![]() ![]() Read books out loud to them that they would not find easy to read on their own, but also read easier books out loud for sheer enjoyment. The more you read to them, the higher their level of reading and comprehension climbs. ![]() ![]() Even older students benefit from and enjoy listening to books. Reading plays a major role in brain development.ĭo you want to raise your students’ reading level? Read out loud to them.ĭo you want to improve your students’ listening skills? Read out loud to them. Quality literature encourages reading, because it is hard to put a good book down.What you read is a major factor determining who you will become.Paragraph Writing Reading List Recommended for Ages 14 - 16 High School level course: Grades 9 - 11 (The Write Foundation Writing Curriculum) Why read quality literature? It matters what you read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For his journalistic and human rights projects he has won the 2006 Hellman/Hammett Grant from Human Rights Watch, and a 2007 Freedom Award from the Afghanistan Civil Society Forum. Hazar also has served as a radio journalist and editor. Today, then, I am posting a poem-about writing and so much more-by an Afghan poet, Kamran Mir Hazar (1976-), who has garnered internatioal praise for his poetry, his journalism, and his political efforts to promote human rights and civil society in Afghanistan.Ī member of the Hazara people, and poet and journalist in Dari and Hazaragi, Kamran Mir Hazar founded and has edited the websites Kabul Press and Refugee Face, the former of which the governments of Afghanistan and Iran block access to. About Afghan literature, I would imagine our knowledge remains as minimal as ever. The war, or something approximating one, grinds on drones ply the skies over Khost Afghan people, like the coalition soldiers, are still dying and suffering serious psychological and physical injuries the government there teeters on.the brink? I would venture that most Americans know as little about Afghanistan today, save for the names of a few cities- Kabul, Kandahar, Mazari Sharif-and politicians- Hamid Karzai-than we did before the war began. The US has occupied Afghanistan for a decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() The answer, not surprisingly, is revealed in his own, previous texts-a sort of intimate intertextuality. So what, then, is the 83-year-old’s objective for his seventh major work of fiction? What, assuming Numero Zero speaks to readers through opera aperta, or the open work approach to interpretation (a semiotic device), is Eco trying to say? This is almost certainly intentional, as a writer as vigorous and a philosopher as significant as Eco did not become lazy and deficient overnight. In Numero Zero Umberto Eco describes the debauched practice of news-making, and in so doing the renowned semiotician, prominent thinker and celebrated author of The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery and Foucault’s Pendulum delivers a novel as shallow as the exercise he satirizes. Umberto Eco Having a Laughīuy now: Amazon ] Kindle ] ![]() ![]() Milan Kundera is certainly an intellectual whose “ideas had the force of a bomb exploding” for the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and even beyond. Ideas spread like wildfire and have the capacity to show the oppressed people how abject an ideology can be, thus making the empire which rests upon it totter. It even powerfully resonates in the mind when it concerns the dissident intellectual, morally fighting against the authoritarian or totalitarian regime, a fight which promises only disgrace or forced exile, at best. This sentence inevitably evokes the role of the intellectual, writer, poet, painter, scientist, in contemporary societies. ![]() “Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding”. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Famous last words!)ĭespite their best efforts, the group becomes separated into smaller groups. ![]() Yuruichi cautions them to stay together inside the Seireitei and avoid confrontations with anyone of captain level. ![]() An intruder alarm interrupts the discussion, as everyone rushes out to see what’s happening.Īfter a short rest, the team is ready to be catapulted into the Seireitei! Kûkaku warns them that they must keep their focus and not let their energy level grow too strong. ![]() When the Head Captain asks for an explanation, Gin has none to give. The captains question Gin as to how and why he let a ryoku past him, although Gin seems unconcerned by their anger. The Thirteen Court Guard Squad captains and their lieutenants have been instructed to assemble in full insignia. Ganju confronts Ichigo and demands to know why he is working so hard to save a soul reaper. When the others stop to eat, Ichigo persists in continuing with his training and Ganju remains, to Ichigo’s annoyance. But they all have to be able to create a reishukaku – a spirit core – which means training for everyone. What use is that? Turns out she plans to use her expertise to launch them through the sphere that surrounds their target. Ichigo is confused when he learns that the person who is going to help them get into the Seireitei is a fireworks expert. Format/Genre/Length: Paperback/Manga/Supernatural/208 pages ![]() |