Importance of studying Shakespeare Simply stated, students should study Shakespeare’s works in school because of the incredible value within them. In addition to exposing students to a large amount of literary techniques, Shakespeare's plays challenge the student with difficult language and style, express a profound knowledge of human behavior and offer insight into the world around us. William Shakespeare is recognized by much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. The intricate meanings, extensive vocabulary, and powerful imagery contained within his works demonstrate the exceptional story telling ability of this playwright. To begin with, analyzing Hamlet's motivations, or lack of motivations, ends up being pretty easy for students in the long run because of the relevance of Hamlet's struggle as the dutiful son.
In general, people don’t like talking about their infanthood, because it is not easy to discuss it with an unknown person. If for some reason he or she has to do it, they will choose to use simple and fun words as Vowell did. She used humor; imagery and contrast as techniques to skillfully create a strong, convincing essay. The author is able to draw the reader in by her vast use of imagery. It is easy for me as reader to put myself in her place.
Firstly, Tolkien creates a realistic fantasy world that allows the readers to escape from their everyday lives. Tolkien also uses the protagonist, Bilbo, to exemplify the physiological development of people from childhood to adulthood. Through these strategies Tolkien makes it evident that The Hobbit was not written purely for the pleasure of children, but rather a more complex metaphor within the “simple” text. The overlying text of the Hobbit gives many readers the idea that it is a simplistic novel because of the way Tolkien incorporates obvious lessons on manners and edict that are geared toward children. Tolkien spreads these lessons through the actions of the heroic, good characters of the novel because he believes that a child would more likely emulate the actions of characters they look up to.
Additionally, due to the popularity of the book it was evident that I would not have a difficult time finding a significant amount of literary criticism on both the author and the novel. Along with all the reasons above I felt that the issues and themes discussed and portrayed in the novel would be very easy for the average grade 12 english student to comprehend during the remaining parts of my independent study assignment. Conclusively, I chose to read this book because of its relevance in today’s society, the themes, popularity and mainly the recommendation by my teacher. He is aware that my
The Ugly Duckling The universal themes of the children’s fable entitled “The Ugly Duckling” are that you should never give up and to try as hard as you possibly can if you are to succeed in life. The author of the text has utilized many techniques to represent these universal ideas. These include the use of a children’s story fable genre, the use of anthropomorphism, contrast and symbolism as a means of highlighting the major themes. The universal themes are designed to engage young impressionable children. The children’s story fable genre is a high appropriate style for the composer to utilise as it uses “Once upon a time…and…The End” structure indicating the strong didactic nature of its content.
Billy is seventeen; People in general like to read about others with whom they share a common trait. Adults don't usually enjoy fairy stories about five-year-olds finding magic wellies but younger people I know have been known to love them. The same applies for teenagers - they enjoy stories aimed at their own age. It is evident from the story that Billy is mature, sociable, handsome and generally a likable person. There are several suggestions in the paragraph to back this up.
What Stephen King does and with Lord of the Flies imparticular is put the reader in those kids’ shoes. It helps that you read it as a kid the same age as them. The book does an amazing job really describing the characters and their environment; examples like Ralph is “fair” and “attractive” while Jack is “tall, thin, and bony...his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was...freckled, and ugly without silliness.” These descriptive words do an amazing job at giving you a visual to build off in your mind as you read through. This book is also much deeper than just words; symbols are produced throughout this book giving it a greater meaning and depth.
Upon reading, Affirming Diversity by Sonia Nieto and "Teaching the Way Children Learn" by Beverley Falk not only did I understand these authors clearly, but I absolutely agree with their ideas. There are many occassions where I read arcticles written by very smart people and I feel as if they have to show off their intellect by adding complex words into their readings as if a better more simplistic synonym for the word couldn't have been use. I'm not trying to say Nieto and Falks works were some what of rudimentary work for collegiate mind like minds, but sometimes it's nice to read something that flows so well without looking up words in the dictionary so often. Affirming Diversity by Sonia Nieto is about the seven basic characteristics of multicultural education which are: Multicultural education is antiracist education. Multicultural education is basic education.
In IB you have to be a better communicator and it’s a great skill to have for the future. When thinking teenagers mostly think about girlfriend/boyfriends, sports, parties, having fun etc.. ; But there is more to think about like grades, school and our futures. IB makes students think about all this and it’s a great skill to have. How many universities are there? , Over 100,000.
The results show that the hands on learning approach can create independent thinking and learners. This could potentially increase test scores, enhance classroom participation, and greatly benefit the entire eighth grade class, now, as well as in future years while at ABC School. Not only will the academic opportunity be great for our class, but a field trip to Egypt will be an amazing experience. We will be able to study the culture of the Egyptian people. A trip such as this could enhance many aspects of learning.