Linggo, Oktubre 16, 2011

Reaction on the Class Discussion

      Our time schedule for the subject English 80 is MTh:9:00-10:30. That’s the best time for me to start a class but as what I have seen, in this period, mostly of our classmates arrived late and mostly absent. I can suggest that maybe next time our professor will show a sort of strictness sometimes (if only needed).


From this subject, I have learned one strategy with very long abbreviation which I thought from the beginning that the letters has no corresponding meaning. Who would think that that abbreviation “OPQRTSU” means Overview, Planning for purpose, Questions, Reading, Summarizing, Testing and Understanding? So cool! And this is one of the strategies to understand to understand well the texts that we are going to read. 




(Its my demonstration Day!!!ahehehe)

Reaction on the Spelling Booklet


      Regarding on the spelling booklet, I have learned hoe to again manage my time because if I don’t know how to manage it maybe until now I was not able to answer it.

Reactions on doing the Literature Circle

      Upon doing the literature circle with my group mates, I have understood the importance of time management. I have learned on how to wait for my turn to read the book and I have learned how to be more open-minded in terms of our answers.

But sad to say that sometimes I was not able to listen to properly to some of our discussions because some of my group mates used to irritate me which I really don’t like. Some were simply smiling and even laughing (I dint know the reasons).

Maybe next time, its better to have 2-3 members only so that the result of the literature circle would be more organized and the results would be easy to collect.

LEARNING PLAN in GRADE II



I-Objectives: At the end of the lesson, at least 75% of the students should be able to:
       1.Read closely the big book in order to identify the adjectives used in the story.
       2.Identify the characters in the story with the information’s provided in the big book.
       3.Describe the characters.

II-Subject Matter: “The Turtle and the Carabao”
       Reference: www.educmaterials.com
       Materials: big book, chalk, black board

III-Procedure
      A.Start the class with a prayer.
      B.Check the attendance.
     C.Ask the pupils what they have learned about the past lesson.
     D.Motivation: Ask the pupils about the people they like/love and why they
         like/love them.
     E.Presentation of the lesson.
       
         1.Pre-reading
                  a.Group the students into 5.
                  b.Present to them the story entitled “The Turtle and the Carabao”.
                  c.Using the front page of the big book (pictures of the turtle and the
                     carabao), allow the pupils to give at least 5 descriptions about the
                     characters.

       2.Reading the story.
                a.The teacher will do first the reading followed by the students.(Present the
                   story: wwweducmaterials.com)

        3.Post reading
                a.In the same group, ask them to check the descriptions they wrote about the
                   characters before reading the story and put a check (/) them if the
                   descriptions are found in the story.
               b.Using the chart below, describe the characters (the information’s should be
                  from the big book).


                               -clumsy
                               -small
TURTLE _______ -so slow moving
                              -intelligent
                              -fragile


                                   -cried aloud
                                   -big
                                  -strong
CARABAO _______ -proud
                                   -happy
                                   -runs fast

F.Evaluation and Closure
           1.Draw the characters based on the description provided from the big book. At
              least one description (happy, sad, proud, small, big, etc.)

G.Assignment
          1.Read the story “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”.

Linggo, Oktubre 9, 2011

Literature Circle


First Novel - “Nerve Damage” by Peter Abrahams
           
         Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Discussion Director           






Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well-known sculptor in the art world. His newest piece, a magnificent creation he calls Delia, has just been finished, a sign that he's found a little closure at last.

Then Roy gets some news of the grimmest kind. It's the kind of news that forces thoughts in unexpected directions, such as the contents of one's obituary. Roy and his lawyer, a close friend, find themselves wondering whether Roy's obituary will mention a big goal he scored in college hockey. Roy's friend suggests that they could probably find out. With some help, they hack into the morgue files of the New York Times. There's no mention of the goal, but something else about his obituary bothers Roy. According to the New York Times, his wife was working for the United Nations when she died—not the think tank ....
          
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Second Novel - "The Time Capsule" by Lurlene McDaniel


 Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Discussion Director 



     In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teachers time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to “help people” and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adams leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins family. Their mother and father are always workingnot only dont they have time for Alexis and Adam, they dont have time for each other. Alexis cant even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World.

     No one is prepared when Adam gets sick again, but this time Alexis is not alone. Adams illness reunites the family. And Alexis discovers that the time capsule predictions werent so far off the mark.

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Third novel - "The Fourth Letter" by Alison Quinn

Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Vocabulary Enricher







A stranger in a strange land...

A promise made to her dying father brought Nicole Lord from her home in Paris, France, to the remote hills of Vermont. There, she tried to make peace with her father's mother--an embittered, eccentric old woman who was convinced her artist son had deserted her years earlier.

Nicole was met with rejection and coldness, not only from her grandmother but also from the housekeeper, Delia, and her son, Mark. Nicole's only comfort was the suave and sophisticated doctor, Alan, who treated her grandmother.

Though Mark remained remote and secretive, Nicole found herself drawn to him. But Nicole's life was in jeopardy and her relationship with Mark threatened...unless the truth that lay hidden in a sealed letter was revealed...

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Fourth Novel - "AGATHA"






Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family.

Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha Christie never attended school. She became adept at creating games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and, later in life, to writing.

In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920, five years later.

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" gave the world the inimitable Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer who was to become one of the most enduring characters in all of fiction. With his waxed mustache and his "little grey cells," he was "meticulous, a tidy little man, always neat and orderly, with a slight flavor of absurdity about him." (The New Bedside Christie Companion...)
  
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