He was very outgoing and care very much about his students. From the beginning of the semester, he had told the whole class that his class was not going to be easy and much dedication was going to be needed in order to pass his class. All his lectures straight the textbook just reworded and summarized. Professor Hammontree talked very fast and hardly looked up while lecturing, but if a students could not understand something being discussed in his lecture, he would take the time to discuss it after class or was able to meet with you one-on-one in his office during his office hours. His exams, on the other hand, were essay question exams and were very difficult especially when someone didn’t study.
My Journey Though the Text Just as we change or the music we listen to or the food we eat and the people we choose to be around, throughout our lives what we read and how we read is ever changing. As early as I am able to remember my mother would read to me. I am sure that she read everything to me from menu's at restaurants we were at to the shopping list that I was checking off at the grocery store to Dr Seuss books. I loved it when she read to me but she had underlying goals that as a small child I was not able to understand. Her goal was to get me to read all on my own, which I did at a very early age I think directly because of all the time spend with her reading to me.
Having an imagination is necessary to get deeper in the story, and a good memory is also required to tie the pieces of the story together. And of course an artistic sense to appreciate the beauty of the author’s writing. Nabokov states “Since the master artist used his imagination in creating his book, it is natural and fair that the consumer of a book should use his imagination too.” The reader needs to also understand and appreciate the language used by the author. He needs to pay attention and notice the details in a novel and not just the general storyline. He needs to read with an open mind regardless of other people’s judgment of the novel.
Mr. Alessandri had us read Silence of the Lambs, Dune, and numerous short stories. I had always just read all the standard books for high school, but this was a whole new twist to reading for me. For once I truly enjoyed what I was reading. Science Fiction & Horror was no easy class, but I found myself paying full attention at all times out of sheer enjoyment of what I was hearing from my teacher. Mr. Alessandri had been teaching the class for almost thirty years so he knew the material like the back of his hand.
To learn Old English just to understand Shakespeare’s works, to me, is like learning calculus and physics to work at MacDonald’s your whole life. In the day itself when Shakespeare and his shadow writers were putting up plays in the globe theatre, they actually based most of their stories on Greek tragedy. Those Greek tragedies existed in oral form first and then written form and now they exist today, so he didn’t really bring anything new to the table. Many of us read fiction and non-fiction books and without a doubt I agree that books in general serve as a medium to propagate important values to us and also elicite emotional and social dialgoue. However, Shakespeare’s works in particular do not exactly play that role in today’s society because the things he wrote about cannot be related in today’s modern context.
He used the dictionary and over the time he was in prison he copied the entire thing into tablets and then read it out loud to himself when he had finished he realized he had remembered a lot of it. He began to read books on various subjects especially the writings of Elijah Muhammad and black history. This is how Malcolm X began to have a love of reading and
Throughout primary School and high school my love of reading and writing grew and so, did the number of books and also my ability to pronounce and understand English. Before I knew it, I had been acing all the sorts of verbal and written work presented to me, by my teachers because for me, it was more of curiosity and interest rather
At a young age, he finished up to volume P of the World Book Encyclopedia, which was a tremendously lengthy thing to reach up to. After that, he slowly got interested in other activities. He also played and mastered many games like Bridge, Monopoly, cards, etc. After dinner on Sundays, the entire family would play games. It was pretty serious too, and Bill didn’t like to lose.
The movie Good Will Hunting is based in Boston, and in the beginning of the movie the audience quickly understands that Will has a knack for getting into trouble. We also learn that Will has the ability to remember, learn, and understand information in an advanced manner, labeling him as a genius. In one of the first scenes of the movie, a math professor named Professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) gives his Hartford University math class an extraordinarily hard math problem to solve outside of class for extra credit. Will, a janitor at Hartford (doing community service for a crime he committed), sees the problem and solves it leaving every student in the actual math class, in the dust. The Professor eventually finds Will and wants to help him use his gift in the real world.
“Homer was becoming more surprising with every passing hour. It was getting hard to remember that this fast thinking guy, who’d just spent fifteen minutes getting us laughing and talking and feeling good again, wasn’t even trusted to hand out the books at school.” Through unlikely circumstances Homer has had to become a mature and responsible leader for the group. Most clearly though, we can see how Ellie changes. Because she is writing, we get a first