Word Processing in the classroom

The word processing program is one of computer program that can we implemented in beginning. Word processor has been familiar to the teachers and learners. Some of them know how to create, save and store the document. Word processor can be used by both teacher and students. The teacher use processing program to prepare, create, store and share materials for their classes. The teacher can use word processing program for correcting, editing, and providing feedback the learners, digitally submitted written work. They can also give a lot of activity by word processor, such as writing, language practice, dictations, presenting work, noticing activity, and collaborative writing. The learners can use word processing program outside of classroom.

I think word processing program is very useful for teachers and learners. It can be more interesting. It will bring the student to the technology’s era

Julius Caesar

Author : William Shakespeare
time : Elizabethan period
Published : Francis Meres
year : 1598

the summary:

The story begins when Julius Caesar roles Roman. He is growing too powerful. But he is an arrogant king. Cassius, who fears Caesar ever growing power, begins to recruit Brutus.They have planed to kill Caesar. A fortune teller tells Caesar beware. But Caesar is too arrogant person. Brutus and Cassius plan is success, Caesar dies. Brutus and Cassius explain to the roman citizen why they kill Caesar and gaining their support. Using the immortal words, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" Mark Antony (Caesar’s Right hand man) turns the citizens of Rome against Brutus and Cassius by making the citizens feel remorse for Caesar's cruel death and by bribing then with the news that Caesar's will gifts each citizen money from his will. Mark Antony uses this fact to suggest Caesar was a great man who should not have been murdered.The crowd, now an angry, crazed mob, go after the conspirators including Brutus and Cassius who flee in fear. This conflict grows up become a big war between the triumvirs (mark Antony and Octavius) and Conspiracy (Brutus and cassius). Cassius gets a lie’s report, and lose Cassius’s force ground from Mark Antony’s force. Fells guilty, Cassius kills himself. Brutus is captured, but he inspires his men to keep fighting. Brutus feels tired, weary, but still alive. Finnaly Brutus kills himself by his sword. Octavius, Mark Antony, Messala and Lucilius now arrive. Strato explains how Brutus died. Mark Antony pays tribute to Brutus' noble spirit by famously saying, "This was the noblest Roman of them all..." Octavius tells his soldiers to stand down, the battle now over.

Technology in the classroom

Technology in Language Teaching

Technology in language teaching is not new. Tape recorders, language laboratories, and video have been in use since the 1960s and 1970s. In the early 1980s Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is appeared. CALL has moved beyond the use of computer programs. TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) appeared in the 1990s, in response to the growing possibilities offered by the internet and communications technology. Younger learners are growing up with technology and integrated part of their lives. There is some reason for using technology:
- English an international language is being used in technologically mediated context.
- It is a way to bring outside world into the classroom
Using technology in teaching becomes as natural as the use of books or pens and paper.

Attitudes to technology

Many people are afraid of new technology, and with the increasing presence of the internet and computers. But it is appeared new terms, there are:
- Technophobe
It is term of people who might be wary of these developments.
- Digital native
It is the term of people who coined to refer to some one who grows up using technology and who feels comfortable and confident with it-typically today’s children.
- Digital immigrants
It is term of people who have come late to the world of technology, if at all.

Implementing Information Communications Technology (ITC) in the classroom

You will need to use the internet mainly as a resource with your learners
- using websites
- internet-based project work, and a class blog,
- First, you can start with simple tools and projects in class, such as webquest.
- For younger learners, you may want to use some of the ready-made materials and websites available on internet.
- For learners with very low IT skills, a good place to start is with simple word processing task. Try to pair up more technically experienced learners with the absolute novices for any ITC-based class work.
- If the computers are linked to the internet, learners can also be encouraged to work on internet-based project.


