After reading the essay in class, answer the following question: What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Also, answer question #8 pg. 158. The answer should be at least one page long.
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- Prof. Sharon Diaz
- Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- Currently living in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, Moving later this year to Orlando, Fl. I am sweet, caring, loving, intelligent, and dedicated.
Ingl 3103
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Intermediate English
Christian R. Rosado
Questions:
1. What it makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay is some of her experiences that she shares with the readers. She is telling a story from a defined point of view and it makes it descriptive because she describes a vivid detail that the reader can easily form a precise mental picture of what is being written about.
2. Reading means the process of attaching meaning to certain griten symbols. It is very interesting because as the words meet the eye of the reader is stimulated to make a mental picture of the action taking place. On my case I would not leave reading developement exclusively to teachers. Whether the young child learns to read with success and pleasure depends to a large extent upon whether he is redy to begin. Mucho f what is involved in readiness for reading takes place before the child enters kindergarten or first grade. Both the home and the school, then play important parts in promoting readiness for reading. I agree with Isabel Allende that reading can open children to an infinite landscape. Reading is more important today than it ever was – it is crucial to being an informed citizen, to succed in one’s cosen career and to personal fulfilment. Children who read Hill do better in other subjects and in all aspects of schooling and beyong. As the world becomes more complex, reading is increasingly important for children trying to find their place in it.
Juliann Acosta Cancel
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 Section 095
September 10, 2007.
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?What makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay is the way she communicates her personal experience in her written work. It is narrative because it is like a short story in which she narrates her own personal experience and she also gives full details about it and that makes it descriptive too. She describes how important is reading to her by saying that “For me, life without reading would be like being in a prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straitjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place”.
2. Answer from question #8 (page 158): I would not leave reading development to teachers only if I had kids some day. Reading is a way of expanding horizons and I would love to teach and see my kids love reading as I do. Teachers do it because it is their work to tell students to read but that is why some students do not enjoy it; they think of it as an assignment from school which they are going to be bored while doing and that is when parents come. Parents should encourage their kids to read for it is one of the best ways to use our imagination and also know more about our world. For them, maybe a TV will be much more fun than reading but we got to teach them now. I do not know how to balance TV and reading or even balance time for both but maybe by starting to read with my kids since they are little will help and maybe that will make them want to read than watch TV. Maybe by not having cable will help my kids to loose interest in TV since there would not be anything fun or interesting to watch and that will make them want to do something else as a hobby: like reading. I do agree with Isabel Allende’s opinion: “that reading can open children to an ‘infinite landscape’ ”. This is because there are a lot of books: from infants to adult books. We make the choice of taking which one we want to take. For an example, if we look for a children’s book we will find awesome stories that will not only make them learn elemental stuff as colors or new words but they will also see the way the author sees the world and they will imagine the world how they (authors) see it.
Isha Marie Rodríguez Santiago
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 Sec. 095
Date to hand in: September 10, 2007
Questions:
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Having in mind the Isabel Allende essay, I think that what it makes it a narrative essay is the fact that she is telling a story from her personal experience and reflecting on the importance of reading in her life and in the life of her family members. What I like more about this essay is that she made it in the first person, by writing this essay in this way the reader can really relate to the way the author thinks. Over all, I find this essay truly interesting because of the way she makes her point in the importance of reading and in a certain way encourages the reader to keep on reading.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television habits? Do you agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”?
Undoubtedly reading is very important in the intellectual development of a person. This is why most doctors tell expected mothers to read to the child eve while is still in the womb, because this helps their cerebral development. Sadly most people push books and reading to the side and would rather use a more visual approach to learning, such as TV and movies without noticing that they are missing out on the adventuress that reading has to offer. I say adventures because when you read you get involved in what you are reading and you find yourself relating in the characters from the story or the article.
