Kay-Dee is playing a literacy game at the Shine Centre, identifying pictures and sounding out words like "pot". She attends the Shine Centre to improve her reading and writing skills in order to become a doctor. Kay-Dee enjoys the Shine Centre because it helps her gain confidence in her literacy abilities.
This is a project designed by Eya Jbali, a student of Third Arts. She was asked to produce a summary, using ICT, of the extracts of the gift of magi, by O.Henry. This is a form of recognition to publish her project and inspire her peers to design creative projects.By the way, all the pictures were drawn by Eya.Who said literature can't be inspirational?
G-teenzine is a product of Journalism Project, a subject in the frame curriculum of Faculty of Foreign languages, Thai Nguyen University. The magazine contains some images from tin.vn
This is a project designed by Eya Jbali, a student of Third Arts. She was asked to produce a summary, using ICT, of the extracts of the gift of magi, by O.Henry. This is a form of recognition to publish her project and inspire her peers to design creative projects.By the way, all the pictures were drawn by Eya.Who said literature can't be inspirational?
G-teenzine is a product of Journalism Project, a subject in the frame curriculum of Faculty of Foreign languages, Thai Nguyen University. The magazine contains some images from tin.vn
Questions for Responding to Fiction in English 2328Use these q.docxcatheryncouper
Questions for Responding to Fiction in English 2328
Use these questions below to guide you as you complete your reading responses for short stories (fiction). I suggest that you choose only a few questions to answer in your response--but make the response a paragraph--don't number your responses. You will probably notice that some of the questions are similar and that some of the responses may overlap--that's fine. Your response should reflect your own thoughts and analysis of the story. Your response to each story should be at least 200 words (but will probably be longer) and should show that you have read the story carefully. You should mention the names of characters, details from the story that support your response, incidents in the story that affect your reading of it, etc. You must use quotations from the stories in your responses.
1. What did you like about the story? What did you dislike? Why?
2. Who is your favorite character? Is he or she like you in any way? Would you make the same decisions (or react in the same ways) in the same situations as this character? Why or why not? Which characters remind you of people you know?
3. What did you learn about American history, society, art, literature, philosophy, science (etc.) from this story? What research might you do to help you understand the story better?
4. What did you learn about life from the story?
5. In what ways do you identify with the story?
6. How would you describe the writer's style or voice? Style includes use of irony, symbolism, figurative language, point of view, etc.
Here's an interesting checklist of literary style that you might find helpful: Checklist: Elements of Literary Style
7. What are your favorite sentences, passages, words, etc. from the story? Explain your choice.
8. What would you tell a friend about this story?
9. Who would you recommend this story to and why?
10. What value does this story have for you?
11. What connections do you find between the life of the author and his or her work?
12. What questions did you have after you finished the story?
13. What words did you look up?
1st story: Two Kinds by Amy Tan
My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. "Of course, you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. "You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky." America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls.
But she never looked back with regret. Things could get better in so many ways.
We didn't immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese
Shirley Temple ...
1. Kay-Dee is sitting on a small red stool
in the Shine Centre. Her hair is pulled
over to one side of her head in a tight
braid. At the end of the braid is a dark
green bow.
This Grade Three, eight-year-old is
playing a literacy game with her
learning partner, Lynne. Lynne holds
up a card with a picture on it.
“That is a pot,” says Kay-Dee.
She looks down at the game board in
front of her to see if she has that same
picture. She does. She takes the card
and covers the picture on her board.
Without having to be asked, Kay-Dee then sounds out the three-letter word, “P-O-T.”
Kay-Dee used to go to school in Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa’s fourth largest township,
but she did not like her teacher there.
“She had a very thin stick,” says Kay-Dee, holding her index finger and thumb close
together, in front of her eye to make her point. “And she would hit us with it.”
This is Kay-Dee’s first year at Observatory Junior School and she loves her new
teacher.
“She likes to talk a lot and she isn’t rude like my old teacher,” says Kay-Dee.
Kay-Dee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. “In order to be a doctor, I must be
able to read the names of the people who come to see me, and that is why I come to
the Shine Centre.”
“Now, let’s have a go at writing this,” says Lynne, pointing at the picture of the pot.
Kay-Dee picks up her pencil but before she writes anything, she puts it back down. She
sounds the word out again and this time she claps as she sounds, “P-O-T.” Lynne claps
with her. Then Kay-Dee writes down “pot.”
Next Kay-Dee says a sentence about the pot. “Last night I cooked macaroni and
cheese in a pot.”
“Very good,” says Lynne, “you must give me the recipe!”
Kay-Dee— Shine Child
Cherry Gammelin
2. Soon Kay-Dee will only come to the Shine Centre when she wants to visit. She is
moving quickly through the programme. She has conviction in her voice and she is
building self-confidence.
“I like the Shine Centre because I can just pick up any book and read it,” Kay-Dee says,
with a matter-of-fact attitude. “I feel better when I can read and write.”
Kay-Dee— Shine Child
Cherry Gammelin