Month: November 2017

2017-2018 Unit Reflection

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On November,27th,2017, We completed Language and literature unit 2, novel study, through this unit, we explored about novels, Equity and Equality, Equity and Equality are completely different things, Equity is changing level or condition based on their abilities. For Example, due to their lesser abilities or conditions, such as not enough height to watch a soccer game, then they can stand on a higher platform in order to be able to watch the game. However, equality is that everyone stands on the same level stage.

Through this unit, we completed several activities and projects in order to get better at understanding, analyze, and summarize stories, Here’s what we’ve completed:

The book I was reading was Uprising by Margaret, Peterson. Haddix, “Uprising” focuses on women’s rights and justice for female workers/lower classes, through BookSnaps activities, discussions, and TIEAs, I improved at understanding and analyze the story, I learned a better way to analyze stories, which is TIEA, in which “T” means topic sentence, “I” means introduction evidence, E means evidence and A means Analysis. using TIEA helps to organize what we learned and what does the author what to represent about. Character TIEA helps us to organize characters in the story, transformation, mood.etc, for example, in my story, Bella, an immigrant from Italy, transformed from a fearful girl to a brave young woman who overcame all the fears. I couldn’t get used to TIEAs. However, after few practices, I became better at organizing stories using TIEA. 

We’ve done three discussions for Uprising, the purpose of this is to help us get better at analyzing stories, the way I analyze this book was to make a document and keep track of important parts in the story, quotes that are worth quoting.etc, overall, It actually helped me a lot. Over the last discussion, I felt like I should have discussed more with my groupmates. After the final discussion, we started doing “Sketchnoting” for our books. simply put, the book was talking about three young women who tried to abolish sexism and racism.  I think sketchnoting is a good and creative way to analyze a story, it suppose to be more understandable, I really enjoyed Sketchnoting.

For the final summative, we did Media PSA (AKA Public Service Advertising) my research topic was CHILD LABOR, the reason for why it was chosen as my topic is due to the book “Uprising”, Uprising talks about teens around 16 work in factory, still many countries need to abolish child labor, worldwide 218 child laborers are in employment, which is a big issue in education. because most of them are early school leavers, early school leavers cannot be educated, which would cause them having a hard time to find a job, and their children cannot be educated either due to the economic issue. I did a video using PowToon for the final project, I think making videos is a good way to spread concepts, It is easily spread on social media, I got 115 likes and 66 retweets in 2 days, I think video making helps us learn more about our chosen topics, because if we want to make a PSA video, of course, we needed detailed research results, through making video, we could also learn many new things that we didn’t know previously.

Overall, I think this Unit helped me a lot in analyzing, understanding, and organizing stories, we had done so many activities that did improve our skills, becoming more skillful based on novel study.

 

 

 

 

Equity Summative

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Child Labor:

Child Labor is one of the worst problems worldwide, still many countries need to abolish Child Labor, mostly appear in developing countries. Worldwide 218 million children between 5-17 years are in employment, among them, 152 million are victims of child labor; almost half of them, over 100 million child laborers work in hazardous in agriculture, mining.

https://youtu.be/CQo7aHpcOSU

TIEA Summary (Topic sentence, Introduction, Evidence, Analysis)

Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, focuses on women’s right, Equality, and Equity, What’s the difference between Equity and Equality is equality denotes that everyone is at the same level. However, Equity doesn’t mean everyone is on the same level, but equity is everyone stands on different level according to their abilities, so they can all do the same thing.

In Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix uses examples of injustice towards women, but they eventually overcame their fears and decided to stand up for women’s right.

As they overcame their fears to this “Scary Place” they would finally willing to protest, their anger led these young women to a strike, so they started the strike.

“We will not be stupid girls!” “We will not be useless girls!” We will not be powerless girls!” (233)

Haddix’s choice to make female workers felt powerless and useless by examples of injustice which eventually triggered them, three young women, Bella, Yetta, and Jane led the union, they  believed in women’s right, they believe there is a thing called gender equality, they think every woman deserves respect, every woman needs to be treated equally, they became adamant on this point and try to stop how people view them as useless people.

MLA Citation:

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Uprising. Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011.

Reflection: I did well on providing examples and evidence, because my evidence does support my topic sentence, I think i also did well Topic sentence, it provides substantial identification and explanation of the content, context, language, structure, technique, and style, However, it is missing the connection between concept and the story where I have to improve on.

What I need to improve on is based on Analysis, because I added new evidence into my analysis which was unnecessary, also the sentence was too long and difficult to understand.

Uprising Discussion:

We discussed the book “Uprising” quotes, questions, techniques.etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mTu6NLJQig

Uprising Sketch-noting

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 Uprising is a work of historical story by Margaret Peterson Haddix.The author Margaret Peterson Haddix portrays example and quotes of injustice towards female workers. three helpless, powerless young women change the U.S by their determination. they won respect and fairness for females workers.

three young women immigrated to New York illegally, Bella met her cousin Pietro, she loved Pietro, but then, Pietro left New York without notifying, Bella waited there for a long time. However, she met Yetta and Rahel, two stubborn strikers, they believe women have rights, as time passes, Bella felt she was being treated unfairly, she felt the injustice, she barely got paid due to many excuses from the bosses, and the Luciano family clamied that they didn’t send money to Bella’s faimly in Italy, instead, they used the money to heal their babies, her anger led her to a union, in the union, she met Yetta and Rahel, they also met a wealthy girl called Jane, she is completely different than general society women, Jane wanted her freedom, together, they produced resonate, Jane supported the union with economical support, unfortunately, as time passes, Rahel quitted the union, she didn’t belive that women can be treated fairly, she married her English teacher, but Yetta didn’t quit, she still belive in equality, her determination was more than ever,they earned a little respects through strikes. However, it wasn’t enough, women were still being treated unfairly, unfortunately, on March, 25th in 1911, at Triangle factory, a fire killed Jane and Yetta, and another 144 workers. As the first chapter mentioned, Mrs.Linvingston is Bella, fortunately, she got married, and had 2 babies, and they are named Yetta, and Jane, their spirits were passed down to her children, and her family would keep their passions forever.