When children are in grammar school ages they become very interesting in reading, because those are the ages where they begin to be encouraged by their teachers. But parent’s can’t leave this encouragement souly on teachers, they have to get involved as well to help children see and understand that reading is fun and you can learn a lot from it. Personally, my parents always encouraged me to read. My mother loves to read novels and she is always reading the newspaper. On the other hand, my father is more of visual learner; he likes to watch a lot of documentaries but doesn’t read much. When I was younger my parents would buy me short story books and they would read them to me every night. Even so, that there came a time that instead of them reading to me, I would read to them. By them repeating the stories over and over again I learned to memorize them and to associate words with pictures. At that young age I would read books by myself, and it made no difference if they were in English or Spanish because my parents thought that it was important for me to be bilingual so they taught me both languages. I know that when I have children I would probably follow my parent’s example and encourage my children to read since they are small.
I agree completely with Isabel Allende when she says that “reading can open children to an infinite landscape”, because it is absolutely true. When you read there is no way you can limit yourself in what you want to learn and so you keep searching for new books to read that can further stimulate your learning. That’s why I believe that reading is important in the intellectual development of each one of us.
Lorena Rodriguez
English 3103
Prof. Shanon Diaz
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
What makes it a narrative/descriptive essay is the fact that she is telling her own personal story so that makes it
narrative and she is describing what is reading for her so that makes it descriptive. Basically she is explaining
and describing what is reading for her in her own point of view based on an expirienced lived by her.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it, will you leave reading development
to teachers? How will you regulate your child's reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree
with Allende that reading can open children "to an infinite landscape"?
My plan for my children's reading habits will be to mantaine alive the reason to read or to tell them a
good and fundamental reason for reading; telling them how many things can they fing in the word of
reading and the fabulous word of books. I woudn't leave all the reading development of reading because
I think tah it should start in your own home teaching them how to read since they are born. Reading to them
since an early age will encourage them to keep doing it for the rest of their lifes and it will teaach them the
importance of reading. I really agree with Allende in what she said about reading for little kids or children that
it opens them to "an infinite landscape" because it is true reading bringsnot only children but everyone to a whole
new world in your own imagination a world where you can eiher learn, studyor just live a different style of living.
Reading can bring a lot of new opportunities for kids this way they can learn a lot of whatever it is they want to
know, there is every single theme for reading there is about everything in this world to read. Sometimes or for some
people it can be very boring to read but the essential key here is to read about topics you want to know or that
interest you for some reason.
The problem with the television well I guess you don't have to be so exagerated and go ahead and take the cable off
I just think that it would be easier for me to keep a schedule of when to read and when to see television, because it
has to be because they want to you can't push them to read if they don't want to so it's better to set some values
and give a good example for the kids of reading that way they would put more interest in reading that to the television;
I think they would do it by themselves because they will expirience a whole new way of doing the same thing they do
wathching television but in a way that will help them on the future and it would give them knowledge.
Ingl3103
Daysha Ferrer Torres
1) What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
a. What makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay is the fact that Isabella Allende is narrating her personal experiences. It makes her descriptive because she is describing everything and she puts her opinions in it. Is an essay and not only a narrative because it states a point and it argues it during the whole narration by her personal experiences.
2) Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”
a. Since I enter the world of reading, all the doors that were closed in my head open. I started to realize that reading and studying is one of the greatest power you could have. Knowledge can open you so many doors, can take you anywhere and most important, it cannot be taken away. Once you know something is yours and only yours. The best way to get knowledge is by reading. For me is like a passion, which I has always known that I want to transmit to my children. I have always thought that whenever I become pregnant, I am going to read to them, since the moment they start growing in my womb. They are going to have books as a basis in their life, and I plan to have a library, like the one my parents had for me, with a lot of intelligent toys, that will develop their minds and their motor skills. Also I plan to have a lot of going out and sports in my kids, which is going to help me to avoid a lot of television in them. I do not like the electronics games like play station, or nitendos and I do not plan to have them. But if they feel that they like it, I will make arrangement so they could do everything, without getting to obsess with something. To much of anything is not good. And I do agree with Isabella Allende in the fact that reading is “an infinite landscape”. Reading is full of beauty, knowledge, and is infinite, you could read and read and learn and learn, and you could not stop unless you want to. With books you have one of the most open worlds in your hands, and it makes you use your imagination and your brain, it develops your brain, and is good for everybody. Is a beauty, is an infinite knowledge, is life.
