Procedure

December 16, 2013

My friends and I had a discourse approach in reading class, and learned about procedure texts. Today, the teacher gave us 2 sheets that used to explain about the procedure.

First, the teacher let us to think about own favorite food and wrote it on own paper. Then, she asked us how to cook those menu. Some students wrote fluently, some used their smart phone to search for their favorite food. My favorit food that I wrote is chicken fried and I wrote it quickly. When we finished, the teacher taught us about the meaning and the purpose of the procedure. The purpose is to tell the reader how to do or make something. Then, we read many texts, for example, how to cook omelette, how to cook chicken soup, learning a second language, etc. About the text "Learning a second language", It told us about how to learn a second language. It's so interesting.
Final, we did the exercise together.

Today, I was interested in every texts because many of them was about the food! ha ha ha :)

Descriptive

December 15, 2013

I had a discourse approach in reading class.
Today, we learned about the descriptive.

First, the teacher let us to read the mind maps. Then, she told us the meaning of descriptive.
Descriptive text is a text which says what a person, thing or a place. This kind of text helps us understand a topic.
It uses the simple present tense, attributive and identifying process, and adjective to describe.
Next, we read 3 descriptive texts. The first text is about the Komodo Dragon. It is so frightening! The second text is about Budapest. I just knew, the Budapest has many place where are interesting. 
The third text is about Prague. This text describes the city of Prague and its uniqueness.

In the class, I was sleepy. So, I skimmed the texts, and I didn't get the meaning of the words.
When we finished, the teacher allowed us to go home.

Secrets by Tim Winton

November 2, 2013

I had a discourse approach in reading class.
The teacher taught us the narrative.
The title was "Secrets", it was written by Tim Winton.
We read this story and summarized it.

The summary of this story
Kylie felt left out from her mother and Philip's activities. (Philip is her stepfather.)
She became interested in the chickens in the yard.
Somehow her secret helped her to feel less lonely.
She found a second egg and then found out where other are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen.
In the holidays, Philip and her mother left her alone.
She was happy and went to the yard for looking her photo album.
There was the bore well which thirty-six deep.
Kylie was forbidden to lift the lid.
First, she sat near the well and looked her photo album.
After that, she went down into the well everyday.
On a sunday afternoon, Philip caught her down the well. Then he hit her.
Kylie had something in her heart.
She thrown the chicks down the well.
Next, she hit the hen and thrown it down too.
In that night, Kylie cut off her head from the special photo and thrown it away.


From this story, I feel sorry for Kylie because she felt left out from her family. That made her was lonely.
I dislike Kylie's mother because she didn't care her child.
She was only interested in her new husband.
I dislike Philip because he was violent for Kylie.

I think the themes of this story are...
- Neglect: Kylie's mother had a new husband. She was interested in her husband but forgot her child.
- Coping with the absence of a parent: This story gave the example of the child who had the problems in a family. When I read it, I thought about how to solve the problems.
- Loneliness: The little girl usually separated herself from her family and stayed alone. She liked to think about her father. These thing show me that her felt lonely.

This story have many symbolic.
In my opinion...
- The egg refers to the child that was cared from their parents.
- The well refers to loneliness and sadness.
- The photo refers to the good memory that can't come back again.
- Kylie's cutting of the photo shows the umbrage of Kylie.

Reading The Narrative

November 1, 2013

I had a discourse approach in reading class.
The teacher taught us the narratives.

First, she told us the purpose and types of the narrative.
The basic purpose of narrative is to entertain.
There are many types of narrative. They include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, romances, myths, etc.
Then, the teacher taught us about the text organization.
The narrative begins with an orientation, follows by the complication, and ended with a resolution.
It use normally past tense to explain the story and use many linking words to do with time.
The teacher gave us new sheets, there are the example of narrative.
We read them and discussed together.

I understood some parts but some parts I didn't because I didn't know the words.
Sure! I have the way for read them.
I guess the words from the context.

This picture shows us about the text organization of Narrative.