It’s A Hard Knock Life “If you're going through hell, keep going!” Winston Churchill. This quote says a lot about the article “I’m Your Teacher, Not Your Internet-Service Provider” by author Ellen Laird. Laird is a teacher who works both online and also in the classroom. She tells us how the two experiences differ and why her online experience has been downloaded the wrong class all of a sudden. Lairds tone seems to change from the beginning to the end of the story.at first she lets us know that she loved her online class.
In class we watched Schoolhouse Rock and I learned everything really quickly. We did lots of worksheets and discussed nouns and verbs. Every Friday we would have a quiz on what we learned throughout the week and at the end of the month we have a test. This wasn’t my favorite subject but it was ok. Nothing exciting ever happened.
OF MICE AND MEN. Throughout my years of high school, I read several good and bad books. One day we were told to read “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck and I thought the book overall was one of the best books I have read in a while. Like all great books, they usually turn into a movie. Director Gary Sinese was thrilled to read such a book and wanted to make a movie about Of Mice And Men, but Gary Sinese had a different prospective and wanted to create an idea of his own which made viewers had different thought and feelings between the movie and the book.
Even thou at the time I didn’t know they were called Nursery Rhymes until I began learning more about it in my school. Having my parents read to me at a very young age somewhat jumpstarted my brain and led me to learn lots of words and phrases as a kid. Being that they read to me every night, I always was listening and hearing words and even sometimes having an image to relate words to. I believe that the reading that was done for me every night before I went to bed was a large part of my learning to read. At this age, it was almost as if I’d rather not see the words, but just listen to them and look at all the pictures.
It was the first book she had came across that interest her and that dealt with other children that were her age. This impacted her life majorly because she then went on to reading another booked called The Swiss Twins which mainly inspired her to read more books and eventually read for children in the library. It really made a positive turn in her life when she went to earning a BA in librarianship from the university of Washington Seattle. Then she got a job as a children’s librarian in Yakima; Washington, where she told stories to many children and out what stories and books they enjoyed reading
“The Lottery” is a great example for this as well. Readers begin the story, and get caught up in trying to find out what the lottery is all about, and who will win it. In a sense, it has an ambiguous ending, because the lottery turns out to be the exact opposite of what you would expect. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” builds up suspense by describing in great detail the main character, Scrooge, and his negative views of the Christmas season, and pushes readers to read on and find out if Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas. Just as great stories must include suspense, they have to be able to evoke some emotion in the
Ever since I can remember I have loved books and reading, I have always spent my summers and any other free time I have curled up with a good book. Books have a way of taking you away from reality and pulling you into the lives of the characters sometimes (usually) making our world and lives seem incredibly drab in comparison. I have gone through many phases with books, gradually having a harder and harder time finding a new read from the public library. By the time I was 11, I had made it through all of “The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes” novels, all the “Dear Diary” historical fiction novels, the entire “Series of Unfortunate Events” series, every single novel ever written by “Beverly Cleary” (my most favourite author at the time) and every one of “The Little House on the Prairie” novels, I had absolutely no idea what to read next or
I went home to get dressed up to imppress and even bought a gift only to find out when I got there that it wasn’t his birthday and he just played a prank on me, to this day that is the most embarrasing moment in my life and the greatest prank ever played on me. If I have free time I usually read a good book it makes me feel like I am on an adventure to a totally different world and makes me forget reality in a bit. I also play basketball with my cousins and sort of excel in table tennis, modesty aside. I recently re-discovered biking and I enjoyed it immensely. See, I have a pretty active life style.
In class we all as a whole had to read, "The Lord of the Flies", "The Catcher in the Rye", and "Macbeth". All of these books were amazing to read but when it came to writing the essays for them, I believe that my favorite and most interesting was "The Lord of the Flies", which is one of my favorite books to this day. "The Lord of the Flies" had such a brilliant story line and it kept me interested as I read on. Junior year was a big year for writing essays because of the two regents that were required that year for us. The regents for junior year was, the English Regents and the U.S. History regents.
* They worked together in harmony for several years, "seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated" (9.100). * Then, Slytherin and the other founders fell into a serious argument. * The other founders felt that the school should be open to all children who showed magical talent. * Yet Slytherin wanted to limit Hogwarts enrollment to students from magical families. * He didn't want any Muggle-born students at Hogwarts.