Kasandra Viera
Sharon Diaz
English 3103-section 095
September 10, 2007
1- What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
It is an essay because she is telling us about her point of view of the reading but the way that she did it was telling us, the readers, a narration about her life. In that narration she tells her own experiences. In the essay you can see that she describes with a lot of details the things in it. When you read her essay you can imagine clearly what happened in her life and why she thinks that reading is very important. Also is narrative because she his making like a chronic.
2-Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusive? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree whit Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”?
I will teach to my children the value of reading since they were born. Even if they do not understand what I read to them because they, in a future, will see the reading familiar and it will be easier to learn it. Many studies demonstrate that if the mothers read to their children since they born or before they will be, in the future, more intelligent than other children. The reading is the most important part in the education of a child. I will not leave the reading development to others because is something that the children should be learn before getting in school. Combine the television with the reading in their routine will help them to do not get bored with only one way to learn. I said that because with television they can also learn, all depends of what programs you allow them to watch. But we have to keep in mind that the television does not substitute the reading. I agree with Allende because when a children reads they learn and if they continue reading in their life their will be better professionals and for them would be easier to reach their objectives no matter what they are.
Krystal M. Medina Valentin
Prof. Sharon Diaz
Ingl 3103 Section 095
September 10,2007
1.What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
What makes Isabel Allende’s essay “Reading the History of the World” a narrative/descriptive essay is that she is making a point by talking about her personal experience? She’s narrating stories from her childhood and adult life, as she narrates this stories she’s using sensory details. This makes us the readers, visualize what she is trying to say and understand it better.
2.Question # 8
First of all I would read to my children when they are just a fetus in my tummy. This helps them develop their brain activity, when they grow up they will understand things better and faster, this are results from scientific investigations. I would do the same when they are babies, it doesn’t matter that they don’t understand you, but it will help them when they grow up. When they are babies to 3 years old I would read them a story every night before going to sleep. As they are growing there reading time also grow with them. When they are older, the more I would read to them until they learn to read by themselves. At first it would be children books and when they are older they can read novels and more difficult books.
I would not let reading development exclusively to the teacher because I think that we as the parents have to teach them and accustom them to a reading plan. Because I don’t want them to be like me that I hate to read and I know that reading helps you acquire better knowledge and development vocabulary, they also learn how to express themselves and how to write in different ways. In this life you have to read, so that you could past the elementary, junior and high school, in college it even more that you have to read for that you can have a good grade and graduate.
The reading habits that I would develop in my children are at least from half an hour to an hour daily. The television would be restricted until they finish the reading hour’s state above and after they finish all their home work. If they don’t finish one of the two rules they can’t watch television, if they finish they only can watch one hour of television. Yes, I agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”. This is true, because as you read you acquired knowledge, vocabulary, writing techniques, also you learn about the different topic that you read.
Ýearim Irizarry Montalvo
Prof. Sharon Díaz
English 3103 SEC. 095
September 10, 2007
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Isabel Allende begging her essay explain us the importance of reading in her life. Read for her is learn, freedom and happiness. She demonstrated it with her own experiences. Allende began to read early in her life and learn it from her uncle, mother and grandfather. She through that with reading can learn and travel the world. This habit had being taught to her children. Finally, he said about the importance of read at Latin America. The forms in which she expresses her passion of reading make the essay narrative / descriptive. It is because she tells us the importance of reading and supports it with experiences and information of her life. Isabel Allende presents the importance of read and approved it with her life.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree with Allenden that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape” (paragraph 1)?
