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Sample classroom literature lesson: the abstract and technical analysis of a story
What makes this article locally
interesting is that during the important school events, a group of secondary
school teachers convened and ostensibly made a "unified format in teaching
the abstract and technical analysis" of a story as shown below.
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The core in story-and-drama-analysis
stems from a local interest story of personal experiences based on literary
works in Philippine literature. There are full-length interpretative analyses
in story-plot, drama-synopsis and other fictional and nonfictional literary
pieces. Interpolated herewith are thus compacted information and functions of
abstract and technical analysis.
I will give a sample of a topic
outline regarding the abstract and technical analysis in Philippine context. It
will serve as a guide for the teachers and students in analyzing the plot,
theme, point of view, story interpretation, symbolism and allegory, form and
structure, and moral of the story. Here is the topic outline:
I.
Abstract
II. Technical Analysis
A. Plot
1. Exposition
2. Involution
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Denouement
The abstract and technical analysis
are just the benchmarks in analyzing a particular literary piece, either that
literary piece is a short story, a novel or a drama. If you want to expand the
level of interpretation and the level of higher thinking skills, you may use
additional literary parts to come by clearer and more emphasized
technically-analyzed stories.
This is a modern approach to study
literature because the readers get pleasure and contentment in entering a new
world so diverse from our present world. The readers obtain pleasure of reading
and they obtain pleasure of having their emotions and imaginations stimulated.
Most significantly, however, they
come to know the nature of man. As a matter of fact, man has a dual nature: he
is a dreamer of dreams and a doer of deeds.
His dreams and aspirations are jotted down for documentation and his
accomplishments are recorded at the same time. And when this is done in vogue
which is beyond mere statement of facts, then it becomes literature.
For literature is history in itself,
it further points out the literary works which help in pronouncing to us,
especially in all aspects of human life. The Filipino has a passion for the
true, the good and the beautiful. In Philippine literature concepts, I would
like to share with you the published statements and I reprint: "Man can
find it in the sanctuary of Mother Nature." Truth and goodness prevail in
all aspects of human life. In his beatific faith and vision, in his love
relationships, in his rationalized convictions, man discovers beauty, truth,
and virtue. Despite the manifestations of evil, life is fundamentally good.
All these things or scenarios are
sustained by human experiences throughout the world. To reiterate, literature
is history in itself because it records man's life--everything about him is
part of literary works that must be depicted throughout the analytic duration
of study. To expand more of the story as far as technical analysis is
concerned, here are the additional but optional devices and genres to entail
further in the study for in-depth analysis:
B. Theme
C. Point of View
1. First Person Point of View
2. Second Person Point of View
3. Third Person Point of View
a. Limited Point of View
b. Central Point of View
c. Omniscient Point of View
D. Story Levels of Interpretation
1. Literal Level
2. Interpretative Level
3. Evaluative Level
E. Symbolism and Allegory
F. Form and Structure
G. Moral of the Story
H. Questions with Answers
I. Schema of the Story
J. Relevance to Education
K. Justification
To give important values of abstract
and technical analysis in analyzing a story, explanations are herein provided
for clarity, emphasis and helpful guides to determine the uses and functions of
each part.
Abstract should be written in a third person point of view (see
example of the abstract in the 3rd person point of view on the other
page below). It is a shortened version of a longer piece of writing that
highlights the major points covered, briefly depicting the content and scope of
writing, and reviews the writing's contents in encapsulated form. It is not
long and it is only about a paragraph. Six sentences are enough for writing an
abstract.
Technical analysis refers to thinking in a conditioned pattern analyzing
comprehensively the uses and functions of the plotted parts of the story. It is
the study of literary charts and indicators to determine the progress and
chronological order of the story with the use of plotted schema and techniques
to examine various aspects of literary levels of interpretation.
Plot is the story line or the structure of a story. It is a
series of meaningful events in the story like for example, you have the
exposition where all the characters, setting, language and style are recognized
and you find the involution or rising action where it may raise to another part
and then there is the climax which is where the excitement or interest takes
place which where they work out the problem and second to last there is the
falling action which commences by degrees to end the story and last there is
the denouement or resolution which ends the story.
Exposition is the background information on the characters, setting,
language and style explained at the beginning of the story. It will often have
information about events that transpired before the story commenced. It is
often the very first part of the plot.
