Changes to Old English vocabulary

They can get by in a foreign land by speaking only English. Perhaps to some extent this may be true, but only because the native speaker either has taken the time, effort and money to learn English or they are really good at charades. But what happens if you need to go to the doctor, to the bank, or to the pharmacy, to the police or simply need to buy gas and don’t know how…

confusing or a paragraph that I did not understand. Then, Ville would take a turn using the strategies that I modeled as I was reading. After completing the reading, we discussed the chapters and what we liked about them and what we wish we could change if we were the authors. Then, I guided him through his Socratic Seminar worksheet to complete the assigned homework, which was creating questions that he would ask his group mates the following day. I provided Ville with a variety of sentence…

Cockney slang in the society of England is the slang that some words are easy to be understood directly. It is easy to know and understand words of cockney slang if we used slang dictionary and Standard English dictionary. There are two kinds of ordinary slang. The first is the cockney slang used by the educated and middle class people. The second is the cockney slang used by the semi literature and quite literature people. Here are some examples of Cockney…

Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media company, released their video game Fallout 4 in November 2015 resulting in over $750 million of sales within days of its release (Bethesda Softworks, 2015). The title is the latest installment of their successful anthology that explores an alternate reality where humans commercialized nuclear technology ushering in an atomic age. The player, cryogenically frozen in a fallout shelter as bombs drop on the United States, awakens 200 years later to a…

things that make us human. To some, it is the fundamental essence of living. However, many believe that schools today are killing that part of us. It’s something we have all heard, young or old, that education at it’s current state, wherever that may be, needs reform. Throughout countless reforms and changes, the United States has certainly incorporated creativity into schools, but they haven’t exactly done so successfully. At the two high schools I have been at, I have been at, I have seen the…

Winston, 1984’s main protagonist, works daily in the Ministry of Truth. He’s a propaganda officer who alters records of past events so that they match party’s version of the event. Just like that, Big Brother can change all records of an event to promote his party even further. They contort their downfalls as a party into successes and blare them across telescreens. People of Oceania live in constant fear of Big Brother. Boisterous signs let them know “BIG BROTHER…

She taught in a free-wheeling manner, totally concentrated on the subject one minute, then deciding to change, using the words: ‘That’s boring. Let’s do something else’” (Horosko, 2002) Martha Graham decided an autonomous route was best suited for her. She strayed away by creating her own technique focusing primarily on the opposition of contraction and…

But, it is not healthy for young children to start testing at an early age. Early childhood professionals are against giving standardized testing to children under 9 years old (Kohn). They mentally cannot handle taking a test at that young of an age. Young children’s minds are being stretched just so they can take a test. The types of tests that children are getting are not easy visual tests. Children are being given test…

Writing was now my main focus of literacy and seemed difficult for me and did not come with ease. Writing was never my strong suit and quite honest it still isn’t. With many hours of writing and re-writing papers for English classes, my writing slowly started to improve. Knowing now how much writing means and how much it’s used every day, I wish I would have worked harder and would not have procrastinated on my essays throughout high school. By not paying attention in…

Reporting student achievement is a current hotbed of controversy in education. From how to report it, when, how often, who to report it to, and the negative and positive aspects of reporting it. It is safe to say that proponents of both sides feel strong about their opinion. Lefkowits and Miller (2005) contend that “current forms of accountability that focuses on reporting test scores on individual content areas for groups of students at particular grade levels does not appear to have the same…