The reading in ours days is very important and help to create better and more intelligent persons. If I need to create a plan of reading for my children it will begin before they born. At this stage the fetus are very receptive and can listen what her or his parent talk or read to her or him. Once born all days read to him or her short stories for children it can create habits of reading. At the time that she or he can read I will buy very educative, colorful and interest book that catch her or his attention. I will regulate my child’s reading and televisions habit viewing that they see good programs and also makes all their obligations of study. I agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”. Reading you can learn, can imagine, created and travel the world.
Rosemarie Santa
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 Sec. 095
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay? The way that the author exposes her point by letting us, the readers know about here back round and what is happening in her life that makes here think that way, supporting by this her point or thesis statement.
2. Question number eight (page 158). Once I get pregnant I will start reading out loud to my children, before they come out. After there are born some how in collaboration with my partner I will make a habit of reading a book before going to sleep that way they will learn to like it and make it part of there life’s. As you see I wouldn’t leave to the teachers because I consider that they wont bring them the same attention and devotion that a parent can give to his or her child. When it comes to regulating television vs. reading I don’t think it would be necessary if the shows are educative and books every night I know it would do. I know it will because like the author says “Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinitive landscape.” once they get into the wonderful world of literature they will be hungry to learn more about everything it has to offer them and more since it is so fascinating and wide.
David O. Rodriguez
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 Section 095
September 10, 2007
1.What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Based on the reading I would say that what makes Isabel Allende’s essay a narrative/descriptive, is the fact that she is telling a story in which she is the main character. She is also giving her story a more vivid feeling when she describes and gives such visual details, which helps us readers get in her shoes and understand better the message that she is trying to express. It is clear when she says, that for her, not reading would be having her spirit imprisoned, that the whole argument of the essay is to let her readers know how much she enjoys and loves reading.
2.Question #8
I most definitely agree with Isabel Allende, in my opinion reading is one of the most useful ways (if not the most) to stimulate imagination and increase knowledge, which opens many doors to great successful paths. The best way to teach kids a good habit of reading is by introducing them, to books at a very young age. Kids should be taught that there is a lot more to reading than just homework and school work. There are endless things you can learn of the world when you read, and I believe, that is the side that kids should be exposed to, first. Television can be consider a threat, when trying to establish reading as a priority, but the key to solving this, would be to create a balance between both. Teachers should not be completely in charge of developing our kid’s interest in reading. We should be more concern on what benefits our child and be the firsts to take part of the teaching. Since we don’t have as many students as teachers, it’s a lot easier for us to individually work with our kids.
Melvin Y. Caraballo Izquierdo
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 sec. 095
September 10, 2007
What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
The essay Reading the History of the World, by Isabel Allende, is a narrative/descriptive one because of some unique qualities. It is a very detailed essay because every paragraph is filled with many descriptive expressions that make the argument a more interesting one. Also, the essay is in some way a portrait of Isabel herself because it shows a personal experience that she had in accordance with the topic of the essay which is the overview of reading. Isabel Allende expressed how she felt about reading and at the same time encouraged us to read in the same way; as a way of being free.
Reading plan for my children:
My life, as for reading development, hasn’t been that much encouraged. I learned most of my skills from school books, or private academies. It is not that this was a poor education but I do know it would have been better if I had read more. This is way I totally agree with Isabel Allende when she wrote that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”.
I am preparing myself the best I can in order to be a great example to my future children. In order to do so, I must create a learning atmosphere from the beginning. Children in their younger years are vey attracted to visual things. This is why my children’s firsts books will be filled with colorful pictures, this way, they will create a sense of intrigue in my children to keep on hearing me read. People say that what you teach your kids their first five years will determine their outcome as future adults. I believe this and this is why I will take reading manners into my own hands and not leave it all to their teachers.