Involution of a story is the series of events that build up and create
rising action or tension. This tension is an outcome of the fundamental
conflict that exists and makes the story interesting. The types of conflict are
man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. God and man vs. himself.
Climax is when the situation or major part finally gets excited
and resolved. It is the turning point and it is where something unexpected will
occur and things start going to the falling action and resolution of the story.
Falling action is done after the excitement or turning point of an event;
the falling action can seem something of an anti-climax and it is the sequence
of events that follow the climax and end in the denouement. This is in contrast
to the involution which leads up to the plot's climax. It can always be found
after the climax when it goes down until it reaches the denouement.
Denouement refers to the events following the climax of a drama or
novel in which such a resolution or clarification happens. It is the conclusion
or final resolution of a dramatic or narrative plot. Denouement is also the
resulting outcome from the events and problems throughout the entire story. The
ending part of a story is sad, happy, adventurous, comedic or tragic.
Theme is the notion that becomes apparent to the reader when he
comes to the ending part of a story. It is a message, a broad concept or moral
of a story wherein the message itself indicates life, society or human nature.
It is the insight that is worth-keeping and sharing with in-depth analysis in
analyzing a meaningful event of a story. It can also be taken into account as
subject of discourse, discussion, meditation or composition to be banked on a
story.
Point of view refers to the angle from which a story is told. It is the
position which the narrator takes in the story or the perspective from which a
speaker recounts a narrative. Every author has a genre in apprising or telling
a story. He may use his character to relate the incidents or he may tell the
story himself. The kinds of point of view are first person point of view,
second person point of view, third person point of view (limited, central and
omniscient).
Story interpretation is based solely on literal level, interpretative level and
evaluative level. It is the act of interpreting something as expressed in an
artistic story performance from something denotative and from something
metaphorical or evaluative. The portion of a text will be extracted literally
from a book and will be expounded on it according to implicit standpoints.
Symbolism and allegory may have been used by the teachers as classroom artists since the
beginning of time. Symbols are used to represent abstract concept instead of a
literal meaning. They will point out as regards the importance of a test
symbolically and the allegory is something like a comparison or contrast, more
on spiritual aspects. In other words, it has moral, social, religious, or
political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract notions. Thus an
allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. To give more examples of an
allegory, say for instance, the apple that Adam receives from Eve is symbolic
of the "knowledge of God and Evil" and is thus allegorical. The
serpent is often read as an allegory signifying the tempter, or true evil. In
the New Testament, the Good Samaritan is an allegory representing the
right thinking and compassionate person. This is a precise rhetorical use of an
allegory .
Form and structure of a story will determine the overview or perspective of
the entire story. Thus, the form can be a comedy, a drama, a narrative or an
adventure while the structure is something that recounts and segregates the
major events to encapsulate the whole story in a chronological order with
prescribed "complete sentences" (from 5 to 10 sentences).
Moral of the story is like giving something, a very important lesson which is
extracted implicitly from a book. The moral values are important for the kids
to learn: fairytale and happy endings with romance and riches are nice but some
family movies and adventures have the best example for bonding together that
can further give a moral to the members of the family. Likewise, the story is
moral if it is spiritually injected with some values and inspiring lessons--a
few sentences to make the teachers and students publicly known. The teacher
will give insightful ideas to his students about morality according to the
norms of society and vantage points.
In giving the opinions about the
story, it is understood that the reader must fathom the story precisely based
on the levels of interpretation and the abstract itself. The abstract is not
too long and it must be based on the third person point of view with limited
six sentences in order to come up with a unified and logical paragraph. In
reading a full-length story, the reader must underscore the major points only,
especially in a series of meaningful events in the story just to come by what
we called synopsis. After getting the gist of the story, the technical story
analysis will follow. Make sure that the sequence can't be interchanged in
order to have a smooth sailing and orderly manner in expounding on a
"rising action or involution" of a story. The readers will only
differ in the story levels of interpretation, especially in the plot.
Finally, these are all the devices,
techniques and genres in analyzing a story using the technical format and
approach. If you think these are helpful, you may press the button for like
to indicate that this article helps you also in fathoming a full-length story.
Here are the samples of a story based on the aforecited format guide.
I have two samples of the stories
submitted to me by my students in first year level of a science high school.
