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SUMMARY
HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD
The
poem refers the suppressed grief of a woman when his husband is brought died at
home, he was a warrior. She was shocked and she couldn’t show any emotion.
The
maidens thought that she would have to cry otherwise she would die of grief.
First they began to praise the warrior calling him a true fried and noble foe,
but she did not react. Then the maids lifted the cloth covering his face but
she also continued in the same state of shock.
Finally
an old nurse takes her son and puts him in her lap and she began to cry and
said her son “sweet my child, I live for thee” showing how much she loved her
husband and how much she loves his son.
TO THE QUEEN
The
poem seems to be like an allocution to the land of England and the importance
of loyalty to the Queen whose defense has cost so many lives, prayers, all
coming from the living love of the British people through generations ( “loyal to their crown are loyal to their own
far sons, who love our ocean-empire with her boundless homes for ever –
broadening England”).
Later
on the poet seems to refer to a kind of struggle within each man’s soul,
between the ideal and the real man. He finally expresses his reject to anti
values such as cowardice ( “the child of lust for gold”), for example.
AN ECOLOGY
OF HOUSES
The
exact image about nature probably varies from person to person. Some of them
bring to mind a landscape without being adulterated by human presence. The
image doesn’t include people in either make-shift encampment or permanent
residence. Nature, it is thought, is not our houses, nor does it exist in our
backyards.
We
have inherited an image of nature invented by 19th century American
romantics, after Native Americans were forcefully removed from the landscape
and put onto reservation. This is one way in which nature has been constructed
in our imagination. However, nature is and always has been everywhere humans
have ever lived or at least partially constructed by human activity. This
process has and has had implications for human evolution by altering the
process of natural selection; this process is called ecological niche construction.
The
principal cause of the changing landscape in the United States has been
suburban sprawl, i.e. the construction of strip malls, roads, especially
housing along the outskirts of cities.
In
1950 many cities lost residents, they moved to the newly constructed houses
outside of the city. Land that was previously used for farming or was covered
with forest was converted to residential neighborhoods, which had a principal
impact on the local and global environment.
Global
environment: this expansion contributed
to global warming due to increase emissions from cars being the primary mode of
transportation outside of urban areas, increasing energy consumption for the
heating and cooling of suburban houses.
Local
environment: consequence of resource extraction (oil drilling, natural gas, coal
mining) the water is contaminated. Beside sprawl is directly linked to water
depletion.
Actually
we are facing enormous environmental problems therefore the construction should
not only be for short term economic growth, we simultaneously construct and are
constructed by the environment and we envelop and are enveloped by it.
TECHNOLOGY / ROBOTS
This
article refers at the Biologist Robert Full’s lab in the University of
California, Berkeley, where he has different animals such as crabs, centipedes,
geckos. These animals serve as inspirations for his colleagues and him in building
robots that are fast, steady and agile.
Full
analyzed the lizards to designing a resistant robot, he observed African agama
lizards which have ability to stick a perfect landing after vaulting through
the air and they keep their balance during flight moving their tails up and
down to counteract the motion of their bodies, then he thought how he could
apply that technique to search and rescue robots in precarious terrain. In this
way Full and his team built a four wheeled, foot long vehicle with a stiff tail
section and it was named “Tailbot”
The
analysis of the lizards also led him into unfamiliar territory: paleontology.
Full made a mathematical model of how the velociraptor moved, based on its bone
structure and he discovered that the raptors were probably as good or better
than lizards, but he can never confirm his theory.
He
able to assess the motion of the computer-generated raptors in the film
Jurassic Park. He says that it moves its tail perfectly.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
LESSON PLAN CATEDRA I
CONCLUSION
The teaching-learning process has been
described as a whole element which is close related to the components of
Metacognition, these are metacognitive awareness, metacognitive regulation and
metacognitive experiences. This means that metacognition includes knowledge
about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or solving
problems. Therefore, to plan every class is essential and very necessary for
teachers and learners. The Lesson Plan is the tool the teacher focuses his/her
knowledge to be given to the students. The content is organized to save time
and optimize the teaching process according to the sources and the students’
interest.
The lesson plan is created for the
student of Second grade of Secondary school. Students will be able to achieve
objectives proposed in this project, because all the activities are adapted and
designed according to their reality. The textbook that the teacher uses for
this level is a little bit difficult for them, so it is crucial to adapt and
omit constantly activities which most of them are in an upper level. We
considered that students can be engaged by showing some videos according to the
grammatical content that they have to learn as an interesting way of learning.
As future teachers, we must model the
class in order to monitor the students what they are learning. We could use
some tricks to help students learn when teaching lessons. These tools might be games,
songs, online pages, videos, several worksheets, crossword puzzles, etc. This
will help them remember during more time when information is connected to
something else.
Methodology’s classes have been very
useful to achieve this difficult task. Through this subject we can analyze the
textbooks and decide on the activities that are suitable for students.
Moreover, we can apply some criteria in order to recognize when omitting,
adapting, replacing and adding.
To conclude, we are concerned how
important is to have clear the concept of metacognition to our careers, because
this concept is immersed in the teaching-learning process. With Metacognition
the students learn through self regulation to know what way is the best to
study for them. Therefore, they know what kind of intelligence accommodates to
them. These intelligences or learning styles are: visual, auditory and
kinesthetic. To teach in public schools is not as easy as someone could think.
This is a real challenge for us, and we will do our best to achieve this.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8CI22jdT8ghSzNCTUhDYnpubHM
http://prezi.com/khxz8bswkm5r/presentation-1/
http://prezi.com/cbjrhy6oxt0a/presentation-2/
VIDEOS
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlkG4QDeSA
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOVNicsZ0qQ&feature=youtu.be
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-xOY9abXY&feature=plcp
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-JrLL_skM&feature=youtu.be
Monday, August 27, 2012
Textbook activity
The textbook is a very
useful tool when teaching English. It guides us as teachers how to teach a
matter and it gives the students some resources where they can find valuable
information to develop their English skills. In this work there are some changes
that we decided to make in order to improve the quality of activities, but in
general, this texbook "English as a Second Language" is a very
complete work, which is well designed for intermediate students who are
interested on learning English.
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