Reading Skills & Strageties

Jieun Park

Oral Communication 5

Visualize: Is to make a mental image in your head.

• Skimming: To glide a text fastly.
• Scanning: To search for key words and ideas.
• Story Triangle: Creative way to think and summarize a story like traditional story map, helps to recognize story easily.

Making Inferences: Making educated guesses based on what you all ready know.

• K-W-L: K-W-L is an introductory strategy that provides a structure for recalling what students know about a topic, noting what students want to know, and finally listing what has been learned and is yet to be learned.

Compare & Contrast:

The similarities and differences between two or more people, places, or things Venn Diagram: An illustration that uses overlapping or non-overlapping circles to show the relationship between finite groups of things. T-Chart: Used for listing two separate viewpoints of a topic. Topics can include anything that can be cleanly divided into two opposing views. Sequence: An arrangement of two or more things in a successive order. The Story Sequence Chart: Ss will learn to sequence events in their correct chronogical order with the provide story. Story Element Chart: Chart: Chart which Ss analyze setting,characters, events of the story, and climax. Main Ideas Chart: Chart where you can analyze the details, more details etc. Getting meaning from context: Is when you don't need to need to use the dictionary. Cause and Effect: Cause is applied to an action taking place from anything that results with an effect that will leave evidence of an occurrence that took place by anything on this planet.

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"Dr.Heidegger's Experiment.": Story Analysis

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

▶Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography◀

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He wrote and published several short stories, but the stories were published anonymously. Years later, he got married to Sophia Peabody. Then he started to write novels. Some of his most popular works are th Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables are novels that made him famous. Today, these two novels are part of the classics of American Literature.

▶Summary: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment◀

There is a strange old man called Dr. Heidegger. Once he invited four friends to meet with him at his house. His friends had lived sad and unfortunate lives, because they were greedy, conceited and dishonest. Dr. Heidegger invited them for an experiment with the water from the Fountain of Youth, which it was a liquid that makes people young, so his friends drank the liquid. The doctor told them to don't make the same mistakes that they did when they were young, but nobody listened to the doctor so they did the same mistakes again and became old again.

▶Analyze: Plot◀

A) Conflict: Dr.Heidegger invites his friends to experiment if people can change giving a second chance.

B) Rising Actions:

• Dr. Heidegger and the four friends goes to the laboratory.
• Dr. Heidegger shows them a old flower and he put some water on it.
• The flower was blooming like a new one, all the friends were shocked.
• The friends drank the water.
• His friends became young people.
• The friends drank more water.
• His friends became more young.
• The three young people started to fight for the girl.

C) Climax: While they was fighting, they spilled the water on the floor.

D) Resolution: 

• The friends want to go to Florida and look for the Fountain of Youth.
• Dr. Heidegger discover that people don't change.

▶Analyze: Characters◀

Dr. Heidegger: 

• Psychological Traits: He is Kind, Generous, Morbid, Wise, and Melancholic.
• Physical Traits: An old man with white hair and beard.

Mr. Medbourne: 

• Psychological Traits: He was rich. Sad, Greedy and Selfish. 
• Physical Traits: An old man with white beard, he was rich, but now his poor.

Colonel Killigrew: 

• Psychological Traits: He was Unhealthy, Irresponsible, alcoholic and a smoker 
• Physical Traits: He was a soldier in the past, now is an old man with white beard.

The Widow Wycherly: 

• Psychological Traits: She was beautiful, but conceited.
• Physical Traits: An old woman with white hair, she was pretty in the past.

▶Moral or teaching of the story◀

In this story we can see that all the characters were living dishonest and problematic. Now that they are old they know the mistakes that they did, so they don't want to repeat the mistakes. However when they knew about the special water "The Fountain of Youth" they act like when they were young again. So that means that they didn't realize their mistakes at all and they will act the same without correcting their mistakes. People don't change, although giving them an second chance.

▶Personal Opinion◀

I liked very much this story, because is unique. Very realistic, talked about the people when they were young. The history of dishonesty and the egocentric life of them. I agree that people mistakes are really hard to fix it, it takes very long time. But if people tries to fix it with all your heart everything is possible!

Something Funny: Story Analysis

Elizabeth van Steenwyk (1928)

Ms. Van Steenwyk Biography ◀

Elizabeth van Steenwyk was born in 1928, she is an author who has written books for children. She is an American children's author. She had wrote several famous books for children. She started to write book since she was 10. This author has also won the  Texas Bluebonnet Award and Vermont's Rebecca Caudill Award.

Summary: Something Funny ◀

There was a couple named Janey and Bill. However, Janey thought that Bill was a boring person. When they went to the party, Bill started to talk about the strange dream he had about the three-eyed aliens. While he told Janey about his dream, he couldn't stop laughing about the three-eyed aliens. Janey didn't want to hide anything and pretend to be someone else and got tired of Bill. So finally, Janey showed her third eye to Bill, and he got shocked.

Analyze: Plot ◀

A) Conflict:  Janey was tired of Bill.

B) Rising Actions:           

                          → Janey was thinking to tell Bill that she don't want to go out with him anymore.

                             → Janey was waiting for Bill to arrive.

                                → They were going to the party.

                                    → During the arrive Bill told Janey about his weird dream.

                                            

C) Climax:  Janey got tired, so she showed her third eye to Bill.

D) Resolution:  Bill was shocked that Janey was an alien.

Analyze: Characters ◀

Jane's physical characteristics & psychological traits:

☞ Jane has the third eye in her forehead.

☞ Jane is impatient / Nervous / Serious

Bill's physical characteristics & psychological traits:

☞ Bill is an weakling person who needs to rest every time.

☞ Bill is concentrated / Dull / Imaginary

Irony of the Story ◀

The irony in the story is Janey. She is acting like a human being pretending that she is somebody else, and at the end she is an alien.

Personal Opinion◀

First, this story was boring,but it was gradually getting interesting. I liked it because it is an ironical story; children would love this story because it is about the aliens. I never thought that Janey was an alien and that she had the third eye. I kept thinking how she could hide her third eye like that. At the end of the story, I think that the climax of the story surprised me a lot because it was unexpected.