Unfortunately, the television has become a full entertainment and advertisement method and has left the learning methods to a lower level. Instead of having more channels that we could learn from what they are showing, we get a lot of violence, adult language, and content inappropriate for our children. Still, there are channels, like Discovery Channel, that teaches many useful things. Although learning is my priority, I have to let my kids have a little fun while watching T.V. but all under my consent. For example, I would create a plan of maybe 7 to 12 hours of reading a week with about 15 hours of television. This is complemented with outdoor exercises, sports, etc.
Francisco J. Hernandez
Professor Sharon Diaz
English 3103, Section 093
9 September 2007
Why is it a narrative/descriptive essay?
I think it a narrative descriptive essay, because she uses a small narrative to prove the point in her thesis statement. It’s also descriptive because in her story she provides us with many details that don’t leave much room for imagination. She tells it, like she wants the reader to visualize it.
Question #8:
I would teach my child that reading is very important, because without it you cant learn it the way its supposed to be, to be able to understand something is to know it in all of its aspects (read, write, speak). Reading is and essential skill and it can also be used as a good method of entertainment and relaxation at times. I would regulate the TV so it would be a more of a recreational resource, than an educational resource. It’s something not to be used to think for us or tell us what to do. The computer is resource I would regulate most casually so there is just enough balance in which he can think for himself and recognize that he could do it without the computer, but use it as a tool for writing other than checking his paper for him or copy and pasting from the internet. Reading is an important part of life we as humans could not live without, and without it we have very limited perspective of life and what other people think about.
Ignacio Rodriguez
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103- Section 095
1. What makes Isabel Allende’s essay a narrative/descriptive one?
In a narrative essay a story is told. In this case Isabel writes about her own life in a specific place and time, and introduces a problem. This is a narrative essay because Isabel narrates her personal experiences about her childhood and how reading was so important to her. This is a descriptive essay too because she narrates with precise detail how she started reading her uncle’s books and how those books represented freedom. Another example of a descriptive technique would be when she writes about starting to read Shakespeare at the age of 9.
2. Question #8
I agree with the idea that reading represents “an infinite landscape” to those who know how to read. When I have the privilege of being a father I will teach my children to read. But I will also teach them to read with conscience and the skill of knowing when to listen and when to hear the author of the piece they are reading. I consider reading to be a powerful tool which can create one of two things: a moral mind or a immoral one. Now a day’s people should focus more on what they are teaching their children because a child with a corrupt mind can read a book and create many ideas, but they won’t necessarily be good ones. I definitely will read everything my children read and then explain it to them with a ethical sense that will give them the tools to be better people and not misguided ones.
Christian Romero
Prof. Sharon Diaz
Ingl3103 Sect.095
September 10,2007
1.What make the essay narrative/descriptive essay?
The essay is narrative because the author is tell us a little story about how important is reading for her life. It is descriptive because in every paragraph and sentence she gave many details and she communicate her thinking clearly.\
Answer from the question #8: A reading plan for your childrens.
First, I will like to make an habit with my children and teach them how important is the reading in the life, but the little problem is that my parents don't teach me this principle.
Jennifer Ruiz Hernández
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 sec. 095
September 10, 2007
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
What makes Isabel Allende , “ Reading the History of the World”, essay a narrative/descriptive one is the fact that she is giving us so many details about her reading life and narrating us her own personal story. I mean it’s phenomenal how she gets our attention and interest for reading with such facility. She not only gives us her reading experiences, but she gives us a lot of details about her life. Allende wrote this essay narrating us something very important of her life and she did it describing us her experiences and detailing them, she’s basically narrating us a part of her life.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree with Allenden that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape” (paragraph 1)?