I. Abstract
Story 1:
In a story entitled "The Piece
of String," Maitre Hauchecorne picks up a piece of string that gets him
into a mess and a world of troubles where he is also criticized unrelentingly
for having picked up a piece of string. He has been blamed for picking up a
wallet instead of his small innocent piece of string which eventually leads to
his death; consequently, he dies from the "injustice pressure" of
society, particularly to his detractors, his enemies. His non-ability to handle
not being forgiven also contributes to his death and the people are responsible
for Hauchecorne's death because they did not believe him. Monsieur Malandain,
Hauchecorne's rival, told the authorities that Hauchecorne had picked up a lost
wallet. The mayor questioned him but did not believe that he had picked up a
piece of string out of the mud. The mayor said that Hauchecorne could not
persuade him that Monsieur Malandain, who is a man of trust, mistook that piece
of string for a wallet.
Story 2:
Miss Brill is set at the Jardins
Publiques in France. Every Sunday Miss Brill looks forward to getting dressed
up and visiting the park where she could enjoy people watching. Her weekly
visits to the park are undoubtedly the highlight of her week, bringing her
great joy and satisfaction. There are many illusions in this story and it shows
three diverse illusions where Miss Brill uses to make her happy and how her
reality is shattered at the end of the story by a chance remark.
II. Technical Analysis
A. Plot:
1. Exposition
a. Characters (from story 1):
Maitre Hauchecorne, of Breaute -- a
humble peasant
Maitre Malandain -- the harness
maker at Goderville
Maitre Houlbreque, of Manneville --
a woman who lost her black leather pocketbook
containing five hundred francs and business papers
containing five hundred francs and business papers
Characters (from story 2):
Round characters
--Miss Brill is a middle-aged,
unmarried English woman who lives alone in a small apartment in France; she
teaches English to students and reads the newspaper to an elderly man several
times a week
--The Band
Flat characters
--The young and romantic couple
approaches the bench from which Miss Brill is watching the crowd
--The woman in the ermine toque who
has been observed by Miss Brill in the park symbolizes the title character
herself and her rebuff by a man in a gray suit foreshadowing Miss Brill's
rejection later in the story
--gentleman in gray
--boy and girl who sat where the old
couple had been staying
--many other passers-by
b. Setting
(from story 1):
Place -- it happened at the market place at Goderville
Time -- it took place during "market day" in the
afternoon
Setting (from story 2):
Place -- it took place in the little
dark room as compared to a cupboard; the beautiful park
Time -- it occurred in the regular
Sunday afternoon
c. Language
(from story 1) -- modern but British style of English language
Language (from story 2) -- the text
is written in the modernist mode
d. Style (from
story 1) -- it was a narrative type of story
Style (from story 2) -- the story is
written in formal style as Miss Brill presents the interior monologue of a
woman on a Sunday trip to the park whose pleasant illusions are shattered when
reality infringes on her thoughts
2. Involution (from story 1)
-- man vs. man because Maitre Hauchecorne was accused of taking the pocketbook
by Maitre Malandain
Involution (from story 2) -- man vs.
himself because Miss Brill is struggling in a way that she can be beyond normal
and the things what she can do to come by her future
3. Climax (from story 1) --
the turning point was about the next day in the afternoon where Marius Paumelle
a farm hand of Maitre Breton, a market gardener at Ymauville returned the
pocketbook and its contents to Maitre Holbreque, of Mainneville. This man said,
indeed, that he had found it on the road, but not knowing how to read, he had
carried it home and given it to his master. The news spread out to the
community; Maitre Hauchecorne was informed and he started off at once and began
to relate his story up to the end'"he was triumphant!
Climax (from story 2) -- Miss Brill
thinks of herself as an actress in a play because it gives a great pleasure as
well as exhilaration as she thinks she really is. She thinks of the sky and the
park as the set of the play; thus, she believes that all of the park patrons
weren't only the audience but also the actors in a great play. When she sees a
dog that happens to be walking across the park, she thinks that it is a theatre
dog. She also believes that somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been
there for her Sunday performance, and she would be greatly missed. Actually,
Miss Brill is not an actress instead she is the one that many people are
enjoying in the park with their peak of enthusiasm about her.
4. Falling action (from story
1) -- it took place when the rumors circulated that Maitre Hauchecorne gave the
wallet to the other man who spread the news to the community. They accused him
of having had the pocketbook with him and brought back by an accomplice, by a
confederate.
