English Matters
Monday, 22 April 2013
I write to...
I write to remember significant events that happend in my past. writing for me is a way to reflect on things that i have done or achieved in my life. Without writing i am afraid that some of those significant events may be forgotten, but when i write something down i have it forever so that i can go back in time and enjoy it over and over again. I believe that writing to remember is a good way relieve stress because it takes you to a place that your are normally not able to go.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
True Meaning of Education
For me the true meaning of education is much more than what you learn in the class. True education is about teaching kids to be well rounded citizens in society. Our education systems should be teaching kids to have character, so they can stand up for what they believe in, and know the difference between right and rong.
Martin Luther King jr. said it best "intelligence plus character, that is the true meaning of education."
Martin Luther King jr. said it best "intelligence plus character, that is the true meaning of education."
Blogging
For the past week my english class has been experimenting with blogging. I have to tell you that it is very different from what I thought it was going to be like. Before we started this project, in my head blogging was a way for "girls" could make their journals public. What I realized was that I was very wrong. Blogging is a way to express your opinion on major topics in our world today. It is a way to learn new things and adapt new opinions by reading others blogs. The best part about blogging is if you read a blog that resonates with you, you can acknowledge the writer of that blog by commenting on his blog. Overall, blogging is a very useful tool. I think that every class should blog because it really is beneficial.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9729383/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html
Reply to Article
After
reading this article I was appalled. To think that books would be taken
out of school was shocking. Sure some of the things we read in English I don’t
enjoy as others, such as Shakespeare. But even the text I don’t like, I still
learn new things about myself and enjoy going through the process I just don’t enjoy the storyline. Also I cant imagine when I am older that my kids not reading the books that I read. When I read a book in class I go home and talk to
my sister, my mom or even my dad about it because I know that they read it when they were in school and can help me or give me tips. the stories that are read in English class help me
bond with my family and I hope the same thing happens with my kids. If novels
are taken away then I loose that opportunity and I would be devastated. I also
don’t think that informational text could teach kids important life lessons that novels can. Novels teach me things about myself that nobody else can, they teach about how
I feel in certain situations and what I believe in, informational text cant do
that. The only thing informational texted would do is make kids good test writers. That’s why I believe that Novels need to say and be apart of schools
curriculum.
The Significance of English Class
Significant Books
The Road
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Catcher in the Rye
Mice and Men
The Reader
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
To kill a Mocking Bird
My
experience when reading this book is that it takes you inside of the book it is
very easy to feel like you are back at this time, at the trial with Atticus
even though the setting takes place so long ago.
When I read
this book with my grade 9 English class I learned a lot about right and wrong
that is why I really enjoyed this book it dealt with morals. For a young teen this is a book that can help you make the right decisions; "it can help you take the path less traveled."
What is the Value?
The value
of being exposed to English books and English in general is very important. The reason why it is so important is because books teach us things that
nobody can teach. It teaches us about ourselves, how we feel in certain situations and how we think. Books help us find our deeper meaning and that is why books have significant value.
Why is it a Requirement?
English is
the only course that is a requirement all throughout high school because it is
the only course that is a necessity throughout out your entire life. You can pass by
without math and science but if you cant read or write, you cant do anything, you won't be successful. Pardon my language but you are screwed
you will be unable to socialize with people, work, basically you are unable to
live your life without learning English in school it is a necessity for life.
Senses stimulation
Books stimulate senses. Books help to create your imagination, without imagination life would be boring. The way that Books stimulate you imagination is by the description the author gives during there novel. For example Cormac McCarthy's opening page of his famous novel "The Road." The opening page stimulates your imagination making you picture what post Apocalypse would look like for any survivors.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Thank You Harper Lee
Dear
Harper Lee,
When I met you I was going through a tough
time I had just left my home in Manitoba. I left all my friends, all my family,
to go to school in Ontario. Your book “to Kill a Mockingbird” was the book
chosen to be read in my grade nine English class and that is why this makes it
hard for me to say goodbye. Your book was what got me through that tough time
being 14 having no friends in a strange place, but because of your book I
connected with people that I had never met before just talking about and
discussing your book trying to understand. A couple of the connections I made
are going to last a lifetime like the connection I made with one of my closet
friends Sidney Hutton. It has been four years since I first read your book I
have read probably twenty other books since then but your book is the only book
that means more to me than just words on a paper, I still have the same novel I
annotated and read in grade nine sitting on my nightstand beside my bed and
still from time to time read parts that are special, parts where adversity is
overcome because that is what I overcame in grade nine. For example when
Atticus decides and tells everybody that he is going to represent Tom Robinson.
If I could choose you and your book would be apart of my life forever but its
not, my connection to you makes this difficult but this is that last time you
are able to be apart of my life so I just wanted to say goodbye, you got me
through a time I didn’t think I would get through.
Sincerely,
B. Mezz
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