My mom has always loved to read. She grabs a book and she can read it whit such passion it makes it interesting just to see her enjoy what’s she’s reading. Since she was a little girl her mom read to her and taught her great reading habits, she created in her a passion for reading that is just perfectly proportionate. My grandmother read to her fantasy and love stories, stories that she knew where appropriated for her at her age. I want my children to have a passion for reading like my mom does. That’s why I plan to read and sing to my babies since their in my womb, because I’ve heard that’s really productive for a baby. As they get bigger I plan to give them books of their interest, and read whit them those books. I know that if I want them to have good reading habits, I have to get them interested in reading at a young age like Isabel Allende did. Fist, I would read whit them children’s books, books that they pick up themselves, stories they feel attracted to. I will take from every week certain hours to read whit them and certain hours to play whit them. Because they have to have fun to, not everything is reading. Something very important is that I cant expect they would read everyday of the week for long hours, because that can lead them to two things, first that they begin to hate reading instead of loving it or two that they become reading freaks!, and I really don’t want that either because that can bring them problems too. Another thing I would teach them is that as they get older, they have to read more mature thing for their age and dedicate a little more to the reading time.
José A. Sánchez Concepción
Prof. Sharon Díaz
English 3103 Section095
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Well, it’s a narrative-descriptive essay because Allende in her essay “Reading the History of the World, tell a story narrating from her point of view, detailing a real experience. When she is doing that, she is describing the story; doing the essay visual…whit real experiences.
2. Question #8
Of course I agreed with Isabel Allende on what she said: “ an infinite landscape” of way to the children on the reading. I’m a person that not read much, and like visual things… but now I’m seeing the importance of reading, and the great advantage that it have. How could I create the passion of reading to my kids? First I have to be the model, have a space in the house or in the family that reading is part of normal life! Controlling the visual like, TV, Videogames, computers, is way, creating in the kid a mind, not only technology, but interacting with books, and other stuff. Create in his that computer, TV are resource, not truth methods in which we can trust. Creating a balance since child is the way we can control his reading and technology thing! Reading is an important thing to do, we found reality, history, and is the better way to en
Jennifer Ruiz Hernández
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 sec. 095
September 10, 2007
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
What makes Isabel Allende , “ Reading the History of the World”, essay a narrative/descriptive one is the fact that she is giving us so many details about her reading life and narrating us her own personal story. I mean it’s phenomenal how she gets our attention and interest for reading with such facility. She not only gives us her reading experiences, but she gives us a lot of details about her life. Allende wrote this essay narrating us something very important of her life and she did it describing us her experiences and detailing them, she’s basically narrating us a part of her life.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree with Allenden that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape” (paragraph 1)?
My mom has always loved to read. She grabs a book and she can read it whit such passion it makes it interesting just to see her enjoy what’s she’s reading. Since she was a little girl her mom read to her and taught her great reading habits, she created in her a passion for reading that is just perfectly proportionate. My grandmother read to her fantasy and love stories, stories that she knew where appropriated for her at her age. I want my children to have a passion for reading like my mom does. That’s why I plan to read and sing to my babies since their in my womb, because I’ve heard that’s really productive for a baby. As they get bigger I plan to give them books of their interest, and read whit them those books. I know that if I want them to have good reading habits, I have to get them interested in reading at a young age like Isabel Allende did. Fist, I would read whit them children’s books, books that they pick up themselves, stories they feel attracted to. I will take from every week certain hours to read whit them and certain hours to play whit them. Because they have to have fun to, not everything is reading. Something very important is that I cant expect they would read everyday of the week for long hours, because that can lead them to two things, first that they begin to hate reading instead of loving it or two that they become reading freaks!, and I really don’t want that either because that can bring them problems too. Another thing I would teach them is that as they get older, they have to read more mature thing for their age and dedicate a little more to the reading time.
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
This essay is narrative/descriptive because she uses characteristics of these two types of essay. From descriptive she is specific, she don’t let pass a detail that helps the readers to imagine in a better way the write. From narrative she put hers experiences in the essay and tells the readers that they should continue reading.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television habits? Do you agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”?
