Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
CHAPTER 5 – Analyse the Text
One of the many Sunflowers series painting by Vincent van Gogh
Significant points from Chapter 5 include:
1. Listing
- Details listed to explain main idea
- Series of reasons, examples, facts (refer: details in print-ads)
2. Sequence / time order (refer: Lee Yan's Best Friend tv-ad)
3. Cause and effect
4. Compare and contrast
Note:
- Refer to list of signal words to familiarize yourself with all the skills mentioned
Related questions:
- What is the main idea of "Tan Hong Ming in Love"?
- What makes the choice of sequence (plot) in "Tan Hong Ming in Love" work?
- What is the main idea of "Lee Yan’s Best Friend"?
- What makes the choice of sequence (plot) in "Lee Yan’s Best Friend" work?
- What are the supporting ideas of Lee Yan’s Best Friend?
The Fish Bone (Essay skeletal diagram)
Basic diagram of an Essay
As far as I know, no reference book has labelled this diagram 'The Fish Bone' as we do in class. This has actually been derived from the diagram of an essay by Joy Reid.
Reference
Reid, J. (1988) The Process of Composition (2nd Ed.) Prentice Hall Regents: New Jersey, pp. 42-43
CHAPTER 4 – Understand *Supporting Details
Philips V900 Advertisement
Significant points from Chapter 4 include:
1. SD support the main idea by telling how, when, where, why, how much, how many.
2. SD provide examples, facts, descriptions, explanations, or reasons.
3. What additional information does the author provide to help me understand the main idea?
4. Look for signal words: first, second, next, also, in addition, moreover.
5. Scan
- Have a question in mind, specific kind of info
- Use headings, boldfaced words, italics, numbers, charts, quotation marks
- Ignore unimportant info
- Move eyes rapidly across the text
*Refer to the Fish Bone
Related questions:
- What do you see in these advertisements?
- What makes the “story” in these advertisements understandable?
- How do they make you feel when you “read” these advertisements?
- Philips: snake bite, bear trap
- Betadine: bike accident, scissor cut, wood cut
- WWF Earth: shark, crocodile
Note:
- Ads of the World: Creative Advertising Archive and Community
CHAPTER 3 – Use Vocabulary Strategies
Most of the time, we do not know the meaning of certain words. Without using thesaurus or dictionary, we can use the context to guess meaning. There are 5 strategies.
In the sentence, look for:
1. Definition of the word
2. Examples explaining the word
3. Word or phrase in another part of the sentence with similar meaning
4. Word or phrase in another part of the sentence with opposite meaning
5. Use general sense of the sentence to make conclusions
Other strategy includes breaking the word to its prefix, suffix, or circumfix to get the root word.
Note:
- Dave Parker (English cartoonist)
CHAPTER 2 – Identify Main Ideas
1. Identifying Main Idea - most important reading strategies used by good readers
2. Speed up reading, help understanding & remember what you read
- Who or what is the reading about? – The topic
- What does the author want me to know about the topic? – The main idea
3. *Main idea in introductory paragraph is called “Thesis Statement”
4. *Main idea in body paragraph (content) is called “Topic Sentence”
*Refer to the Fish Bone
Note:
- The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo (Mexican artist, Rivera's ex-wife)
- Frida (2002 American Movie)
- Yo-Yo Ma (French-American cellist)
CHAPTER 1 – Think Before You Read
Significant points from Chapter 1 include:
1. Preview
- Title, subtitle, section headings, introductions
- words in bold print or italics
- pictures, graphics
2. Activate your background knowledge
- Information you already know
- Background knowledge
3. Predict
- Guess what you are going to read
4. Set a purpose
- Gives reason for you to read
- Ask yourself questions that you would like to have answered (Wh-Question tags)
- KWL Chart
Note:
- Overall, reading skills presented in this chapter are meant to strengthen understanding and content memorization of the reading materials.
- I and the Village by Marc Chagall
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