NATASHA DAVIES
LANGUAGE ART
UNIT 1:THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP
Essential Question:
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What does metacognition do for us?
Metacognition is a person's knowledge that have the ability to control by organizing and modifying them as a function of learning. Metacognition helps us understand what are their weakness and strength. The students can improve their weakness when they understand what are their weaknesses. It allow us to be successful learners. Student can be more successful when they’re using metacognition. This can lead us to be more responsible of what should we improve the weakness.
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What brings a character to life?
Having a character in a story that brings to life is a really rewarding parts of the story. Characters in story are important to represent the reader that it is realistic enough to enable the reader to understand the feelings of each characters. The reader use the characters to express the pot of the story that they want to tell. Anyway, bringing a character to life can be a possible if we give them personality, voice, emotions, physical characteristics, skills, and actions. These ideas are the common ideas that can be possibly turn a fictional character into an realistic character like human! First of all, the writer needs to think of what will the story will be about and that each characters can be fit in the story well to make the story flow effectively. Adding a personality to a character can turn from a fictional character into an realistically character as possible, because personality is the combination of characteristics or in another word is that it is a qualities that form an individual's distinctive character. Having an unique personality in an character can be hard to create but it can be worth it for the story and it also brings a character to life. However, every character have their own voice and each of them are difference from others. The story must include speeches to bring the plot of the story more detail and interesting, the characters will do the job by using their voice to express the speech. Emotion and voice are connected because voice lead to express the characters’ feelings. Emotion can brings a character to life because humans have feelings that express into emotions. Other than emotion that brings characters to life is physical appearance. Physical appearance give a character how they look like. Including motion and action in a story could change everything of the story since motion and action can be a negative or a positive action that will fit in with the plot of the story. Although, In real life, humans have life stage from birth to death, anyway characters should include life stages to turn them realistic as possible. Birth in where the characters start and the end of the story could be the death of the character, actually it’s up to the writer choice if they wanted an sad ending or a happy ending.
-Personality
-Voice
-Emotions
-Physical Characteristics
-Actions
-The stages of life(birth,teenage,death)
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What makes an effective communicate?
Communication takes place by 2 or more people and it is important to be an effective communicator because the person you're trying to communicate your thoughts must be able to understand easily. Communication with an effective communicator help us understand a person or a situation clearly. An effective communicator must speak clearly and loud enough when communicate with others. Listen attentively to what the person who are communicating to. Respond as smooth as you possible when they're asking a question.
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In what ways does literature connect us to a larger world?
The literature connects us to a larger world because as we are reading a format of literature, we learn new vocabulary and this will lead us to gain more ability of knowledge. It is a writing form with letters. Sometimes literature include morals, which means there's a lesson behind the story and this connect us to a larger world because the morals can teach people the lesson.
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How does what you learned connect to the real world?
I learned that the story is connected to the real world because the story is about the Excalibur sword and in the real world, the Excalibur sword and King Arthur is real. King Arthur is master of the Excalibur sword. The tale of King Arthur is a mystical story about a King who was a son of King Uther Pendragon. After his beloved father died, the conflict begins over who should be the next king. The powerful sword was suddenly set in the stone by Merlin by his shamanistic power skills. The one who pull out the sword out of the stone will be successfully turn them in to the new king. Everyone tries to pull the sword out of it by their best effort, but still every single person didn’t succeed their expectation until King Arthur ran in and grab the sword, pulled it out with his own hands, finally the sword wasn’t attach to the stone. Following this he became the new king. King Arthur took place in the land called ‘Camelot’.
How did you develop or grow as a student through this unit?
I developed as a student through this unit by being responsibly reading the book called 'The EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP' for this quarter’s assignment. Logging on reading log to record the events of the story and I also state if its a literal, inferential or a critical.
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As you look at the work that you have completed throughout this unit, what do you think you could improve?
My weakness of this unit is that I have many insightful thoughts to share and I have a hard time trying to express myself in writing because of English syntax. I could improve the work that I have completed throughout this unit by adding more details to the Reading log. I could improve of me using verb tense consistent. I’m going to try to avoid bringing up new topic in the last sentence of a paragraph. I’m having difficulties are using subject verb agreement and forming a sentence structure. To improve my difficulties, this way I have to improve by focus and carefully when forming a sentence and using subject verb agreement.
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As you look at the work that you have completed throughout this unit, what are your strength?
In this unit, I read the book called ‘The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp ‘ by Rick Yancey. I did a really impressive job for my critical thinking in my reading log for the story. My strength throughout this unit is understanding the story . I think that I used good usage of text evidence to support my thinking. I have used text evidence from the book to support my essay about the essay choice and the essay about is Alfred is real the master of the sword and is he suitable for the excalibur sword.
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Evidence
-Is Alfred really the master of the sword? Is he suitable?
-Alfred Kropp(Essay choice)
-Character Complexity
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