I don’t like the idea of do a “reading plan” for my children. I would let them read with them what they choose to read. I will not leave reading development only to the teachers because I will read with them and study with them because it is my responsibility too. The key for reading is letting the children or whatever person to choose the theme of what they are going to read. Because is the person isn’t interested in that theme the person will not read it with enthusiasm. I think that the television depending on what the person is seeing is more educational than read. But in reading you have the magic of the imagination that recreates your mind. There have to be a balance between both things. I agree with Allende because the infinite landscape is the great imagination that is used in reading.
Pablo M. Rodriguez Torres
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103 sec. 095
September 10, 2007
Brian Salamo
Prof. Diaz
INGL3103 SEC.095
Sept 10, 2007
1) It is descriptive narratives because of the way she tells a story about her experiences in reading and describes it with clear a logical descriptions. You are able to understand well her point of view and maybe put yourself in her position. She narrates her opinion about reading and for further understanding she describes it in not very simple but detailed ways.
2) I would obviously not leave the reading development to teachers only; reading is a great source of knowledge for everybody. Parents should practice reading exercises with their children because children do what they are told but they do more what they see you do. A child that sees his parents reading he will have a high probability of been interested in reading. People also have to keep in mind that not every child would like reading even though they are exposed to it in a very early age. Many children are more interested in other stuff that might use visual aid rather than reading. I would regulate a Childs television time but I would control more the contents of what he is watching rather than the time. Show him educative channels not so much child like education but average educational programs for example I would show him or her discovery channel rather than discovery kids. He will have a hard time understanding the content, but kids are curious and they will find a way to understand what they are watching. Show him maybe a show or two about cartoons but for entertainment take him outside to the park where he can develop himself in the real world and apply what he has learned instead of having him in a fiction like life where he only thinks about “poke on”. I do agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape” but to my personal opinion I would rather show my child first hand experience and thoughts a little more than reading experience.
Thinking Critically
1> What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
“Reading the History of the World” is a narrative descriptive essay due to the presence of certain literary features. The most important one is the use of sensory details, such as using the five senses to illustrate what she’s writing. It is also written in passive voice, which is also considered a dominant characteristic of this type of essay due to the presence of personal opinions and experiences of the author. We also see some literary figures in the essay, such as personifications, metaphors and similes, which imply more descriptive details and a better vision of what is being narrated. Summarizing, Isabel Allende’s essay is a perfect example of a well elaborated narrative and descriptive essay.
2> Question #8 pg.158
Reading is very important in life. Throughout reading we can accomplish so many things and learn so much. I’ve always told my mom and dad that they should’ve motivated me more to read so I would had created the habit being a little one, but as many of the cases the television won, haha. So saying that, yes I would definitely motivate and help my children to read, and not to only do so but to enjoy it. Expressing the importance of this habit is also necessary due to when children don’t understand the reason or purpose about his actions they tend to view it as an obligation of imposition.
My opinion about television has changed drastically in these two past months. People view television as a entertainment and informative source, but it is so much more than that. It involves the communication of thoughts, ideas, good and bad habits, hidden messages, and social impositions. Children don’t know how to make decisions of their own in their young age, so they tend to use what they see of their parents and surroundings to take those decisions. Due to that, the television is no longer a family rated media, in absolutely every channel there is something adult rated. Children shouldn’t watch television until they at least know right from wrong, which usually happens between the ages of seven and ten years old. Parents at the end basically let their children view television, but I’d prevent it as long as possible by restricting my children’s access to it.
I once saw this episode in the ABC Family Television series “Smallville” where this boy had an advanced growth disorder, and in days he became an adult and finally died. The first growth period he had happened when he was a newborn, aging from a newborn to 8 years old. When this occurred, he started reading books while his parents were consulting some professional doctors. In the little time he spent reading he learned a vast variety of things. He even set his dreams and goals in life, and later on figured he had a problem and his inevitable death.
Reading can indeed open children’s minds into an immense infinite landscape.
By: Emanuel Sanchez Santiago
Yeiram Martinez
Prof. Sharon Diaz
Ingl. 3103 Sec. 095
Sepetember 12, 2007
Questions:
1. What makes Isabel Ayende's essay a narrative/ descriptive essay is the way that she narrates her own experiences through the essay. It's also a descriptive essay because she describes her feelings towards reading and what reding means to her.