Falling action (from story 2) --
just at that moment, a boy and a girl came and sat down together where the old
couple had been staying. They were beautifully dressed and in love. The hero
and heroine just arrived from the father's yacht, made that soundlessly singing
and that trembling smile. Miss Brill's regret did not stop her from
surrendering; her illusions came crashing down around her when a young couple
makes a rude remark through Miss Brill's actions'"we see how her fantasy
is destroyed.
5. Denouement (from story 1)
-- the ending part was melancholic because Maitre Hauchecorne died trying to
prove himself "not guilty."
Denouement (from story 2) -- it was
somewhat imaginative, mysterious but happy because Miss Brill panned out in
passing the baker's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room and
sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat there for a long time. The box that the
fur came out was on the bed; she unclasped the necklet quickly without looking
and laid it inside but when she put the lid on, she thought she heard someone
crying.
Continuation from story 1:
B. Theme -- man's innocence
The theme of the story is proving a
man's innocence. Don't judge a man if he's guilty or innocent by the way he
acts and by the way he looks.
C. Point of view -- the point
of view of the story is the first person narrative mode because the narrator
addresses the character as "I" and the narrator feels like he is a
character in the story.
If you think the article
"Philippine literature: abstract and technical analysis" may find it
helpful and interesting to you, you can still keep track of the other article
"Philippine literature: abstract and technical analysis part 2" as an
avenue and a continuation of each part as particularly mentioned in the
preceding texts.
Glossary of universal educational terms with literary implications, emphasis and understanding
College students are required to research on the internet
for the glossary of terms or list of literary
terms with expanded explicit and implicit meanings, write term papers or
assigned topics to develop at the end of every semester. These tasks are not at
all difficult to carry out if one has a full comprehension of what really
glossary of terms and phrases to utilize, where information can be acquired,
and how learning materials may be interpreted. Explicit and implicit meanings
are indicators of word sources of data used in research. The researcher must
know how to use glossary of terms either in surfing over the internet or
printed materials. Here are the important educational terms and phrases, along with literary implications, emphasis and
understanding .
Research
procedures of macro-skills refer to the
efficacy and interventions of teaching-learning process between the respondents
and teacher wherein all instructions are specifically used as interventions of
the study by the researcher based on the teaching-learning performance.
Oral
quizzing points out to giving the grades of students
during daily and graded recitations.
Objective
examination is a kind of exam which is
objective in nature and which is significant in the sense that when two or more
persons scoring the same examination paper apart from one another will acquire
the same test results.
Eclectic
motivation gives emphasis to the importance of
strategies in teaching wherein the teacher should not be utilizing one
technique of motivation at a time and he must be utilizing as many strategies
or techniques as possible at any given time.
Cognitive
learning stresses out verbal and ideational
learning which is also the acquisition of savvy, facts and information,
concepts, comprehension, rationalization and the like.
Teaching the essence of education to students educates the
values in the real sense that the learners with different backgrounds and
personalities have one goal, one mission and one vision, and it imparts
knowledge to them as students regardless of age, gender and race.
Language
skills’ acquisition requires the mastery of a learner
in terms of educational system that takes literally years to learn; in
addition, it requires on the part of the teacher skill in noting the
difficulties of the learners in both oral and written English, presuming that
the students have mastered the listening skill while still in their elementary
years.
Language
facility raises student’s intelligence as
measured by intelligence tests; and for this reason, the language facility in
speaking and in writing is a must for the educator who has to find ways to
teach all his students properly because if the students are taught properly,
the latter can learn skills and concepts necessary to function in modern
society.
Classroom
management is concerned with the effective
teaching and safety of every learner inside and outside of the classroom,
including the administration of activities with special reference to diverse
problems in educational settings; in addition, it is composed of the six
educational elements such as discipline, democratic techniques, use of supplies
and reference materials, physical features of the classroom, general
housekeeping and social relationship of students.
Language learning is indispensable on the part of learners who undergo rigid studies of the language, but teaching involves much more than the savvy of methods and other significant learning approaches in acquiring a particular language.
Decision
making is regarded as an outcome of mental
processes leading to the selection of a course of action among several choices
with different points of view, thus fulfilling every decision making that
produces a final result in the educational learning process.
Multiple
intelligences model is one of the contributory factors
in panning out through a variety of learning style models that have been
proposed in general education with follow-up inquiry by language educators in
order to enhance, dredge up and discover the potentialities and capabilities of
every learner in the classroom.
