Writing circle

“Please circle the Emoji(s) that best show how you feel about reading time today. Then explain why below”. Then they had to explain why. Since of course they ere so excited I told them they could pick up to five different facial expressions. I gave them ten minutes to circle and write a sentence on why they chose them. Some students followed directions were well, and others did not. I organized the data by a yes or no if they were on topic with their faces and if it matched with their…

4 Family Lesson 1: My Mother Circle Time:The teacher reads a book, Are You My Mother?, and it is written by P.D. Eastman. She discusses the importance of mother in a family and in our lives as well. She also talks about the different elements of the story. Listen to the teacher: The teacher makes an anchor chart of mother and baby animals by drawing pictures. She can take pictures and show them to the students. Students listen to the teacher carefully because it helps them to recognize and…

thought was that it was going to be all writing papers. I was very wrong and this was far from true. Walking into this class for the first time, not one part of me expected to learn how to write papers through watching movies or through the in class activities we did. I expected to be given a topic, a length requirement, and a due date. This was not the case at all. For me, watching the movies helped me to realize a better way to connect to the audience I was writing for. The in class…

Looking in between the lines These pieces we read relate to the writing process by getting students to have a better understanding and connecting with the passage. Adler writes that he wants us to read between the lines and look closely at the text we are reading. I used to underline and mark in my book a lot in highschool. I had a lot of success in my English classes when I marked up my books. It is important to think and write like Scudder, because he pays close attention to the…

ran over to the book shelf to pick out a book. You could tell she was happy to do this. At other points during the day she was the only one who was sitting at the writing center when their was not enough room at the centers. She had the option of playing with anything in the room in the mean time, but she chose to to sit at the writing center tracing letters. You could tell she had a love for literacy…

should be embraced rather than pushed away. While acceptance of this is important what is more important is creating a work that far outlasts the author themselves, as stated in the following “Our culture has metamorphosed this idea of narrative, or writing, as something designed to ward off death” (206). In other words, being an author is no longer about the ideas instead it is about getting yourself to be remembered for what you have done rather than the ideas presented. Culture and society…

years, Austen would often get books from her local libraries. She would read gothic novels, poems, classics, and literature about the conduct of women. Austen grew to love gothic novels inspired by Ann Rodcliffe, she began to use the same descriptive writing style in Northanger Abbey. Authors, by the names of Maria Edgeworth and Frances…

Nonverbal communication is very important in conversations between people. It is also very problematic, what can be observed by every person individually, when received message was misunderstood or taken not as the sender wanted it to be decoded. However, if nonverbal conversation is such a problem in regular contact between people, it can be assumed that intercultural communication may be even more problematic. Stella Ting-Toomey (1999: 114) in her book wrote that nonverbal communication in…

Dear Andres Salinas, I found your approach to introducing of your paper pretty interesting since you chose to introduce the topic with personal experience. However, I failed to notice your thesis statement. I could not find your thesis statement and I kind confused. Could it be you chose to discuss the medical benefits of marijuana versus those opioids? Your use of statistical figures is commendable and underscores the informative nature of scientific research papers. However, I noted that…

Pressures” he talks about the college pressures that college students face on a daily basis. Those pressures include economic, parental, self-induced, and financial (210). Zinsser explains that these pressures are normal, but learning how to “break the circle” of these pressures is all up to the student. Children are placed in school at a very early age. Some students enjoy going to school, because it is a place for them to be themselves learn new things; however some kids dread going to school…