lunes, 25 de agosto de 2008
More than Words...
I am going to introduce “Ways of Seeing”. This is an interesting book which makes you think about how significant seeing is. Paintings and pictures produce significant feelings and sensations in your present according to your past. Most of the time, these feelings and sensations are hard to describe with words because of the strength of them. In the case of paintings, at the beginning, these made people believe that they were the centre of the world. However, important inventions, as camera and video camera, were going to change History. As these inventions could reproduce paintings, the way of how men painted and looked at them changed. As a result, paintings could be seen not only from one person’s perspective but from many too. Since then men had to have in mind that they could see and could be seen too.Furthermore, it seems to be incredible that people gave paintings, especially religious paintings, a market value to keep its spiritual value which had been lost after camera’s invention. On the other hand, what you see is what you want to see. The experiences that you have already lived make you feel attracted to specific things. You take a picture of a specific landscape from a specific place, because it called your attention due to meaningful experiences from your past.In conclusion, what you observe in the present has a constant relation to what you saw in the past. Something similar happens with education, because you can apply to your present the knowledge that you got from your past. Due to that I mentioned before, I have acquired, as a future teacher, as the knowledge as the mission to make significant changes for a better Chilean education’s quality.
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First, I like the title; it remains me a beautiful song... It is kind of poetic, actually.
Afterwards, I think it is very concise as a summary has to be; it includes all the important issues present in the text.
Finally, it is very good the relation you make with education, because that is the main idea to relate everything we read with us as future teachers.
Good work!
Hi Mónica,
Your summary is very well structured. You´ve managed to capture the main and most important ideas of the text and put them in words.
Your conclusion is very powerful. Clearly you´ve related the text to your own experience (present and past), and have even gone further to make the relationship between your past knowledge/experience and your future as en English teacher. Not only that, you´ve also referred to how you would use that knowledge to improve education and equality in the future. Well done!!
Claudia
Monica, I think your presentation was pretty good. You did a good organization of the main points. Even though I have the feeling that you could make a deeper analysis.
A part for this, you presentation was good.
food job.happy face :)
About the Stonehenge article...
It was very interesting to know that experts think Stonehenge was a centre of healing. This due to the evidence that has uncovered that the sick people who went Stonehenge was expecting to be cure. Moreover, one of the things that made me shudder was to think about how the terrible primitive surgery should be, due to the terrible evidence that some skeletons showed. Also, while I was reading I enjoyed learning a little bit about the known bluestones which compose Stonehenge and how people who believed in its healing properties created amulets to be protected.
Comment about “The Anglo Saxon invasion 449AD”...
I decided to comment about “The Anglo Saxon invasion 449AD” due to the significant events that were developed mainly according to language during this period. As British were weak due to the fall of the Roman Empire, it asked Germanic tribes for help. Then Germanic tribes among which were Angles, Saxons and Jutes arrived and became aggressive to stay there not just for helping, but with the purpose of living and rule British too. As a result, a lot of native speakers moved away to Cornwall, Wales and Cumbria where the languages which were spoken in these places were developed except for the Celtic one. Celtic was the only culture which preferred to leave British lands, instead of living under the Anglo Saxons rules.
According to language, Roman Empire did not leave a significant Latin Language legacy, but the Christian missioners who arrived later did. In fact, many religious manuscripts were written in Latin which was very important because it meant the first step to open the doors of literacy world.
Furthermore, words were pronounced as they were heard. This made me to think about how incredible and magic language is. Even though, they did not follow a grammatical nor spelling structure they could communicate with each other as well. You can see what I mentioned recently through Old English…
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