Week 5 Expository Essays and Modal Verbs
We are already in week 5! Yikes! and so far off of the homework calendar...
I fear that I have over planned your semester, but this week we'll try to get back on track. 803 is slightly ahead of 804, but this week we'll try to catch up...
On Monday, you'll sign up for your expository essay topic: the master list came from things which are pertinent to the world we live in. Consequently, there are not a lot of happy or cheerful topics;however, there are some which are extremely positive and uplifting.
The purpose of the expository essay is to inform your readers and this essay is different in so many ways than others. First of all, in length it is 1,000 words BEFORE you add your bibliography; it will consist of your 5 point Outline (with 3 links to websites where you have found information) this Friday (3/1), the expository essay (in two weeks 3/15), the bibliography (3/15), the abstract (3/22), and the apendices (3/15). Each piece will be graded separately.
The Mid-Term is rocketing towards us, so you'll be having more listening activities in these next three weeks!
Please discuss the book. We still haven't begun the historical things about the United States which creeped me out the first time I read it, but they are coming. Are you going back and rereading at night for greater understanding? What do you think of it? Does it make you want to go to New York and visit the places the book has talked about? What do you think of biblical prophesy? Have you read any of the prophetic books of the Bible? Some of them are pretty harsh!
Hi, sorry hitherto I am not rereading at night but I am going to do it today. If I will go to New York perhaps will visit the places where the book talks.
ReplyDeleteActually I am reading another book which talks about the same things and it is really fantastic for me, specially how talks about the same ideas in diferent documents.
O.k I hope have good undesrstood of the essay.
ReplyDeleteAll weekends, I read the book again. Sometimes in class, I am more concerned about reading than paying attention. The book is very interesting but from my point of view, I don't think that this prophecy refers only to the U.S., I think it can be applied to many nations. During my reading, I have searched a lot of places and Bible verses.
ReplyDeleteI do the same, I have to reread the book to get a better idea of what the author wanted to tell us.
DeleteYes, it doesn,t refers only to the U.S., because if you searh information in other sources as glyphs or scrolls you can find several prophecys of this style which applies to everyone.
DeleteHi Génesis!!!
Deleteyo said that you have searched a lot of Bible verses... What have you found about that?
For example, Mateo 24:7 says "Nation will fight against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places." If you continue reading Mateo, you will realize that this is very similar to the current world situation. The world spends more on war than on solving poverty... 2010 was the year of the earthquakes...
DeleteIt happens to me too, I think that this is a good activity to get better in reading, but in comprehension I need to work a lot.
DeleteAlejandra in the bible in apocalypse you can found a lot of verses about prophecys that are so interesting!
DeleteI would like to visit the places in New York and i would like to read more about it. it´s a interesting topic and i believe that see the places will be a good xperience and I be able to understand the magnitude of disaster.
ReplyDeleteI couldn´t agree more with you, because if you are in the places of the disaster, it would be an amazing experience and in that way try to be more concerned about what happened in 9/11.
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DeleteI don't believe in any profecy which say people that they are in great danger if we don't follow the good moral of the bible and god. I never read the bible and my opinion comes from my culture, education and studies. People are free to believe in any religion or philosofy, and I confess that I disagre with this kind of fatalism like "we are not master of our destiny, everything is already written"...
Hi Daphne we take some classes together, and I don`t belive in any profecy, I think that is impossible know what will to happen in the future.
Delete9/11 have darks secrets but obviuosly is only one opinion. Your phrase Daphne explain everything.
The Harbinger, is an extraordinary book, because while I am reading I learn new vocabulary and also I can know more about USA and its history. However I have to read the chapters, we read in class because I want to get a better idea about what the author is saying, which is impossible for me do it in class. By the way I would like to visit each of the places that are described in the book; specifically the Central Park.
ReplyDeleteI think the same, when we read in class we are thinking in pronunciation, but no in what the author is saying.
DeleteI agree with you Osvaldo. It is an amazing vocabulary book. It is a nice point of view about the American culture.
DeleteI would like to visit Central Park too
DeleteMe too, I would like to visit central park, although I have never been in the unites states it has never been a country that I would like but with the book I have thought that maybe could be nice to know some places that appear on it.
DeletePerfect!. We must discuss the different views according to topic, discuss achieving good and bad points of view.
ReplyDeleteI think the book is very interesting because we can know more aspects about the US history... Is difficult for me understand the idea of the author in class due I am more concerned in the pronunciation and in addition, I am so tired and I put less attention so I need read again but I can only read the weekend. I have never been in NY but I would like to visit it. About the biblical prophesy, I think that it can be applied to other countries too.
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DeleteBy the above comments, I think that a lot of us feel the same. We need to read the book again to understand it. The good thing about reading is that we lose the fear.
yes, the most part of the time in class, we are more concentrate in the pronunciation than in understand the idea of the author.
DeleteI agree I think that sometimes we needed to going back and rereading at home.
DeleteI agree with you Genesis, maybe we don´t understand a lot of the book because we are only concentrate in the pronunciation but this exercise help to us to lose the fear when we are reading.
DeleteThe first weeks I read again the book in the nights, but lately I haven´t had enough time to do it, but I think that is a really interesting book and a great opportunity to improve our vocabulary and our knowledge about the america´s history.
ReplyDeleteYes of course it is an excellent opportunity to increase our vocabulary and also to know about US
DeleteThat happened to me too. I don't have the same free time as a month ago. But I try to get organized to have time for all I want to do.
DeleteI also think it is a good way to learn how to redact narrative things in English. To read this book is going to help us in so many ways.
The book is very interesting. I like to read some history about US and know more about NY because I would like to go one day. About the biblical prophesy its quite difficult because is possible that it will be true but maybe not. I have never read anything of the prophetic books of the Bible.
ReplyDeleteMe neither have read anything about this. I have read the Bible, but no the prophetic books, I think because I am afraid of knowing what will happen at the end of the world.
DeleteBefore this semester, I did not know too much about the US history. But I have learned a little bit, and I would like to learn more.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I reread the book, and I think it is pretty interesting. The way that is written is nice. I would like to go to New York one day, not only because the book, actually I got interested for the things that Cindy showed us in the images the first class, but it would be cool to be in the same place the book describes too.
I have never read a biblical prophecy, maybe I'll read one soon.
In class,for me, is very hard concentrate in the meaning or what the book is going on, I think I really don't listen what my classmates are reading, I just try to think in how bad I'm going to read. That's why I have to read it after class to not be too lost before next chapter.
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteI have a very shared opinion about this book.
As I wrote above in a comment, I don't believe in the idea of a profecy because I don't like the fatalism which means, to me, "we are not master of our destiny, everything is already written"... But I also understand that people can believe it, and have good argument about it.
I'm one of those people who think that there isn't one moral, one philosofy or style of life. So in this book, I don't like the comparison of the people from Iraq with the Arryrians. The fact to considere a population and a religion as the enemy to destroy.
Terrorism is a terrible and criminal way to reach a goal and I blame it. But my point is that noone is bad by nature, that averything depends of the context. Furthermore we are all manipulated by the medias and what the governants want us to believe.
Nelson Mandela (with his party, the African National Congress) used terrorism, to reach his goal which was to free his people from the white supremacy (the Apartheid). During a while he has been the first wanted person of South Africa and a couple of decades after he was President and received the Nobel Peace Prize.
And finally, without the idea of profecy, I like the book message of pacifism and humility.
I agree with a lot of my classmates about read again the book in house and about to go to New York someday and learn more about the history (maybe someday we can organizate a trip ).
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