I attempted exercise one and two of the exercise with loads of success. I achieved 20/20 on both of those activities, these didn't really allow my understanding of fused sentences and comma splices, although the prizes and pictures were rather interesting.
Then I attempted exercise three this one was harder and actually took some reading over the sentences, I only achieved 18/20 on this exercise. The only problems I had encountered were mis-reading the sentences and identifying them in-correctly.
When I had gotten to about the 10th sentence of each exercise I found the rest rather easy, and for exercise two and three I just read the underlined words and chose from those choices, 100% of the time it was correct, this exercises I felt taught me very little about comma splices and fused sentences. It would have been better if the exercise made you choose the underlined word then having to identify whether it was a comma splice or a fused sentence, I felt this would have far greatly increased my knowledge and understanding.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Shining Houses
1) Explain what type of narration is used in this story.
There are two types of narration in this story that I can Identify there is retrospective narration (first person narration) and present progressive narration.
2) How is "The Shining Houses" structured? Why do you suppose Munro structured the narrative this way?
The shining houses is structured in a way that you can know Mrs. Fullerton and her back story and to allow Mary to get to know Mrs. Fullerton’s back story. Without this information the story would have seemed completely different the reader wouldn’t have empathized with Mrs. Fullerton to much, the reason it was set up like this could be for many reasons the author could have had an image in her head and wanted the story like that, to make it a better story and many other reasons.
3) Discuss irony in the story with respect to the title.
The shinning houses is very ironic because the houses are not shinning or shiny at all and the people living in them are not good people they do not have very “shining” personalities.
4) What distinction does the story highlight in terms of the difference between legal and moral?
The story shows that there is a very large contrasting difference between what is legal and moral. There are a lot of thing’s that are legal to do but they are not always the most morally right thing to do. In this story the “new people” want to get rid of a house that is Mrs. Fullerton’s, even though they are going about it legally they are over looking the morals about the situation by making someone move out of a house they love. They are simply overlooking her feeling’s and don’t seem to care about morals just what will benefit themselves.
5) Sketch Mary's character. (note: this doesn't mean draw her, rather it means to describe her in terms of the definition above)
Mary is a very caring mother who seems to be content at the beginning of this story. She has good moral values and sees that you have to repect people and what they want, and that it is the right thing to respect your elders. She had great intentions and a sense of motivation to do what would be good for Mrs. Fullerton to the extent the story was told too. Mary knew what kind of person she wanted to be and she didn’t let her feeling be hidden, but in the end she seemed to overlooked her feeling’s to keep peace.
There are two types of narration in this story that I can Identify there is retrospective narration (first person narration) and present progressive narration.
2) How is "The Shining Houses" structured? Why do you suppose Munro structured the narrative this way?
The shining houses is structured in a way that you can know Mrs. Fullerton and her back story and to allow Mary to get to know Mrs. Fullerton’s back story. Without this information the story would have seemed completely different the reader wouldn’t have empathized with Mrs. Fullerton to much, the reason it was set up like this could be for many reasons the author could have had an image in her head and wanted the story like that, to make it a better story and many other reasons.
3) Discuss irony in the story with respect to the title.
The shinning houses is very ironic because the houses are not shinning or shiny at all and the people living in them are not good people they do not have very “shining” personalities.
4) What distinction does the story highlight in terms of the difference between legal and moral?
The story shows that there is a very large contrasting difference between what is legal and moral. There are a lot of thing’s that are legal to do but they are not always the most morally right thing to do. In this story the “new people” want to get rid of a house that is Mrs. Fullerton’s, even though they are going about it legally they are over looking the morals about the situation by making someone move out of a house they love. They are simply overlooking her feeling’s and don’t seem to care about morals just what will benefit themselves.
