothic nature of the house and the horrors associated with the course of life. One of the most vividly described elements in the story is the ebony clock. Ebony is a type of dark and sleek wood, and the clock is always described as the “ebony clock” reiterating the idea that it is a dark
In Chapter One of Thomas Cooley’s The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition, the audience was exposed to several strategies recommended for reading pieces of literature. These strategies were divided into three segments: Previewing the Text, Reading Closely and Critically, and Responding to What You Read. Each segment contained a list of either advice or questions the reader could heed to while analyzing their given text. Later, the chapter exposed the audience to the four traditional types of writing utilized.
Important Strategies for Reading As the person reading the first thing that it is done is find a perspective that chooses the way a person is going to react and judge an author’s story. A perspective, which varies acutely on the person, since people origin from many different backgrounds, and experiences. Margared Atwood, explains, and describes several strategies in several detail in order to provide the reader with strategies that would hopefully apply improvement. One of those strategies mentioned by Margared Atwood is Interpretation, which is what decides what people focus on when reading a story or an article of their choice.
This application of the reading process should allow the reader to “deep read” when necessary, letting the information be absorbed entirely and
Practice active listening. Engage in conversation. Quote the text (your typed notes and the novel are your “texts”).
Regardless of the format - I always try to take notes, ask questions, and reflect on what I read to strengthen my understanding and analysis.
Catch-22 is an American literary classic, which delves deeply into the many diverse characters stationed at a fictional island, Pianosa, during the Second World War. This novel shows the side of war which is overlooked in almost every other book or movie; instead of highlighting the action of war, it shows us detailed personalities, and sub-plots in a humorous way as well as questioning human philosophy and at the same time, showing the stupidity of war. The author of Catch-22 is Joseph Heller who served in the U.S Air force during WWII uses his personal experiences to create a story that draws criticism towards war and the U.S military in general. The story follows the main character of Captain Yossarian who is a paranoid bomber in the 256th
As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”
Paris provides a vivid understanding as to why students misbehave in the school house. Paris brings up the idea of performance of resistance. Performance of resistance views student misbehavior through a critical lens. The critical analysis performance of resistance behavior is in complete response to the negative gaze, the degrading treatment, and the hurtful assumptions many youth of color receive from pro-banking model teachers. This idea sheds light on one of the many frustrations teachers generally express when teaching students of color.
