Comparison and Contrast

I learned about “Compare and Contrast” in a Discourse Approach in Reading class. This unit, the teacher told compares and contrast describes about two things or more things which were similarities and differences. Then, I did exercise about New York and Paris. Furthermore, I did exercise about Hurricane Andrew, it very big and strong. I was so scared.

The teacher told about the Hurricane Andrew details such as its category, wide, etc. She assigned me read and did the exercise before she showed the answers. I think it was a good idea.

Procedure

I learned about the procedure. The teacher told that the procedure was to tell the reader how to do or make something. It was a list in order of use. In my opinion, the procedure was rather too easy for me. In addition, she showed the example for students. It was how to make a banana shake. Then, she told “Goal” was heading, materials were list, and method was instructions. Furthermore, she assigned the exercise one for students. The exercise was about omelet recipe. It was difficult because the picture was not clear. The last, she had homework for students. “You had to present about anything of procedure; for example, chickens soup, fire right, juice, etc."

Descriptive

On Thursday, I learned about the Descriptive with Dr Usa. The descriptive is a text which say about what a person, a thing, a place or animals is like. For this class, I learned the descriptive about the matter of Komodo dragon, Budapest, and Prague.

The Komodo dragon was a giant monitor lizard found in Indonesia, and it can grow up to 3 to 4 meters in length. It made me feel scare.

And the next, I leaned about the Budapest in Hungary. It was describe about history of Budapest and tour in Buddha and Pest. Finally, I leaned about Prague. It was describe about the city and the uniqueness of Prague. After we read finished, we had to do the exercise from the text.
The descriptive make easy to read and understand about the text, and maybe, it can help me, when I have the test.

Narrative

Today I was going to learn about the secret story. Who’s the secret? It was Kylie’s secrets and there were many problems in Kylie's family; for example, she not lived with her father, her mother’s new husband, etc. First, I studied the story by myself. Second, I shared the story with my partner and the teacher described about the story for us. Then, I would like to write the summary of this story part one and part two.

The summary part one
     Kylie feels leave out from her mother and Philip’s activities. She becomes interested in the chickens in the yard. Somehow, her secrets help her to feel less lonely. She finds a second egg and then finds out where others are being laid by an unhealthy-looking her. She saw another egg added to the nest up the back every day. Then, her secrets become the bigger every day. By the time, she left alone but she was happy. She like to sat on the fence and sharing the secrets with the hen. Sometime, she likes to see her photo album at the grapevines and missed her father.

The summary part two

        After, Kylie was forbidden to lift the lid. She thinks about it every time. And then, she began to lift the lid of the well. She climbs down to the well with her photo album every day. And every time that she saw her photo album, she thinks why her father and her mother did not live together with her. Moreover, when she looked at the only picture in her album, she held the picture close to her face. It made her confident and it stopped her from feeling lonely. By the time, on Sunday afternoon, Kylie lifted to the lid of the well as usual. Suddenly, Philip caught her and hit her. Then, Philip bought a padlock to lock the well. At dusk, she put the chicken and the hen into the cardboard box and dropped them down the well. Although, she will do it, but she cry. Then, she took her photograph the only one from its place in the album, and she cut off her head and poked it through a hole in the fly screen of the window.


My opinion:
        I feel sorry for Kylie because she is left out from mother and she feels alone.
        I disapprove of Kylie’s mother because she always didn’t care her daughter and she often left Kylie alone.
        I disapprove of Philip because he made Kylie feel alone.  
Symbols
        The eggs: Kylie’s secrets and they help her from feel lonely. Then, they were instead the new things in her life.
       The well: The well is the secret of place for Kylie.
        The photo album: this is a good remember about Kylie’s father.
        Kylie’s cutting her photo: she was destroying her happily remember.
     
        *If I were Kylie I will make a good thing, and I will try to join with mother’s activity. Then, I will be a good child. May be, I am going to live with my father.

Narrative

 On Thursday, I went to the university to learn with Dr. Usa Noytim. This day, she taught about the Narratives for class. She taught about the purpose of the narratives, types and text organization. I think the narratives weren't difficult. Moreover, I wanted to tell to the teacher “I'm sorry teacher, but I will try to understand the things that you taught”.Then she told us divide group 5-6 person. After that in group write recount and present in front of the class After we read the text finish, we started answers the question and I was  very  happy.