21st Century

• Reading approach


  A way or a method that will help students solve their problem in reading
• Reading approaches


  • Skimming
  • Scanning
  • Extensive Reading
• Skimming


  Done at a speed three to four times faster than normal reading
• Scanning


  Quickly reading a text to get the summary of it
• Extensive reading


  An approach that takes a large amount of reading
• Reading


  An action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud
• Approach


  A way of dealing with something
• A reading approach is a way or a method that will help students solve their problem in reading
• Here are some related information to easily understand the stories and passages from your module
• Shimenawa


  Rice straw or hemp, festooned in some sacred landmark
• Onigiri


  A rice ball, which may be wrapped with seaweed and could be similar to a sandwich
• Main characters


  • Jiro
  • Kazuya
  • Mother
  • Uncle
• The one telling the story was Jiro's sibling
• The setting of the story was in Japan
• Family tradition


  Close family ties
• Culture


  Eating properly
• What Kazuya did to Jiro

  1. Stood up and roughly pulled Jiro out of his chair

  2. Wrapped a rope around Jiro and pushed him to the trunk of an oak tree

  3. Tied a thick knot at the end
• Kazuya did that kind of punishment to Jiro

  Because Jiro was not eating properly, and Kazuya said he needs to learn to be a man
• The incident possibly had a positive effect on Jiro, as he always intuitively eats everything on his plate