5) Sketch Mary's character. (note: this doesn't mean draw her, rather it means to describe her in terms of the definition above)
Mary is a very caring mother who seems to be content at the beginning of this story. She has good moral values and sees that you have to repect people and what they want, and that it is the right thing to respect your elders. She had great intentions and a sense of motivation to do what would be good for Mrs. Fullerton to the extent the story was told too. Mary knew what kind of person she wanted to be and she didn’t let her feeling be hidden, but in the end she seemed to overlooked her feeling’s to keep peace.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Miss Brill
1) Describe the narration used in "Miss Brill"
Miss Brill has a bunch of different narration going on within the story. There is not to much narration because the narrator does not seem to know that Miss Brill is very mentally unstable. There also the fact the that the narrator never clarifies that Miss Brill is mentally unstable making the story a little hard for the reader to understand some of it.
2) How reliable is the narration in "Miss Brill"? What are some clues that the actual events in the story are somewhat different than the narrator's version?
The narration in Miss Brill is not to reliable, due to the main fact that a major importance of the story was left out about the fact she was mentally unstable. The actual events are very different because a lot of the story at certain portions don't make sense and you can tell that these events are slightly different from what they would be like in reality.
Miss Brill has a bunch of different narration going on within the story. There is not to much narration because the narrator does not seem to know that Miss Brill is very mentally unstable. There also the fact the that the narrator never clarifies that Miss Brill is mentally unstable making the story a little hard for the reader to understand some of it.
2) How reliable is the narration in "Miss Brill"? What are some clues that the actual events in the story are somewhat different than the narrator's version?
The narration in Miss Brill is not to reliable, due to the main fact that a major importance of the story was left out about the fact she was mentally unstable. The actual events are very different because a lot of the story at certain portions don't make sense and you can tell that these events are slightly different from what they would be like in reality.
Engaged Reading Activity
My experience in reading started off at a young age. Aural reading was the way I started to learn to read with Sesame Street, with many of there various reading exercises including the “Letter Of The Day”, and many other activities they would do for children around my age or even older. The show had a good combination of appeal to the audience, structure of the show, the layout of the show and also the“flash-iness” to keep the audience attentive, even if you “tuned” in when the show is half-way through you could understand what they were doing and it'd still catch your eye.
Through this show my interest of reading was sparked, I urged to read so eventually I started to learn. At first it would be very frustrating reading, taking so long to get through a story book. I would struggle until I persevered, I can remember the excitement of reading that first book “ The Cat and the Hat”, this feeling made me want to read even more and eventually I read a lot of the works of Dr.Seuss,Franklin, and Curious George.
Eventually after those “small” books I made my way to Novels like Goosebumps. These were a bit of a challenge at first due to bigger words, no pictures on the page, the number of pages, and the amount of words on each page. But through perseverance I made it through them with very little problems and became a better visual reader because of these books.
Then by the time Grade 5 came around we had a sheet to fill out each day for at least an hour of reading each night after school. This eventually discouraged me from reading for the first time in my life I felt I had to read not because I wanted to but because, I was being made to for marks, this is where my reading started going downhill. Each day I read less and less, I didn't want to read, all the extravagant adventures became boring and dull, I then started to hate reading, my hatred growing towards it, making it feel like a chore rather then a pleasure.
My interest in reading then virtually became extinct, like a fire burning out, but upon the fire for reading going out there was a spark left that one day may re-light the fire for reading. After about 3 years of not liking to read I was asked if I read the “Lord Of the Rings” series by a friend of course I said yes even though I hadn’t read it. Then I spent the next couple of weeks reading it so I could talk about it to my friend and of course I loved the series could picture every single detail it was amazing, the journey, battles, adventures, also the amazing plot, and this sparked the fire for my reading that had once gone out.
As the fire was re-lit I began to read more and more series and books people recommended like “Harry Potter” , “House of Chains” series, “The Da vinci Code” and many more. Than I began to read more in school and it wasn’t to bad I actually liked some of the books like “Animal farm”, “Great expectations”, “Merchant of Venice” and some others.
