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Reading Strategies

If you want to read a book and understand it, it’s very hard for you if you don’t have a method. Sometimes I read a book but i don’t understand it so i don’t like to read that book and I feel very bored. When my teacher teach me how to have an effective method to read a book. He told to me read 20 minutes of a book I chose everyday and summarize, infer, predict, question and visualize it. I do it and i think it is very useful. And now, I like to read books.

The reading strategies help me to know more about my book. Summarize is writing what about I know about the story but just only 3-5 sentences. It helps me know about the important scenes in the book, so I can remember the story exactly and longer. When I use the reading strategies, the book is more interesting to me because I can make predictions, visualizations. I guess what is going to happen next in a book and form an image in my head or draw special scene to describe a title of a book, write one sentence in a book that describe a picture.

The reading strategies help me to understand more when I make an inference and questioning tower. Inferences are making writings about your thoughts about the characters in the book. For example : Inferences : Helen stood as a power example of how determination, hard work and imagination can allow an individual to triumph over adversity. By overcoming difficult conditions with a great deal of persistence. Evidence: She can’t talk, can’t hear, can’t see but she still studies to talk and she has a lot of successes. Helen always help other people like her and encourage them to overcome their trouble. I really like to use the reading strategies when I am reading because the reading strategies help me to understand the book more. As I understand the book more, I get more from the story and from that I like to read it because when I know it is interesting, I would read more and more. These reading strategies increased my reading interest because they help me get a better understanding of the book.

    I can make many connections with the  scenes in a book to the world, to self, to another book in order to understand more about a character. For example : Text to world : Helen can’t see and can’t hear like other normal people. I can understand the difficulties of her. Why don’t you try it and feel it. I also like another part of the book that tells a story about her trying to learn. Even though she is disabled but she does not give up in her life and always make more tries to reach her goals. Text to text: I have read a newspaper that also says something about trying to get a better life and it was about a girl who has a very poor family but she is a very smart girl and she studies very hard. Text to self : Helen scare storm. It remind me when I was child I scare storm like Helen.

Improved

After listening to other people work, i think i need to use more Figurative Language because when i ise more Figurative Language my dramma will better .

10 Interesting Fact on the Topic

-Birth: March 14, 1879
-Birth Place: Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg in Germany
-Religion/Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
-Field: Physics
-Schooling and College years: Attended the Catholic Elementary School in Munich, in his teens he attended the Luitpold Gymnasium. Graduated from the Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland in 1900 with a diploma in physics and mathematics.
-Key Achievements: Special relativity, General relativity, Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, Bose-Einstein Statistics.
-Notable Honors: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1921, The Copley medal in 1925 for his contributions to quantum theory and for his theory of relativity, the Max Planck medal in 1929 for his achievements in Physics.
-Death: 18 April, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
-Albert Einstein’s popular phrase “The important thing is to not stop questioning” reflected his never-ending questioning attitude and curiosity

Question about a History

Who is Shi Huangdi ? ( He is a king of the Chinese State of Quin from 246 BC to 221 BC )

Why did he want to built the Great Wall? ( He want to built the Great Wall to prevent Chinese from entering and conquering China )

Why did he die? ( He died of severe )
When did he die ? ( He died in 210 BC )

What is Mesopotamia ? ( Was an ancient region located mostly in modem-day Irap)

Where is Mesopotamia ? ( refers to the region now occupied by modern Irap, eastern Irap, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran )

Thesis Stament

Step 1 (Topic) : Albert Einstein
Step 2 (Issue) : Is a people smartest in a world
Step 3 (Position + Rationale / Because-clause) : Because he find out the Equation E=mc2. He got many Nobel and hard working.

Rome's drama script

Rome’s drama script.

Chau: Hello Tommy. What are you doing?
Tommy: Oh, hello. I’m doing my ESL homework. Today I am studying about The Roman Republic.
Chau: Oh, sounds cool. What are you studying  about The Roman Republic?
Tommy: Well, I know lots of information about Rome.
Chau: Can you tell me anything you know about Rome?
Tommy:  Well. There is lots of, lots of information about Rome, but I can only tell you a little bit about it because I have to go on a few more minutes, is that OK?
Chau: OK, just tell me about it.
Tommy: Today I will tell you about the Farm Life, the three Branches, the Patrician and Plebeiaus.
Chau: Ok, tell me about the farm life first.
Tommy:In....
Chau : Wait wait wait....I have an idea. Why do we do like a song, rap or poem. I think it will better.
Tommy : Woww! Your idea is great. I do it now:

In that time, a long long time ago,
farmers grew some vegetables, fruit
they raised animals like pigs,
sheep and ox
pull their crops.
Foods make the farmer powerful.
Life  here like heaven
But it's just a baby empire.


Chau: Cool, so what about
the three Branches? The three Branches
Is a thing i want to know !
the three Branches? The three Branches
Tommy:
There are 3 kinds of braches, they are:

(ex xa cu tive )Executive Branch,
Led government
command army, In the Army,
like a courageous captain

Legislative Branch,
made law and selected officials
Like a father in a family
Like a God in a world
Make rules for you and for me

Judicial Branch,
Oversaw courts and governed provinces
They are the Justice Keepers

Each Branch has different job
They all very important
They are as important as a life

So.....what do you think about Rome? He is so awesome, right ?
Chau: Oh, Rome Rome Rome.
Rome is AWESOME.I start to like Rome.
What about Patrician and Plebeiau, what does Patrician and Plebeiau mean?
Tommy:

Patricians are the upper class in Rome

that held government.
that held power like a king
Chau : i know something about the Patrician and Plebeiau , too.

Poor Plebeians are lower than Patricians.
Plebeians can vote but can’t hold government. positions
Patrician and Plebeiaus fought and finally
the Plebeiaus beat the Patricians
Chau : Wowwwww..! So good.
What do you know more about Rome?
Tommy : I just know about this. OK! I do my homework. See you later.
Chau : See you later.

Descibe a character in a movie you like

I write about :
I like Jeremy, he is a character in "You are handsome" - A Korean movie. He is a drummer in a famous boyband it is A.N.Jell. I like him because he like a baby and his character is exotic like his favorite is making nail, has a long hair. He like to make noisy, he always makes everyone happy and always smiles. He can play drum and sing very well. He also can play guitar and guitar bass. He very smart. Everyone usually call him " A boy has a eyes can smile".

Which story would you like to continue working on?  Why?

I want to write continue this story - Describe a character in a movie you like. Because he is my idol so i interested in this story.

Why is it a good story?

Because this story suitable to me. 

How can you make it better?

I will describe more about character, add more diagram, use more figurative language.

Einstein

Genius : a photobiography of Albert Einstein

i found it in AIS Library.

This is my Delicious bookmark :

http://delicious.com/barbie_onforlove