Newspaper about my interview

Pimmit  Center   Newspaper

Citizens greet the new President outside the White House. President Hannah Promises to Put Schools First In her first press conference, President Hannah presented a balanced budget to the American people. The first item discussed in the press conference was the President's first priority in the budget. " I know there are a lot of necessities regarding the education circumstances improvement. We plan to catch up with the level of private school system through investing a large portions of budgets to the public education system," the President said. The President's budget called for 39% to fund education; 8% to support the military; 17% to be spent on crime prevention; 17% to fund the environment; and 21% to finance health care. The President explained why less money was given to certain budget items. " We`ve established the storng military system till now. It is the time to chage priority of using budgets," the President explained. President Hannah Names Top AdvisorsDuring the news conference, the President also named her advisors, selecting Francesca Famous, Dr. Teresa Thermometer, and Thomas Teacher. " I need Dr. Teresa and Thomas, for they are all prominent experts in their areas where our countury has to be reformed. I expect them advices for setting up the policies. In case of Francesca, I admire her as  one of my strong supporters. She always helps me not have any financial hardships. I could avoid vending my philosophy while leading policies in favor of her supports," the President announced. On concluding her press conference, the newly sworn-in President of the United States continued to perform her first full day of duties. http://www.scholastic.com/kids/president/game.htm

Reflection about the class on 17/Feb.

I learned  "K W L","K W H  L" today.


(This image is  from google)



My teacher introduced this concept before starting the textbook.

I became aware of this important and useful strategy which I can apply to my study
thanks to her teachings.  I got lack of sleep last night. However, I felt it was
worth participating to my class. Lucky day!


Procedure:

1. K—What students KNOW about the topic to be studied.
2. W—What students WANT to know about the topic.
3. L—What students have LEARNED.
4. K-W-H-L<. The H encourages students to ask themselves "How can I go about finding more information about this subject?" They are encouraged to do additional research, ask an expert, do an experiment, or use the Internet.>

Book "Revolution is not a Dinner Party"--Changing one's destiny

This writing is the result of an assignment, "If you were to change one's life/destiny,

How would you change it?".

I know life is full of hardships. But the main character,  a young girl, overcame her adversaries.

Nonetheless, I  believe the world should protect all innocent children from furious struggles.

Making up her destiny under my imagination, I would like to express my sympathy and love to her.

 A character "Ling", who is nine-year-old girl, is a narrator of this novel. She looks back to her childhood  from
the summer of 1972, when the Cultural Revolution started to flare up(heat up).
Her life had been very comfortable with her parents who were  both dedicated doctors. After Comrade Li, one of Mao's political officers, occupied a room in their apartment, Ling faced a whirl of life hardships. Her affectionate neighbor was forced into jail and disappeared.  Soon, Ling  feared for the safety of her family. Her daddy was arrested and vanished.
Nonetheless, she grew up while enduring her tough destiny in school and at home.  More than four years afterwards, she noticed the world changed back and her sufferings came to end with the return of her father.

(Below is the parts which I changed)

After her daddy disappeared, she was  determined to excape to Hong Kong, which at that time was not part of China.She practiced swimming everyday enough to cross the Han River. She and her mother barely escaped death running away from China. Luckily, they could  contact with one of their relatives.

She kept praying for her father's safety. As soon as Mao died, and a new political party became in power, she came back to their hometown.

Eventually, she met with her daddy, who got freed from the prison. Their tears were flowing down without stopping. Her ordeal ended. Nothing was left but peace to her life!

Reflection about the debate on 15/Feb.

I had a debate on the issue, " If Immigration Authorities opens the door  of  chances of immigration from
the other countries, what area  should be top priority?".
We made three groups which supports three areas, Africa, Asia, Hispanics.
I was a support of Asia, especially, Indian and China.
When my teacher leads out class to debate, nothing did I have in my minds.
My teacher mentioned the rules of debate.
1. Respect other view points.
2. Discuss no argue
3. No rambling
4. Concise reasons
5.Persuade
6. Win over!
I was impressed on this remarks. I felt how beautiful words are.
My first thought after hearing of debate was merely what logic I have to prepare
 and  what strategy we need to compete.
I had a debate while try not to forget " respect, no argue, persuade".
What I learned from the debate is the valuable lessons that I have to keep in mind
when I communicate with the other people as well as my children.

