Hi everyone,
I hope you all got home safely. It really started to rain cats and dogs as soon as our class ended. Literary Terms and Book Reports: In today's class, we spent most of our time on literary terms and reviewing the book report guidelines. We looked at theme, symbols and irony. Theme: This is the message that the author wants to tell the reader. You can ask yourself these questions to help understand the theme:
Remember that the theme is usually never directly stated in the story. You will have to infer (=guess) the theme. Symbols: Symbols usually have to meanings: (1) an obvious (surface) meaning and (2) a deeper (subtle) meaning. Also, the meaning of a symbol can change depending on the context. There are many types of symbols used in literature. For a list of some of these symbols, you can refer to the "Symbols in Literature" handout in the Reading-->Literary Terms section of the website. Irony: Situational irony is when something unexpected happens, and the outcome is usually humorous or tragic. In the case of Kakae the otter, her outcome was tragic! Book Reports: We also spent some time reviewing the essay questions for your book reports. Remember that you will have to use the appropriate structure (e.g. listing, compare/contract, hypothetical) depending on the type of question. When you complete the "literary terms" sections, make sure you give 2-3 specific examples to support your description. Homework:
Blog Question #9: What is the most important thing you have learned this semester in our course? Why? How will this help you next semester (or even after our course)? *Write 8-10 sentences. *Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly. *Submit by Tuesday, July 2 by 6:00pm.
17 Comments
IE3T-Hideyo
6/26/2013 08:37:02 pm
I learned the importance of being interested in daily news and also reading a newspaper. Because in IE3 course, we usually talk about various kinds of topics. Sometimes, I can't talk well because I don't know about some of the topics well. Especially in discussion, I feel the topic is really wide from our daily life to world affairs. To discuss actively, it is important for me to know various things around us. If so, I can recognize my own opinion on each topic and express it on discussion clearly. That is also useful even after our course. When I talk to somebody, I can enjoy the conversation more and more if I have some knowledge on the topic. I would like to broaden my field of vision as much as possible.
Reply
IE3T-Shiori
6/30/2013 11:35:37 am
I learned a lot of importances in this IE3 course but especially keeping on study is the most important for me. Until now, although I studied English I did not it every day. However, this IEcourse has a lot of works in the class and also has a lot of home works. Although it was not easy, I can feel progress of my English ability now.
Reply
IE3T-Shiori
6/30/2013 11:37:28 am
I learned a lot of importances in this IE3 course but especially keeping on study is the most important for me. Until now, although I studied English I did not it every day. However, this IEcourse has a lot of works in the class and also has a lot of home works. Although it was not easy, I can feel progress of my English ability now.
Reply
IE3T-Anna
6/30/2013 03:19:56 pm
The most important thing I learned this semester is, how to write an persuasion essay. Before this, I did not know how to construct a persuasion essay. First, I learned to separate my essay into five paragraphs. In those paragraphs, there were many parts of a paragraph that had to be included. For example, having a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. Second, I learned how to include information that I found. Along with this I learned how to use the MLA format to show where I found the information I included in the essay. These techniques will help me write many other types of essays in other classes and also any other essays I will write in the future.
Reply
IE3T-Yuri W
7/1/2013 01:40:48 am
I learnt a lot of important things in the seminar. For example, persuasion essay. Before I wrote the essay, I didn’t know how to write long essay, especially bibliography. In the bibliography, there are many way to write which depends on where the text from. I haven’t thought that there were so many, so I couldn’t shut my mouth when I saw them first time. I also learnt how to collect the opinion or summary for the discussion.
Reply
IE3T-Miki
7/1/2013 02:55:17 am
The most important thing I learned this semester in IE3 course is to enjoy studying English. I've been poor at speaking English, so I disliked speed discussion at first. However, as I repeated it, I came to be able to enjoy it. Because the theme of every speed discussion is famiriar to us. In persuasion essay and box report, though they were hard for me, I could enjoy thanks to interesting topic and book. To enjoy studying English will help me , no matter how heavy task I may have next semester.
Reply
IE3T-Wakako
7/1/2013 10:34:40 am
At the first time of IE, I was crying whole the way to go to school from my home because there was much new school days stress on me at that time, I really lost what I want to study in Aogaku. However, to enter the IE3T room, I found that it is all girls class! I had gone to girls' school since I was junior high, so that was a first good point for me. Second, I really enjoy all class activities.
Reply
IE3- Natsumi
7/1/2013 01:23:33 pm
The most important thing I have learned is repetition. Because of it, I could make gradual progress in my English skills. I wrote blog comment and journal every week, and I rewrote persuasion essay many times. Also I did discussion reader three times. Now, I could do these things easier than before. This will help me to improve my English more, and to tell me I can do whatever if I repeat to write or to do something next semester. I think it is important things after this course as well. In next semester in this course, I believe that I will learn more important things.