Another place I use my “reading ability” is at work. I am currently employed at Zehrs Niagara, working there for just over two years now. I use my visual reading to read labels for products, making sure they are put within’ the right place. To order products I have to make sure I have ordered the right product and case, building displays I have to make sure I put the right product on the display according to the “plan” that comes and according to how much product we have or listening to my boss to find out what has to be done and jotting it down.
Now currently I am reading Biology 12 University, Chemistry 12 University and the “Twilight”series which my girlfriend had recommended to me. Biology and Chemistry books both greatly interest me because it is knowledge about the world and matter which I don’t know. The “Twilight” series on the other hand is decent, it’s not the best series out there but, it is also not the worst, it vividly describes the characters, but has a rather simple plot line, not a whole lot of mental process is required to understand what is going on or secret messages for later.
Clearly reading is and has been a big part of my life. Everyday I use both Aural and Visual reading from listening to music and singing along to the lyrics, to reading texts on my phone to reading at school to listening to my boss talk at work and jotting down things that need to be done. Everywhere in modern day life requires Aural or Visual reading.
Through this show my interest of reading was sparked, I urged to read so eventually I started to learn. At first it would be very frustrating reading, taking so long to get through a story book. I would struggle until I persevered, I can remember the excitement of reading that first book “ The Cat and the Hat”, this feeling made me want to read even more and eventually I read a lot of the works of Dr.Seuss,Franklin, and Curious George.
Eventually after those “small” books I made my way to Novels like Goosebumps. These were a bit of a challenge at first due to bigger words, no pictures on the page, the number of pages, and the amount of words on each page. But through perseverance I made it through them with very little problems and became a better visual reader because of these books.
Then by the time Grade 5 came around we had a sheet to fill out each day for at least an hour of reading each night after school. This eventually discouraged me from reading for the first time in my life I felt I had to read not because I wanted to but because, I was being made to for marks, this is where my reading started going downhill. Each day I read less and less, I didn't want to read, all the extravagant adventures became boring and dull, I then started to hate reading, my hatred growing towards it, making it feel like a chore rather then a pleasure.
My interest in reading then virtually became extinct, like a fire burning out, but upon the fire for reading going out there was a spark left that one day may re-light the fire for reading. After about 3 years of not liking to read I was asked if I read the “Lord Of the Rings” series by a friend of course I said yes even though I hadn’t read it. Then I spent the next couple of weeks reading it so I could talk about it to my friend and of course I loved the series could picture every single detail it was amazing, the journey, battles, adventures, also the amazing plot, and this sparked the fire for my reading that had once gone out.
As the fire was re-lit I began to read more and more series and books people recommended like “Harry Potter” , “House of Chains” series, “The Da vinci Code” and many more. Than I began to read more in school and it wasn’t to bad I actually liked some of the books like “Animal farm”, “Great expectations”, “Merchant of Venice” and some others.
Another place I use my “reading ability” is at work. I am currently employed at Zehrs Niagara, working there for just over two years now. I use my visual reading to read labels for products, making sure they are put within’ the right place. To order products I have to make sure I have ordered the right product and case, building displays I have to make sure I put the right product on the display according to the “plan” that comes and according to how much product we have or listening to my boss to find out what has to be done and jotting it down.
Now currently I am reading Biology 12 University, Chemistry 12 University and the “Twilight”series which my girlfriend had recommended to me. Biology and Chemistry books both greatly interest me because it is knowledge about the world and matter which I don’t know. The “Twilight” series on the other hand is decent, it’s not the best series out there but, it is also not the worst, it vividly describes the characters, but has a rather simple plot line, not a whole lot of mental process is required to understand what is going on or secret messages for later.
Clearly reading is and has been a big part of my life. Everyday I use both Aural and Visual reading from listening to music and singing along to the lyrics, to reading texts on my phone to reading at school to listening to my boss talk at work and jotting down things that need to be done. Everywhere in modern day life requires Aural or Visual reading.
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