English G8

• Surface learning


  Merely memorizing
• Proverbs


  Short and pithy (concise) statements
• Proverbs express the truth except for "which month of the year has 28 days?"
• Proverbs


  • You do not become a chief simply by sitting on a big stool
• "Which month of the year has 28 days?" is not a proverb
• Expository


  Raises awareness and facts about societal issues by weighing facts and ideas. Compare and to inform
• Expository


  • Used for cause and effects, non-fictions, and facts
• Recounts events


  Narrative (tells stories and recounts events). Entertains the readers. For personal essays and auto-biography
• Journalistic


  Informs about different types of events and facts. To write news reports or newspapers or magazines
• Persuasive


  Encourages readers to change their perspective to your point of view to take action towards transformation
• Brainstorming


  Talk to others and share your ideas
• Freewriting


  Writing continuously for a short period, not stoping to gather ideas, check spelling, or to polish your grammar to not forget your ideas
• Clustering


  Connecting words or phrases that related to the subject. Also known as WEBBING
• Active voice


  The subject is also the doer of the action
• Passive voice


  The subject is the receiver of the action
• Passive voice


  • The grass is cut
• Gesture


  Expresses emotion when moving a part of your body
• Phrasing


  Dividing statements into units
• Rising and falling intonation


  Two variations of intonation
• Stress


  Emphasis that you put on a syllable
• Stress can be on the middle content or on both syllables
• Tao Kim Hai


  Wrote the story "The cock"
• The cock


  • Why is the cock portrayed as a villain? Because it exposed the hidden relationship of the 2 characters
  • Short story
• Beliefs


  Personal opinions
• First point of view

  The narrator is part of the story (I, we, us)
• Third point of view

  The narrator is not included in the story (he/she, his/her, them)
• Faulty point of view

  Unnecessary shifts in point of view
• Introduction


  To establish a connection and interest to understand
• Personification


  Assigns human characteristics to non-human entities
• Story map


  Graphic organizer that sequence the important events of a story
• Aesop


  Author of "the city mouse and the country mouse"
• Listening to Blackpink is not a goal of effective listening
• Yoshiko Uchida


  The author of "the wise old woman"
• "The wise old woman" took place in Japan
• The emperor's demands


  • A single piece of silk thread that can be threaded through the hole
  • A box containing one thousand ropes of ash
  • A drum that sounds without being beaten
• The emperor realizes the wisdom of the old woman and withdraws his demands - how the events in "the wise old woman" ultimately unfold
• A drum that sounds without being beaten is the 3rd and last demand of the emperor
• The central problem or struggle faced by the characters

  The demands of the emperor
• Man vs. society


  Type of conflict in "the wise old woman"
• Misplaced modifiers and ambiguous statements


  • He boarded a moving train
  • She transported a feline to a veterinarian
  • Running down the street
  • The pizza
  • The lion
  • The fish