English
for special purposes is one the desirable goals to
strive in language teaching and in general communicative competence; besides,
language teaching has a definite purpose, and the teachers themselves teach
only the requisite for a particular purpose, be it an occupation or business
English, or a domain which is English for Science and Technology.
Secondary freshmen are student-entrants of any learning institution to ameliorate learning based on the structured lessons, and they differ mentally according to the departmentalized lessons, advanced lessons presented, and general performance leading to their intellectual aspects of learning.
Students
with their macro-skills may refer to
the general aspect to grasp at the innovative teaching-learning approaches
shared to them not only by the teachers but also by the freshmen in terms of
the five (5) areas of English language teaching, namely, listening, speaking,
reading, writing and viewing as sequenced in the lessons.
Replication is a kind of answer coming from the students who would like
to share their notions about the topics given by the teacher and carry out the
tasks with direct way of replicating the questions based on what has been
transpired in the lessons.
Classroom
operations’ management may refer to the entire control and
operation of all classroom activities done by both the teachers and students.
Drill indicates a special activity in the classroom which has
intended solely for the teacher’s objective or goal in strengthening the
connections and bonds of a certain skill possessed by every student or person.
It is one of the techniques done by the teacher in carrying out the task. Drill
is one of the most widely utilized procedures in teaching.
Attention refers to the attitude of readiness for action to be
performed by both the teacher and students in the classroom; in addition, it
gives emphasis to the importance of a mental act or concentration of the mind’s
energy on an object or thought wherein the participants are directly involved
and they are ready to perform or answer the questions with ease and freedom.
Goals may refer to the aims of effective education, and these may
also be either general or specific, or may be either philosophical or
psychological.
Group
activity is a school activity carried on
cooperatively by a group of learners per subject, and it may perform or carry
out usually in constitution, dramatization, projects, essays, declamations,
speech choir, and so forth.
Teaching is the process of imparting knowledge or savvy to students
regardless of age, gender and race; in addition to teaching, it is the process
of directing, guiding, encouraging and stimulating learning activities in the
classroom wherein the students and subject teacher will exchange ideas
thoroughly of a certain topic that is being taught for a
day-lesson-plan-teaching.
Word
perception involves sensation with the eyes
that intermediately catch sight of the printed symbols and with the aid of
light rays that categorically strike the retina and other parts of the eyes
that move in a swift and well-coordinated manner, jumping from term to term or
word to word in a series of reading fixation.
Literal
comprehension refers clearly to the understanding
of facts or ideas extracted from the explicit or stated information given in
the text or the answer itself comes directly from a textbook with fixed
meaning.
Literature is the window for life and it bridges the readers from all
walks of life to the works of creative imagination. It is a soul-replica that
helps strengthen the readers' commitment to develop themselves by embracing
international ideals of value system, sociocultural awareness, as well as the
other aspects of universal heritage. It comes by diverse viewpoints,
definitions and uses of it, and it comes up with a unified "connotative
meaning" that literature is something that reflects society, makes us
think about ourselves and our society and allows us to enjoy language and
beauty. It is also used to describe anything from creative writing to more
literary, technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to
point out to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry,
drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or one
of the lower animals is spoken of or given abilities as if it were a person. It
also ascribes intelligence or emotion to abstract notions or inanimate things
to make the situation alive and kicking.
Derivation indicates the origin of a word which is called etymology
and it maybe twofold: 1) less commonly, a narrative account of how a word was
formed or was given its meaning; and 2) the foreign languages through which the
words evolved into English form. Thus, derivations are generally entered
between brackets near the beginning or at the end of the vocabulary entry. It
is the formation of a new word or stem from another word. It typically
occurs by the addition of an affix.
Abstract should be written in a third person point of view (see
example of the abstract in the 3rd person point of view). It is a
shortened version of a longer piece of writing that highlights the major points
covered, briefly depicting the content and scope of writing, and reviews the
writing's contents in encapsulated form. It is not long and it is only about a
paragraph. Six sentences are enough for writing an abstract.
Technical
analysis refers to thinking in a conditioned
pattern analyzing comprehensively the uses and functions of the plotted parts
of the story. It is the study of literary charts and indicators to determine
the progress and chronological order of the story with the use of plotted
schema and techniques to examine various aspects of literary levels of
interpretation.