Video clip made of pictures of classmates

Letter planning trip to Sandiego

Hello! This is Hannah. I'm a travel partner with Stefania. 

 I'll continue to explain our travel plan, which is following Stefania's.

We will leave off the Yosemite national park(like as you know from Stefania's letter), 

and head for Sandiego city.

We will keep driving the rent car. The address of  a hotel we booked

is "1380 Harbor Island Dr San Diego". This hotel doesn't cost too much.

 Below Three hundreds dollars per day could be enough.  It is situated on a narrow

spit at the edge of Harbor Island overlooking a marina and San Diego Bay. 

 After checking  in the hotel, we will leave  the hotel towards a famous place for the

tourists. On the way there, we will eat the lunch at the “Barefoot Bar & Grill”, where

we can enjoy outdoor patio dining and live entertainment. We will be served   many  

foods; appetizers, sandwiched, burgers and salads. This restaurant's all menu is  below

40$. We have been looking for some informations on how to get the most out of our

stay in San Diego.  We chose to visit two best places. One is Sandiego Zoo.  It is

known  that More than 4,000 creatures reside at  zoo. The zoo is also an accredited

botanical garden, lavished with more than 700,000 plants. We are looking forward to

seeing many kinds of animals and plants.  The other place is Seaworld. We hope to

have a great time at Seaworld , where we can see the sea life exhibits and the dolphin

show.

Two places that I mentioned don't cost too much, neither. They cost below 500$.

We will have dinner at a food court in the seaworld. We think two places would take

whole day.  I expect your positive response about our plan. I'd like to appreciate of

your suggestion. Sincerely!

My reflections --Research Presentation

 Today we  presented our research regarding "Donner Party".

 At first, I got confused what job I am supposed to do ,because the article was too

shocking to think again yesterday.  As I heard the teacher explaining what  research

 must be done, I got interested in topic.   We  started our research from a question,

"why somebody  survived and others died under the same conditions". We  made

a supposition about "hypothesis". After discussing the Methodology, we analyzed

the data for results. We made a conclusion based on the results.

Thoughout all processes , the outcome is made. 

  However I found our outcome  should have had more detail , the other group's research

contained a specific numbers and data.  Besides, we should have thought a plan for

presentation enough to attractive to the classmates.  Watching the other group's

presentation has been help to me.

Research " The Donner Party"

Team Name :Simple
Team Member: Adriana, Jorge, Elora, Hannah


Problem: why not everybody was able to survive in the Donner Party?

Hypothesis: Were there any relations among gender, age, and marital
status to have more or less opportunity of survive?

Methodology: . Searching information about the issue.
                     .  Analyzing data drawn from the statistics teacher attached on the board.
                     . Sharing   our own point of view with the team
                    
Result:   . Two thirds of women  survived.
             . Two thirds of  men  died.
             . All the adult male who survied the entrapment were fathers.
             . All the bachelors (singleman over 21 age) who were
               trapped  died.
              . Half of the children died.

Conclusion : Analyzing the data, we observed that men had less chance to survive under those
                   conditions. It may be because they have a feeling of  protect women and kids.
                   They usually also have an aggressive behavior and want to impose their
                   thought. Those who have the family must have had support for surviving
                   more than those who were single.

   Video  :           http://video.pbs.org/video/1401950336/

What is my favorite holiday?(homework)

                     ( My writing is for a writing workshop. )

 My favorite holiday is  Thanksgiving Day. In my home country, we have two big
holidays nationwide.  One is Happy New Year; the other one is Thanksgiving
Day. Nevertherless, I  prefer Thanksgiving Day to  Happy New Year.
Below  are my reasons.

 First of all, I can visit my father's tomb with all my family during the holiday.
 My husband had been too busy to go to the place where my father is buried. 
Furthermore, My father's grave is placed  on a steep hill in heart of a mountain.
We have to go through the bushes and make our way though the forest. 
The road  may be frozen near the Happy New Year times. So, it's the best time
 to visit there  on Thankgiving Day.

