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:
- Week 1 Booksnaps Equity 2017/10/23
- Equity Discussion Uprising 2017/10/26 (absent)
- Week 2 Booksnaps Equity 2017/10/30
- Week 3 Booksnaps Equity 2017/11/02
- Equity Discussion 2 2017/11/07
- Character TIEA Equity 1 2017/11/08
- Discussion Turbonotes 1 2017/11/10
- Sketchnoting Uprising 2017/11/13
- TIEA Equity, Uprising 2017/11/14
- Media PSA 2017/11/29
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.
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Protecting children from exploitation they have rights to be educated.— Anderson Chen_22 (@AndersonChen_22) 2017年11月18日
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.