Plot is the story line or the structure of a story. It is a
series of meaningful events in the story like for example, you have the
exposition where all the characters, setting, language and style are recognized
and you find the involution or rising action where it may raise to another part
and then there is the climax which is where the excitement or interest takes
place which where they work out the problem and second to last there is the
falling action which commences by degrees to end the story and last there is
the denouement or resolution which ends the story.
Exposition is the background information on the characters, setting,
language and style explained at the beginning of the story. It will often have
information about events that transpired before the story commenced. It is
often the very first part of the plot.
Involution of a story is the series of events that build up and create
rising action or tension. This tension is an outcome of the fundamental
conflict that exists and makes the story interesting. The types of conflict are
man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. God and man vs. himself.
Climax is when the situation or major part finally gets excited
and resolved. It is the turning point and it is where something unexpected will
occur and things start going to the falling action and resolution of the story.
Falling
action is done after the excitement or
turning point of an event; the falling action can seem something of an
anti-climax and it is the sequence of events that follow the climax and end in
the denouement. This is in contrast to the involution which leads up to the
plot's climax. It can always be found after the climax when it goes down until
it reaches the denouement.
Denouement refers to the events following the climax of a drama or
novel in which such a resolution or clarification happens. It is the conclusion
or final resolution of a dramatic or narrative plot. Denouement is also the
resulting outcome from the events and problems throughout the entire story. The
ending part of a story is sad, happy, adventurous, comedic or tragic.
Theme is the notion that becomes apparent to the reader when he
comes to the ending part of a story. It is a message, a broad concept or moral
of a story wherein the message itself indicates life, society or human nature.
It is the insight that is worth-keeping and sharing with in-depth analysis in
analyzing a meaningful event of a story. It can also be taken into account as
subject of discourse, discussion, meditation or composition to be banked on a
story.
Point
of view refers to the angle from which a
story is told. It is the position which the narrator takes in the story or the
perspective from which a speaker recounts a narrative. Every author has a genre
in apprising or telling a story. He may use his character to relate the
incidents or he may tell the story himself. The kinds of point of view are
first person point of view, second person point of view, third person point of
view (limited, central and omniscient).
Story
interpretation is based solely on literal level,
interpretative level and evaluative level. It is the act of interpreting
something as expressed in an artistic story performance from something
denotative and from something metaphorical or evaluative. The portion of a text
will be extracted literally from a book and will be expounded on it according
to implicit standpoints.
Symbolism
and allegory, the two words have been used by
the teachers as artists since the beginning of time. Symbols are used to
represent abstract concept instead of a literal meaning. They will point out as
regards the importance of a test symbolically and the allegory is something like
a comparison or contrast, more on spiritual aspects. In other words, it has
moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of
abstract notions. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal
meaning and a symbolic meaning. To give
more examples of an allegory, say for instance, the apple that Adam receives
from Eve is symbolic of the "knowledge of God and Evil" and is thus
allegorical. The serpent is often read as an allegory signifying the tempter,
or true evil. In the New Testament, the Good Samaritan is an allegory representing the
right thinking and compassionate person. This is a precise rhetorical use of an
allegory.
Form
and structure of a story will determine the
overview or perspective of the entire story. Thus, the form can be a comedy, a
drama, a narrative or an adventure while the structure is something that
recounts and segregates the major events to encapsulate the whole story in a
chronological order with prescribed "complete sentences" (from 5 to
10 sentences).
Moral
of the story is like giving something, a very
important lesson which is extracted implicitly from a book. The moral values
are important for the kids to learn: fairytale and happy endings with romance
and riches are nice but some family movies and adventures have the best example
for bonding together that can further give a moral to the members of the
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Why do we send our kids to school?
There are eight reasons why we send our kids to
school. In fact, each rationalization gives emphasis to the importance of education which can be offered only during
summer classes. By all accounts, it’s cool to be in school because it gives a
lot of advantages not only on the part of students but also on the part of
teachers. Being in school, especially during summer classes, deals with growth
and development of learning. Whether we like it or not, the advantage of going
to school is highly manifested on the zeal concerning the student’s learning
and teacher’s interest to impart knowledge to students.
There
are a lot of advantages why we allow our children to go to school during summer classes. The
educational system will depend upon the styles that cater to the needs of
students, and the school administrators and teachers themselves who can offer
quality of education to those students who also want to take up summer class
for their own advantage.