Second., it's so pleasing  to me to expect my mother-in-law's happy face.
Te family of my husband used to be a big one until all children grew up 
and got married.  Now, she became  the only person living in the  big apartment
since  last spring when my father-in-law passed away. I have been concerned
about her  might-be-loneliness. Her grown-up children don't skip to gather altogher
on the Thanksgiving Day  even if they are busy.  I am sure she is happy even though
 for only several days.

  Third, It's my pleasure to see  my husband become energentic again.
 My husband  is in a workaholic. I 've been persuading myself  in order not to
 feel the bad feelings  because I am certain  he is also enduring his life for our family.
 The Tanksgiving day is the offical holiday  that he can take a rest.  It is very helpful
for him to get some energy.

 Thanksgivig Day is the blessing day  which brings much happiness to me. 
I can't stand imagining   the friendly atmosphere and  warm conversations that day.
I am looking forward to the coming Thanksgiving Day.

How to endure living on a tight budget!

   If you wish to live on a tight budget, you should keep in mind the  rules regarding  consumption.
  First of all, you need to know how much my budget can be.
Accurate recording of  your spending is helpful of you not to  forget your budget.
  Second, you have to think one more time before you consume. 
you need to check if it's worth to spend and what can be the substitue.
  Third, It is recommendable  not to use the credit card  excessively.
The credit card can temp you to spend beyond your budget limit.
Money used with the credit card  can be your own debt.
   People tend to think they can spend more than they can afford
 if they don't have the rules.  You'd better  keep the rules
 whenever you go shopping.

Song presentation concerning a social problem

Our team's topic was  the power transition which issued by Egypt situations. We changed the lyrics 
of a song "Imagine" .

<Imagine>
Imagine there's no freedom It's hard to live there all men below one
Above us only kingImagine all the people
Living for one man ~~~~~ <lap>
Mubarak, Kim jung il, Mugabe ,sale…………………………………………

You’re all dictators.
Step down… step down.
Why stick to power.
Why suppress people.
Return,, return,, the power to people
Give back,,give back freedom to people

Imagine there's no freedomIt isn't hard to get Nothing to kill or die for
And no power too Imagine all the people Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Time Schedule for study

		SCHEDULE
	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
9~12	pimmit	pimmit	pimmit	pimmit	pimmit
1~2	study	study	study	study	study
2~3	pick up	study	study	study	study
3~4		study	study		study
4~5		pick up	pick up		pick up

The sections" study"  are meaning  not only for books but also  for all kinds of  English material,
such as magazine, TV,movie.
The hours for study is the maximun one I can afford.
I found  I have little time to focus on  learning English than I thought.
I got refreshed   while  making the time schedule.

Roommate AD (It's not a real situation but a homework)

I am looking for one female friend who wish to share my house.
Those below are about me.
I'm a hardworking and responsible single woman.
I enjoy talking in a friendly way.
I love being out in nature.  I don't mind trying many kinds of food. I tend to avoid religious labels.
I am interested in learning English, so if you would like to be my conversation partner,that would
be best to me. I feel like with hanging out with my roomate occasionally.

My house is near Pimmit English Center where you can reach within 5 minutes from.
It has two rooms. One of them can be yours! It's very wide and  cozy  place.
If you are interested, and are sure to respect the privacy, please drop me a line.
I hope you responsible for helping keep house clean.
I can't wait to hear from you!!
My e-mail is cassanf@gmail.com

Today's lessons(2/2/2011)

I got quick view about the lessons the substitute teacher took.

<Noun Clauses  after be >

The bad thing about      ~ing~  is (that) Noun clauses.
The good thing about
The worst thing about
The best thing about
The hard part about
The nice thing about
The bad part about
The only thing about

The problem  with  ~ing  ~  is (that) Noun clauses.
The trouble with
The difficulty with

The advantage of  ~ing  ~ is (that) Noun clauses.
The disadvantage of ~ing
The  upside of

The trick to
The secret to

we practiced combing two sentences.
And we discussed  adopting which is the interesting subject of the reading (P.9)
              I think adopting is very honourable action.
              However, it should be considered very carefully.
              if you are very confident in raising the child as the same as the biological  child,
              you  can be adaopter.


We continued with Unit 2. We read "What did i get myself into" and practised using "should + have +pp" "shouldn't + have +pp".

