English-language novels

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational crusade in the United States that fine points what kindergarteners through senior high school students need to know in English and math, by the end of each grade. In 2010 California adopted the Common Core State Standards and chose to align with one of the two multi-state testing consortia funded by the administration. California signed up with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which produced a testing system known as the…

Assignment Heading We now talk about Englishes rather than English and multiliteracies rather than literacies Demonstrate the breadth of your understanding of the diversity of English across time, geography, culture and class and explain why it is essential for teachers in the 21st Century to be aware of ‘multi-literacies’ and language variation. Intro- 150 words Teachers of the 21st Century need to be aware of and up-to-date with the literacy demands required to teach and communicate within…

In the novel Station Eleven Emily Mandel shows a common theme that survival is insufficient. Many Character take different paths of survival, some good and some bad . However to live you must survive, but to enjoy it you need to find something worth living for. Mandel shows how survival is insufficient with the use of The Terminal and The Traveling Symphony. The Traveling Symphony expresses their ability to perform and practice music with their strong family values. The Symphony shows communal…

playwright, was born on 7 Th January, 1928 in Mumbai (Maharashtra).Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but now he was definitely marked out as…

This novel depicts three themes: friendship, heroism and the love of animals. This novel paper consists of different activities that are based on the novel Charlotte’s Web. These activities are used to meet the various learning objectives of multiple subjects for a period of one week. Each activity helps students to critically analyze the novel so that they can have a better understanding the concept of the novel. Targeted Grade…

sold since its release. This novel contains fictional events with parallels to real life in order to draw readers into it and make them care. Not only is it an American classic, but it is also loved by current high school students across the nation. This novel should be kept in the IB English curriculum due to its high readability, important themes, and relevance in today’s society. To Kill A Mockingbird’s high readability assists students’ understandings of the novel and encourages them to…

identify any need for services to those with limited English proficiency (LEP), and develop and implement a system to provide those services so LEP persons can have meaningful access to them.” (Justice, 2000) This executive order only serves as a temporary fix towards helping non-nationals communicate with the Federal government. Government agencies such as the US Census, who collects data on limited…

the language change. Going through specific study cases this work will identify the factors that causes dialect accommodation phenomenon and the effect that this is having on identities of local communities. Analyze geographical factors and social-psychological implication will give us a clearer picture of the dialect continue change that has been occurring in Britain, and it’s consequences. Dialect leveling is an inevitable consequence of contact between two dialects or a standard language…

I think George Orwell made a good point when he said “the English language is in a bad way”. However in this generation it is not politics that is affecting our language; it is social media. Websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have all clearly made an impact on the way we speak and write the English language. Social media has become a quick and easy way to communicate. And while it may have its few benefits, it has definitely had its negative effects on society. Emoticons,…

The Language Barrier has always been a difficult obstacle to overcome in America. Amy Tan coming from two Chinese immigrant parents had a first hand experience of the effects of the language barrier throughout her life. The way people speak the English language is adopted by their family’s adaptation, and these adaptations of English are often perceived as being less intelligent. Tan explains how she would commonly use “broken” English depending on whom she was around. Tan uses logos, pathos,…