2. I wouldn't leave my kids to learn their reading skills from their teachers or clases because the teachers only theach them to read certain things. I'd like my kids to learn a large variety of information besides the on taught in the classroom. For example, let's say my kids never watch television, and only learn from the assignment given at school, but what if I wan't for them more than that? What if what they learn in school is not enough? You must wonder, enough for what? Well enough to know a real good detailed history of the most important facts in history, and give them the ability to choose smart readings, and give them desire to read. I also want my kids to what television, because they can learn from a large variety of history or science programs. So in a general view of my thoughts, i'd like my kids to do their school work with excellence, and to learn outside of school, learn things school dosen't cover with full detail or doesn't cover at all. By giving them the opportunity to learn what the want, they don't get bored of school work, get educated in two completely different enviroments but with his teachers and his parents allways there to guide them.
Ghilmarie Lugo
Prof. Sharon Díaz
English 3103 Sec. 095
September 10, 2007
Questions:
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
Isabel Allendes essay "Reding the history of the world" is narrative/descriptive because she, the author, is narrating a story of her life, and also because she is talking in first person. It is descriptive because the author describes in her own words what is reading for her and how she started involving and loving books. Giving the reader a descriptive story of her life trying to transmit us her pasionate feeling for books.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusively to teachers? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree with Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape” (paragraph 1)?
I'm not a person that reads a book because I like it, I read when I am asked. My parents haven't been able to created in me the loving for books. My father doesn't like reading, but my mother have always love it since my grandma taught her the importance and advantages of it. She has also try to taught this in my sisters and I, but it doesn't work. Through this last years of education I have seen the importance of reading and feel bad that I don't have this passion as my mother and grandma have. If I would have a reading plan since kid, or I would read for enjoyment I'll be more educated like having a more extended vocabulary, have more knowledge for things, this is why I plan to read to my kids since they are born. This way little by little I can create in them love for books instead of see them as something not much entertaining. I will not leave this only to teachers because it is something that has to be learn at home. Although I will like them to read because they want to, there have to be a balance. Teach them to divide their time into studing, sports, dance, socializing, entertainment, and reading. Reading open a person's imagination.
Montero 1
Giovanna N. Montero Castillo
Prof. Sharon Diaz
English 3103, sec: 095
September 7, 2007
Assignment
Essay: Reading the history of the world
By: Isabel Allende
1. What is it that makes the essay a narrative/descriptive essay?
What makes Isabel Allende is that her essay is like a telling a small story. For example when she tells about her uncle and what he did, another thing is when she tells briefly a little bit of her family. The part that shows that is descriptive is when she tells about the impressions and how things were and are. Another thing is that a narrative and descriptive essay relies on a personal voice and Isabel uses her own voice on the essay by telling how reading has been something important in her life.
2. Imagine a reading plan for your children, and write about it. Will you leave reading development exclusive? How will you regulate your child’s reading and television viewing habits? Do you agree whit Allende that reading can open children to “an infinite landscape”?
I believe the plan for reading I would make for my children would joust basically be to read them every day since their birth and teaching them to read young so this way they can start seen what they like and read about it so they can learn about
Montero 2
everything. No, I would not leave the development of my children to joust teachers I would help on their development. I don’t believe I would regulate their reading and television habit. I would regulate them by giving certain hours for certain things so they do a bit of everything but at the same time not overdoing it. Yes I do agree whit Allende when she expresses that reading can open to children “an infinite landscape”.
There are book of so many things and full of so much information it’s hard to believe that something has not been written. Reading is like traveling you see places that are amazing. Reading is a great way of letting children know about everything that is possible and unbelievable. Other things that children can do whit books is learn to be logical because they have more information wish means more knowledge about life and the world.
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Thanks for writing this.
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