As a matter of fact, education in any place of the world regardless of cultures and beliefs may vary from curriculum offerings, but the universal outcome is to offer quality of education for the masses in order for them to be productive propagators of knowledge acquired through education.
Education
is very important to all of us. It is the same as the summer class which gives
an advantageous learning to the students. And the students must prioritize
their study, not to focus on other things that bother them every now and then
like relationship, playing computer-games, etc. because learning in school is
their weapon to come by their dreams in the future. Having obtained high grades
helps them land a job easily without hassles.
The
rationale is that the manager of a firm and the supervisors, who are
tasked by the general manager to perform manpower operations that a person is going to apply someday want to see your grades first before they let you get
hired and be part of the team. So, getting high grades can help you gauge your
intellectual prowess among the other applicants.
Summer
class is a great advantage to secure your future grades because it helps you
learn in advance of all the lessons, whatever topics that you may get from the
regular classes. As the saying goes, “Education is the key to success.” Here
are some 8 top reasons why we enroll our children to summer class:
1. Lessons will be taught in advance. There is a benefit of learning in advance because the lessons
that you have not learned from regular classes will be taught in summer
classes. All the students will have the chance to learn at their own pace and
advantage.
The teachers will do their best to offer everything so that the
students will have their advanced knowledge of the lessons being taught to them
by the teachers, regardless of subjects. The more you attend the classes the
more you learn the lessons with lots of exercises and reinforcement activities.
That’s why other parents want their children to go to school because of
educational benefits that they might get from attending summer classes.
2. Continuous learning is well-defined for future studies. Sound principles of continuous learning are formulated from carefully observed facts or objectively gauged outcomes which are common to a series of similar experiences; as such, the learners must be carefully differentiated from the assumptions of so-called well-defined armchair philosophy for future studies which are made up largely of purely theoretical principles not based on experience, reality, investigation or experimentation.
2. Continuous learning is well-defined for future studies. Sound principles of continuous learning are formulated from carefully observed facts or objectively gauged outcomes which are common to a series of similar experiences; as such, the learners must be carefully differentiated from the assumptions of so-called well-defined armchair philosophy for future studies which are made up largely of purely theoretical principles not based on experience, reality, investigation or experimentation.
Learning is the core for
progress, and it paves the way for future studies through vital installation of
inventions and breakthroughs leading for the intellectual amelioration of
students and progress of one’s country. Through this fundamental core, the
students will be given an opportunity to express what they stand for and what
they learn based on advanced program. Only the summer class can put the
skepticism to reality, wherein everyone gets prepared about the lined-up topics
to be learned in the future.
3. Meeting with new faces – introducing and establishing
rapport with one another. There are new faces (classmates from other schools)
you can encounter during summer classes. In the first day of meeting, the
teacher will commence by introducing himself about educational attainment,
family background, etc. and the rest will follow. Self-introduction is very
important. It will guide you to know further with one another – your family
background, your previous school, your age, residence and ambition in life.
Establishing rapport will take center stage along with the ongoing
introduction. All the students will attempt to establish harmonious
relationships as the classes continue until they finish learning for the entire
duration of study. Likewise, it’s one way to gain more friends with a new
learning experience.
4. Expressing one’s talent and creativity
inside the classroom. Students will learn how to be creative in
everything they do. The application of knowledge doesn’t mean it only happens
inside the classroom, but also it gives an advantage outside of the school
premises, especially at home. If the students have the talents, the multiple
intelligences of Dr. Howard Gardner will apply.
The teacher will
check what appropriate intelligences that the students may excel in order for
them to harness their talents and skills. Summer class will bring hopes to
students who can expose their talents with utmost confidence to the best
ability they can achieve … everything will be learned through step-by-step
learning and expressing one’s ideas regarding their hidden potentialities must
be given full support during summer classes.
5. Scholarship grants, discounts of matriculation fees and
other privileges. Most of the schools offer scholarship grants to the poor
but deserving students. Others will give slashed discounts (20% to 50%) if you
attend their enhancement classes, even though you pass their entrance tests.
The school administrators will also offer some privileges once the
students have complied with all the requirements in order for them to qualify
as academic entrants to their school and eventually pass the tests to avail of
scholarship programs. Again, the situations will vary from one country to another
country. But, most of the schools resort to such scholarship offerings for the
benefits of students who want to study in their school.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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