A COMPILATION OF LITERATURE TEACHING STRATEGIES A. Pre-Reading Strategies Strategy Overview (What is the strategy about?) Benefits (Why use this strategy?) Procedure/s (When‚ Where‚ How to use?) Opinionnaire (Macalnas‚ Saidamen) Consists of a series of statements (controversial) that students think about and on which they will form/state opinions A tool for eliciting attitudes about a topic. Allows students to begin about a topic and build background knowledge. Promotes students becoming active
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Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is an International Partnership of people dedicated to serving underprivileged children in Vietnam and Mongolia with the hope of helping each child maximize their life potential. The death of her mother‚ when Christina was 10‚ brought about the separation of the children‚ as they were all sent to different orphanages.Christina spent four desperate years in the west of Ireland in an Institute being led to believe that her brothers and sisters were
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"Literature adds to reality‚ it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect‚ it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S Lewis‚ a British scholar and novelist. This wise saying is perhaps the most appropriate description of the importance of literature in our lives and especially to children. Literature reminds us of stories‚ epics‚ sacred scriptures and classical works of the ancient and
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Mr. Pescatore Christina Aguilera Christina Marie Aguilera was born on Decemebr 18th‚ 1980 in Staten Island‚ New York. Her father‚ Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera‚ was Ecuadorian. Her mother‚ Shelly Loraine Filder‚ was Irish American. Her father was a sargeant in the U.S Army which required her family to move around a lot. Her childhood was also filled with a lot of physical and emotional abuse from her father. Christina started singing and performing to deal with things
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In Christina Rosen’s article “In the beginning was the word”‚ the author speaks of how important writing is and how it is changing. Quoting C.S Lewis‚ Rosen speaks of how reading connect us together‚ bringing us understanding of one another and make each of us feel less lonely. “We read to know we are not alone‚” one can hardly argue against this idea‚ for the original purpose of writing was to record and convey informations‚ experience one had in life. While a kitten can learn how to hunt from his
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Anderson English 104 Brost 27 September 2013 Jazz‚ Liquor and Sex Appeal‚ Chicago At a time where crimes of passion flood the newspaper’s headlines‚ Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves in Chicago’s own Murderess Row in The Cook County Jail. Broadway fanatics everywhere raved about the 2002 award winner of best picture‚ Chicago‚ starring Renée Zellweger‚ Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The glitz and glamour of jazz‚ liquor and sex shine through in this film‚ but are all these
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Her Life • Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children • Mother- Gabriele Rossetti‚ an Italian patriot who came to London in 1824. • She had one sister‚ Maria‚ and two brothers‚ Dante Gabriel and William. • Brought up as devout Anglo-Catholics. Christina’s elder sister Maria eventually became an Anglican nun. • In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson‚ a member of her brother’s Pre-Raphaelite circle. (broke it off when he
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famous attorneys of the twentieth century‚ Clarence Darrow clearly expresses his feelings about prison in his Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail. In the speech‚ he says that he does not believethat people are in jail because the deserve to be. Clearly stating his reason for having such a negative aspect towards jail‚ he feels people are put in jail because of the circumstances beyond their control. The world today is starving. The hunger for money has now become the target for any disaster
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Jail and Prison History of Prisons During this course we have learned a lot about America has grown and changed over the past few hundred years. We started back in the 1780’s were punishments focused on public humiliation‚ workhouses‚ and corporal punishments‚ then in colonial times (1790s) we began to institute more humane practices that included incarceration. In 1825 we entered the mass prison era‚ prisons then focused on efficiency‚ communal meals‚ no eye contact‚ and other minor changes. In
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Integrated Approach to Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom This article considers the reasons why teachers often regard literature as inappropriate to the language classroom. These views reflect the historic separation between the study of language and the study of literature‚ which has led to the limited role of literature in the language classroom. However‚ the use of literary texts can be a powerful pedagogic tool. This article describes various approaches to teaching literature and provides a
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