Reply
IE3T-Hitomi
7/1/2013 02:49:16 pm
I have learned many things this semester in IE. All of them are important but it is the most important thing for me to have more interests in personal belongings. Especially, many Japanese do not know about own country well and we should be ashamed of that. I think it is the most important because I would like to communicate with foreigners. There will be the time that I have to introduce Japanese history, culture and so forth when I talk with someone who is from different countries. Having a interest around myself will help me in those situation. Moreover, if there is a task like a persuasion essay and discussion about news next semester, it will help me to insist on my opinion and choose the topic which is good for me. I will be able to learn more valuable things and I am looking forward to that after summer vacation.
Reply
IE3T-Nao
7/1/2013 02:57:37 pm
I learned two things mainly. First, I learned that making a plan is very important. Because I am so lazy I often hadn't finished my homework and I was absent or late for school. Therefore I made troubles to Nicole and classmates. If I aimed to get myself in good condition and did my homework in a well-planed way I can enjoy taking the class more and more. It helps me take the class usefully. Second, Evidence or concrete numbers of statistics is very meaningful to make convincing essay. I would like to write enjoyable essay and enjoy IE3 next semester.
Reply
IE3-T Konomi
7/1/2013 03:32:15 pm
The most important thing that I have learned this semester is to have my opinion strongly. When I wrote an essay, I read a lot of support opinion and dissent. I was opposite to my essay topic, abortion. However,while I were gathering information and reading support opinion to abortion, my opinion was getting displaced. I thought I wanted to support a person who want to get abortion. But because of it, I did not know what I support for. So I learned. The most important thing is to have my opinion strongly. If I have a half-baked opinion, I can not support anyone and anything. So I would like to think what I support for and have clearly opinion after this.
Reply
IE3T-Misaki
7/1/2013 04:29:23 pm
The most important thing that I have learn in IE3 course is studying English hard have connected to improving my English. My English skill is not enough so every assignment is very hard for me. Through this, I learned how to write essay and book reports in this first semester. There are a lot of homeworks in this course, and first, I felt there are very difficult. However, trying to do assignments and talking disucussion I learned a lot of skills of English. Of course, I know I should study English more. I think this is the important step for inproving my English skill. In this next semener, I want to be educated English hard and learn many things.
Reply
IE3T-Asami
7/1/2013 04:29:34 pm
I could learn a lot of great things in this semester. The most important skill I got is doing my homework in earnest every week without laziness. Also I made great progress with my English ability and personality from keeping a strict deadline to submit. I sometimes felt so hard. But I knew how important trying such difficult tasks is. It means perseverance for studying hard gives the power to get the good English ability. I will be able to make more efforts to study English without giving up for any hard works in next semester. So I am looking forward to having IE class and studying more difficult skills after the summer vacation too.
Reply
IE3T-Eriko
7/1/2013 04:48:19 pm
What I learned in this cource is that the importance of giving my opinion logically. I found it in writing a persuasion essay. It was difficult to be logically but I felt it was very important. In the essay, I had to insist strongly my position. If my opinion and the supporting reasons were wrong or did not connect logically, I could not persuade people who were in opposite position. That was the same in the discussion. In the discussion, it was more difficult for me to speak logically, because I was not good at discussing. The skill I learned in this class will be helpful in the next discussion and writing something like the essay if I have a chance to write in the next semester.
Reply
IE3T-Chika
7/1/2013 04:48:43 pm
I have learned so many things in this course. Especially I think next two things are most important. First, speaking English in class, not afraid of mistakes. In my junior college, I couldn't state my opinion in class because it was ashamed for me speaking English in front of my classmates, and I thought that making mistakes was ashamed. In IE class, we have to speak only English in classroom, so I'm get accustomed to speak English for a couple of months. As a result, I don't feel ashamed to talk with classmates in English, and I became to think it's no wonder that I make mistakes. Second, I learned discussion skills. Through three times of discussion leader, I learned how to gesture, eyecontact, and controll the discussion. I think it helps me in next semester and other class, even after I get started to work.
Reply
IE3-T Madoka
7/1/2013 05:41:23 pm
The most important thing which I have learned this semester is about a persuasion essay. My teacher taught me how to write it in detail. It was the first time to write it, but thanks to her help I think I could write a good essay. In addition, peer editing task is good experience. I learned editing sentences which my friend wrote is very difficult. I really realized that I don't have enough English ability. Based on these, I want to participate in the class of next semester. This revelation must be assistance for me. Thorough the next semester, I would like to improve my English ability.
Reply
Yuri K
7/1/2013 06:23:19 pm
I have learned a lot in this class. The most important thing I have learned is, speaking skill and writing skill. In this class, we have to speak in English all the time. Also we have to discuss about discussion every week. First these were very difficult for me, but doing these work every week, I felt my speaking skill is improving. The most difficult work for me in this class was writing essay. I never wrote this long writing before, so it was painful work. However it improved my writing skill as I felt it painful. I hope these skills I got in this semester will help next semester.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Categories
All
|