Reading Academic English (Judy Rapoport, Ronit Broder, Sarah Feingold)
The tittle is “Teaching for Character and Community”
Reading is activities when you read letter by letter, word by word, one by one in a text. You would like know the meaning of the text and new knowladge.
Talk about reading, for this opportunities I would like to answer from questions page 68-69.
A. How much did you understand?
1. What kind of violence is increasing in schools?
Answer :
Kind of violence increasing in schools are extreme schools violence, the insident ect.
2.Acording the writer, what do teacher do with regard to the increase in the violence in the schools? What should they do?
Answer :
Teachers should do bring weapons to schools and killing and injuring classmates and teachers have increased.
3. Explain the sentence : “No consistent demographic profile emerged of the attackers.”
Answer :
Some have histories of neglet, but other came from intact families; some were failing in school, but other were excellent students.
4. What do many of those involved in the school violence have in common?
Answer :
More than three quatres
5.What are some of the factors that causes these student to be violent?
Answer :
Young people turn from parents to peers for social and psychological support. They are in the bottom of the social pecking order.
6. What does the writer mean by : “walking upstream”?
Answer :
That educators must attempt violence alter the process by which student form themselves into subgroups-a hierarchy that promotes the isolation of some adolescents who may turn to violance out of the desperation and a desire for revenge.
7. Why it is important for educators to include the teaching of character in the school curriculum?
Answer :
Because it has made character education-the teaching of caring, respect, and common virtues-a high priority curriculum.
8. What are the “common virtues” that the autors includes in character education?
Answer :
There are personal, relationship, and community.
9. What the two approches to fostering character and communityin the schools?
Answer :
There are curricular and instructional.
10. Explain the strategy call “paraphrase passport”. What are the advantages of using such of trategy in the teaching literature?
Answer :
The strategy before the students analyzes a literature, their teacher might introduce the to an instructional.theb advantages are a better understanding of others’ view point, become more emphatic, and improve ther listening skills.
11. Why is the intructional approach more powerful?
Answer :
Because students practice the virtues daily. If the students have a lesson on understanding or honesty in the fail and then move on to discuss different virtues.
12. Choose one example of “Structure for Community and Character”, and explain it briefly.
Answer :
Folded and split Agree-disagree line-up.
To explore controvelsial subject-for example, the moral and scientific issues inderlying President Bush’s deision to support limited research on human embryonic stem cells.
After student read the topic, they line-up acording they agreement with the following their statement so that, they have agreement and disagreement with their statement itself. So that, student learn respect and understanding of the point of view, and practice moral reasoning and couorage to stand up for their own conviertions.
13. What are some of the positif effect of making character education part of intruction?
Answer :
There are some positif effect making character education part of intrusction; the structures help avoid the testing trap, structures increas engagement, structure help students practice character and virtues.
B. Text Analysis Questions
1. “Well intentioned educators heave rsponded to this crisis by jumping into the river...”
Explain the metaphor, referring to paragraphs 1 & 2.
Answer :
As they pull out the victim, they sport failing about.
2. What explaination does the writer give for students being “singled out for harassement and isolation? " (paragraph 5 & 6)
Answer :
Young people turn from parents to peers for social and psychological support. They are in the bottom of the social pecking order.
3. What is the purpose of the Columbine example in the paragraph 6? Whar does is demontrade?
Answer :
To give explain example.
4. What does the writer present in the paragraph 8 and what the function does it serve?
Answer :
Result of the reseachers and the function is to give result
“nothing less than the basic social fabric of our society is at stake”. Expalin the santence.
5. "Nothing less than the basic social fabric of our society is at stake."
Explain this sentence in the context of paragraphs 9 & 10.
Answer :
Nothing society of the basic social fabric must less because we have to increase the education of character the students.
6. List the “common virtues” that the autors think should be include in the character education (paragraph 11 & 12)
Answer :
Personal
Relationship
community
7. List the explain the advantage of “embedding character education in instruction”. (Paragraphs 27-31)
Answer :
The structures help avoid the testing trap
structures increas engagement
structure help students practice character and virtues.
8. What is the aim of the article?
Answer :
To explain teaching for character and community
Next Quetion (Vocabulary)
Prefixes; implisict, exclude, underlying, transition, interact, cooperative, community
4. CLOSE READING
A. Vocabulary
1. Prefixes: Underline the prefixes in these words. What meaning do they signal?
implicit, exclude, underlying, transition, interact, cooperative, community
Answer :
"Some had histories of neglect, but others came from intact families." (paragraph 3)
The word refer to incidents of extreme school violence.
2. Substitute words: What do the underlined words refer to?
Answer :
"When they include structures as part of their curriculum for community and character, educators go a long way..." (paragraph 32)
The word refer to the teachers.
B. Verb form : What do the underlined verb forms denote? Circle your choice.
1. "Kids would burn their lighters and then press the hot metal against his neck." (paragraph 4)
Answer :
Condition / past habit
2. "If instead their teacher were to lecture about the poem, students would be far less likely to develop..." (paragraph 16)
Answer :
condition / past habit
C. Sentence Structure :
Look at these sentences and follow the instructions.
1. "The most important finding to emerge from the study was that more than three-quarters of those who had resorted to extreme school violence had a grievance." (paragraph 4)
Answer :
- Underline all the verbs. Which one is the main verb of the sentence?
The main verb of the sentence is most important finding
- What was the most important finding of the study?
The most important finding of the study was that more than three-quarters of those who had resorted to extreme school violence had a grievance.
- Who had a grievance?
They who had resorted to extreme school violence.
2. "Educators have been reluctant to engage in character education for fear that parents would object." (paragraph 13)
Paraphrase this sentence twice, beginning with the words given:
Answer :
-Because educators have been reluctant to engage in character education.
-Educators are afraid that if the parents would object.
D. Modal verbs: What do the underlined modals mean? Circle your choice.
1. "We must not fail to address the lack of character and virtues in today's youth." (paragraph 10)
prohibition / lack of necessity
2. "A student who has one or two lessons on kindnes may or may not be kind." (paragraph 30)
permission/ possibility
E. Passive: Underline the passive verb in this quotation.
Then paraphrase it, beginning with the words given.
"For many students, character and virtues will be acquired in school - or not at all".(page 62)
Answer :
For many students school is the place to get character and virtues.
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