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Stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories-Frank Smith. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life-Author Unknown.

Photo of the Month: Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines

Photo of the Month: Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines: Charge of the Education Doctor singles out this MINGLANILLA CHURCH PHOTO for the month of January, 2014. This church was established by the Augustinians in 1878. The present church was established two years later, with light materials. Its stone convent was constructed from 1877 to 1886. . That's why it is considered Picture of the Month by the 10 groups of students who voted for the photo.

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Charge of the Education Doctor: Why do we send our kids to school?

Charge of the Education Doctor: Why do we send our kids to school?

Friday, April 27, 2012

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
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 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. Read more...http://voices.yahoo.com/list-literary-terms-expanded-9109199.html?cat=37

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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. 

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.

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