A Summer's Reading - Post Reading

01/05/2013
To: Mr. Cattanzara

Where is your writing????

As I Grew Older - Bridging Text And Context

Langston Hughes was an African-American writer and poet. In his poetry, Hughes try(gr.) to describe the experiences, emotions and voices of the black people during the slavery time(no!). Hughes was leading a movement that call(ww.-called) the Harlem Renaissance. Its members believed that through art, liteature and music, Africans Americans could challenge recial(sp.) stereotypes and bring about racial equality and integration.

That information below cause(ww.+gr.) me to understand alot of things about the poem. First, I understood what the poet's dream is. According to the information below, the poet was decisive to be free and get a better life for him and his people, which perfectly match(gr.) the poet dream. When he was a kid he was dreaming about (a) good life. As he grew up he understand that his people wont be able to get the life they wanted. When he grew up even more he was decisive to free his people from slavery(ww.), just like the information below teach(ww.+gr.) us.

Second, i understood why the poem wrote for(gr.-use the passive). The Harlem Renaissance intend(gr.-use the past) to fight stereotypes with art, poetry and music. That poem was made to show the black people's dreams and thoughts about their slavery(ww.) and poor and miserable life(gr.-lives). That poem shows us that the black people got the will to fight for what they intend to achieve, freedom.

To conclude, The information below helped me to understood alot for difficultys(sp.) that i couldnt understood(gr.) beofre, like what was the poet('s) dream or what was the reason that the poem wrote for(gr.). Additionaly, I understood how much the black people were suffering, and how much they sacrifice(gr.) for freedom.

Not bad.
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Daphna

A SUMMER'S READING - BRIDING TEXT AND CONTEXT

Bernaed Malamud was an american writer who wrote about oridinary people, trying to attain the american middle-class dream. His characters are often awkward and isolated from society. That information help(gr.) me to(מ יותר) understand some specific things about the story that i didnt understand before.

First, I didn't understand why the main character on(ww.) the story is someone like George. He is lazy, dont(gr.) have an education, work, money, he is very poor and he dont(gr.) have many friends, (new sentence) so he is(gr.) not fit to be the main hero on(ww.) the story(why is that??). But that information below tought(ww.) me that this is the personal writting style of the writer, and that (is) why he took George as the main hero of the story- it is not clear what you mean in this paragraph.

In addition, the information below help(gr.) to(מיותר) understand what push(gr.) George to get an education and read 100 books during the summer vaction. George wanted to achieve the american middle-class dream, which is to get (a) better life, (a) better job, (a) family, (and a) better house.

To conclude, the information below help(gr.) to to(מיותר) understand alot of different things that i not(gr.) understood before, like why the writer chose Geroge as main hero(ww.) of the story or what push(gr.( George to get a better education.

Not bad.
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Daphna

Introduction Of Poetry – Bridging Text And Context

Billy Collins is an american poet. On(ww.) 2001, Collins started a program called "poetry 180", and collins explained that he want(gr.) high school students to hear a poem every day, so that the poem will(gr.) be a feature of daily life and not something that is just taught.

From(מיותר) the information above helps me to(מיותר) understand what was Collins' target when he created "poetry 180". He wanted to help the students to conncet to the poem and make them hear the(מיותר) poem(s) every day, so they will(gr.) discuss about the poem and not just learn it like most people do(phr.-what does that mean exactly?).

In addtion, collins wanted to change the way that poetry taught(gr.-use the passive properly). he wanted to discourage(ww.) the teachers to bring the poem to the calssroom, so the students will hear the poem on the(ww.) school and try to anylsis(ww.) the poem by themself(gr.-themselves).

To conclude, collins wanted to change the way poetry taught(gr.) by creating the program "poetry 180", and wanted the students to appriciate and love poetry and make poetry a feature of (their) daily life.

Nice
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Daphna

Introduction Of Poetry – Post Reading

According to the poem, there are two ways to learn a poem, and it’s meaning. One way is the slow way, and according to the poem, the better way. The other way, is the fast way,(in) which you don’t really over extended to understanding(phr.+gr.) the poem meaning.

Personally, I like the slow way, (in) which you really “connect” to the poem, reads(gr.) it a few times to understand the poem('s) meaning by you(ww.- on your) own, without any help. In this way, you can improve your skills by sitting and understand(ww.+gr.) the poem, and then this ability will help you understand other poems in the future.(Give an example of a skill you develop this way)

The problem on(ww.) the slow way, is that you analyze the poem by yourself, (Start a new sentence) from your point of view, you(ww.-your) analyze(ww.-analysis) is right, but technically you analyze(ww.) might be wrong, and no one will be there to tell you that your(ww.) have been mistaken.

To conclude, from my point of view, the slow way is better than the fast way, but the slow way have(gr.) disadvantages that make the poem analyze(wo.+ww.) harder and you have to consider the fact that you might (be) wrong.
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Not bad. But still needs work. The point is not just reading poems slowly or quickly, it is all about experiencing them through your senses and feelings, making it more fun to learn poetry.
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Daphna

post reading

4/10/1764

Equality Between Classes 

Hello editor,
My name is Eliot and I want to talk about things that concern me, like the inequality between classes, and the fact that women do not have the right to speak and express their feelings in public.

First, I think that the "myth" that men are better than women and deserve better rights and more respect, is just wrong. 
 Women deserve exactly the same rights and respect that men deserve.

Second, it is very humiliating to force someone to pretend to be a guy, just beacuse she wants to be a poet. I believe that I can be a successful poet, but I want the world to know me as a woman and not a man.

To conclude, I think that the thinking of the population must change, beacuse women deserved to be respected by men.
women should get the rights to express themself on public without changing thier's names and hide their's real personality.

count that day lost - Bridging

George Eliot was born in 1819 in Warwickshire, in Victorian England.  The Victorian age was characterized by huge gaps between the classes. Eliot was one of the leading writers of that age, who tried to minimize the gap between the classes.

That information completely changed my understanding of the poem. First, I thought that the poem was modern. I thought that by saying:  "brought the sunshine to one face" the writer meant  minor actions, like helping your brother clean the room or helping your mother cook dinner.

Now that I know the poem is very old and was written at a different era, I know that the poet didint relate too small actions. she meant that every day you need to help to improve the society and help the lower classes, who lived in extreme poverty at that time.

To conclude, the information changed my whole perspective about the poem, and helped me undrerstand that the poet meant different things than I thought she meant.

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Daphna