Reflection-"What is a Reflection"

Part 1: Learn.  Answers the question-What did you learn? 
   
   In this part of a reflection, the reflector identifies what concepts were introduced,what the main ideas of the learning were,What activities the learner engaged in as part of learning, what themes emerged,etc.

Part 2: Know, Answers the question - What did you now know?

In this part of a reflection, the reflector identifies what sense they made of the  content and the activities.
What are conceptual generalizations?
What do the ideas and concepts stuides add up to?
What principles or guidelines or generalizations emerged for you as a learner?
What lessons did you draw not only from the content but the activities and processes used to
support your learning?

Part3:Act. Answers the question-How will this influence your practice?

In this part of a reflection, the reflector makes connections with their practice,with their goals,
and with their vision of the educational enterprise.
What are you going to do now that you have this new knowledge?
How might you change your practice?
When you reach out to try something new or practice in a new way or new environment,
What will you keep in mind?
What will your goals be?
What innovations might you attempt?
What future learning would be important for you?

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Teacher gave us the paper containing the information about a Reflection.
As a basic principles to the learning, I will try to apply myself to this one whenever I learn.

Today's lesson: personality traits

Today  we started our textbook.  The first chapter was about the personality  and traits.
The instructor asked to us. " What kid of person are you"
We learned the expressions  that describe  the speaker's personality.

• to be afraid of ~ ing
• to mind  ~ing
• can/can't stand ~ing
• to worry about ~ing
• to enjoy ~ing
• to avoid ~ing
• insist on ~ing
• prefer   to do sth
• prefer  doing sth

Making three senteces explaining the traits ,  we practiced  the useful expressions  as above.
We can use these expressions both the informal situations and the formal situations.
The informal situations include the  casual conversaions and the formal situations
refers the interview, the conference, the lecture   and so on.
As stated below, we can make sentences .
I avoid making mistakes.
I avoid repeating the same mistakes.
I dislike lying to people.
I prefer organizing everything.
I worry about being on time.

Next, the insturctor gave us the pretending situations: Meeting the people, interviewing the baby-sitter.

Twilight of the Books: newyorker.com

Twilight of the Books: newyorker.com


 Many researches had been attempted to reveal the tendencies of the reading
with the changes of the times. The researchers reached the conclusions that
the percentages for the reading are declining undoubtedly.  However,
some people
still emphasizes that the reading skills is essential for the people
to lead their lives. They believe that the reading skills could become
the reliable  source for acquiring useful means  for the sake of the
life. They show us the theises worthy to discuss.
The quotations underneath are the some parts of the theises .

According to  the N.E.A chairman, Dana Gioia, "Poor reading skills
correlate heavily with lack of employment, lower wages, and fewer
opportunities for advancement."
We agree with this.
1) Reading skill gives us wide and deep perspectives  necessary to the
occupation.
2) We think better writing comes from reading skills, and writing
skill could give more chance and opportunity for obtaining the better
job.
3)We think reading skill gives us better knowledge.  If the person
read more and  becomes more qualified than others, the person would be
likely to be chosen by the better companies.


According to Wolf "the time it frees for the brain to have thoughts
deeper than those that came before"

We agree with this because
1) When we are reading a book, we can  imagine enough to travel to
anywhere in our brain.
2)A reading gives us indirect experience,  it could make our thought
deeper and reduce risk in our life.
3) We could understand and learn about other people's life from a book.

According to Proust "all he can do is give us desires."
1)We could learn from a book what we want to
2)A reading could trigger much interests about the world.
3)If we are interested in some place from a book, we would try to travel there.
 Through the discussion, we found there are  much advantages to the reading.
It is important that we use the benefits from the reading.  Some people
feel it is hard to read consistently because the reading requires much patience.
However, we should not forget the value of the reading.

The 10 reasons why my group learn english.

Group Member: Hannah, Jenny, Obah, Eunju

To help children
To comminicate with other people in English
To share life experience
To show good example for kids
To want to volunteer  at school
To read newspapers and watch TV in English
To  learn new vocabulary
To learn other culture knowledge
To get a good job
To solve  daily life problem

Congratulations to my blog!

 I made my blog at last!!!  This would be the blog for practicing my English. 
I will post my assignments afterwards.