Aesop's Fables

The rhetorical devices tone and parallelism are used in both the memoir, Funny In Farsi, by Firoozeh Dumas, and the graphic novel, American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang in order to entertain readers and develop the over-arching theme of self-acceptance. Dumas uses colloquial and comic tones in Funny In Farsi in order to keep readers engaged and understate the impact of the hardships she faced on her road to self-acceptance. In the chapter “I Ran and I Ran and I Ran”, Dumas tells the story of…

For the first six years of my life, I had almost never read; not to my parents or even to myself. It wasn’t that I was unable to—I had to learned to read at a young age, and I did so fairly well—but the act of sitting for hours and flipping page after page after page. It seemed so monotonous. Then I entered first grade, where reading was mandatory. Within the first week of the school year, each student was given a small booklet of passages. Every day someone was called to the teacher’s desk…

their parents. He believed that children were capable of reason, and that parents who set a fine example would raise fine children. He instructs parents on educating their children using “entertaining” but “rewarding” stories, such as those in Aesop’s Fables (5). Following his groundbreaking publication, little by little, pedagogical stories for a child-specific audience were printed. John Newbery,…

Speaking and Listening – Elizabeth has shown she has good speaking and listening skills this year. She loves show and tell and takes great pride in presenting to the class items that she has bought in from home. When presenting, Elizabeth articulates well and holds good eye contact with her audience. During carpet sessions, she listens well most of the time but can occasionally become distracted by what others are doing around her. When taking part in School performances, Elizabeth is more…

Greek Famous People Ancient Greece influenced the modern world in many ways. Ancient Greece had some of the best minds ever. A lot of the scientific information we know today came from ancient Greece like our solar system revolves around the Sun, and the Earth is round. There also was a great deal of philosophers from ancient Greece that continue to influence the world thousands of years after their death. Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of…

SETTING: Pip is just settling into London for the first time, and he takes into notice how miserable London is.The setting here we see is changing from Pip’s old, poor town in the marshes to a more upscale city, and it was not what he was expecting. This seems to correlate with modern day situations, for example, New York City. Supposedly it’s a place you have to visit to see the square, but it’s just really dirty and not that impressive. CHARACTERIZATION: Here we see Pip meeting Mr. Jaggers…

conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. As an example of an explicit maxim, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare,…

In both Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and the anthology of poetry written by Carol Ann Duffy, many strong feelings about partners are presented. In both pieces of literature, traditional preconceptions are challenged throughout and I am going to explore some of the different ways that this is achieved. At the beginning of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are depicted by Shakespeare as in a loving relationship “my greatest partner of greatness”. The use of the word “partner” suggests fairness and…

Chapter five of Kauchak and Eggen’s Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional, discussed four dominant philosophies that teachers tend to fall under in a classroom setting. Each philosophy has its own learning theory with different views on how teaching should be and how children should attain learning skills for life. The first one is perennialism, where it is believed children should be taught essential material that has been proven effective over time, to provide a solid foundation…

Angel Munera Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United Sates of America in 1861. Abraham Lincoln was the son of a Kentucky Frontiersman. Growing up, Lincoln struggled to earn a living and education. Abraham Lincoln was born on feb.12, 1809, in Hodgenville Kentucky and his parents were both born in Virginia into ordinary families. Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died in 1818, when she drank some tainted milk with a…