Skills and equipment for getting started

The basic skills you do need are how to use simple word processing program, how to access and use internet. Some essential equipment in order to start to implement technology with your learners:
- at least one computer (prefer one per two students)
- an Internet connection
- a printer
- an audio card in the computer, and a headset for every computer
- Basic software (word processing program, web browser, and email program)

Beowulf

Characters:
Beowulf : prince of the Geats
Grendel : the monster killed the warriors who lives at the bottom ofa nearby mere
Mother Grendel : a mother of GrendelKing Hrothgar : the King of the Danes

Time: Old English period


The summary

This is the story about the brave prince with the sincerity heart.Beowulf begins with a history of the great Danish Hrothgar, scyld’s great grandson. He builds a lavish hall, called a Heorot. Danish warriors make a celebration when the hall finished. Grandel appears at the hall late one night and kills thirty of the warriors in theysleep. Beowulf heard about it. He comes and greeted by a members of Hrothgar’s court, and he begins to tears of the Grendel escapes, only to die soon afterward at the bottom ofhis snake-infested mare.
In praise of Beowulf’s triumph, Hrothgar rewards Beowulf with a great store of treasures, when Grendel’s mother is plotting revenge Beowulf preparing to battle, into the sea, Unferth offers him hissword. Beowulf kills the monster with a magician sword, he cuts off the head and returns to land therefore Danes and Great sail home, he tells King Hygelac about the feud between Denmark and their enemies.
Beowulf has been King of Greats when Hygelac is dead. Beowulf died when he fight the dragon because he becomes an old man. He isn’t strong as he was fighting Grendel.
But he can cut the dragon half with his knife. Before he dies he asks Wiglaf tobring him the dragon’s storehouse of treasure. And he instructs him to build a tomb to be known as Beowulf’s tower on theadge of the sea. Wiglaf admonishes the troops who deserted their leader when he was fighting the dragon and tells them they have been untrue to the standard of bravery, courage, and loyalty.

The passionate Shepherd to His love

Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and field,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.

Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

the summary the poetry above:

This poetry talks about his wonder about beautiful world that he saw.it is described it as the new world that he ever found. the world thats full with beautiful life and free from wild life side.

What is Media?

In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. The term can also be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. In the computer world, "media" is also used as a collective noun, but refers to different types of data storage options.

Computer media can be hard drives, removable drives (such as Zip disks), CD-ROM or CD-R discs, DVDs, flash memory, USB drives, and yes, floppy disks. For example, if you want to bring your pictures from your digital camera into a photo processing store, they might ask you what kind of media your pictures are stored on. Are they on the flash memory card inside your camera or are they on a CD or USB drive? For this and many other reasons, it is helpful to have a basic understanding of what the different types of media are .

Teaching Learning Aids

A teaching aid is a tool used by teachers, facilitator, or tutors to

• help learners improve reading and other skills
• illustrate or reinforce a skill, fact, or idea, and
• relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom, since many teaching aids are like game

Kinds of Teaching Learning Aid

Using music:

The use of music in the classroom can make the entire learning process more enjoyable and can stimulate "right" brain learning. Six years ago researchers reported that people scored better on a standard IQ test after listening to Mozart. Other tests soon followed: Rats raised on Mozart run through mazes faster and more accurately. People with Alzheimer's disease function more normally if they listen to Mozart and the music even reduces the severity of epileptic seizures.

Just think of all the times you have used music to help you study for tests, think clearly about something, relax from daily stress, etc. If you think about it, using music in the ESL EFL classroom is a pretty logical thing to do considering how helpful it can be to the learning process.

Using music to introduce an exercise is a great way to activate vocabulary and get students thinking in the right direction.

Chalkboard or whiteboard:
A chalkboard or whiteboard will help you demonstrate and instruct. The best recommendation, if you need to decide between the two would be the whiteboard—they are cleaner than chalkboards by far.

Pointer:
This wand-like supply for teachers has many purposes. A pointer can help you with pointing out certain areas like cities, rivers etc. on large, classroom maps, on overhead projectors and on your whiteboard or chalkboard.

Classroom maps:
Using classroom maps is a great thing to do. Often textbooks will have maps in them, but they will be smaller and harder for the children to read. Sometimes when you have the children look at a map in a book and ask them to find a certain area—not all the children will be able to find it right away and so they will miss out on the lesson while searching. Very seldom will a student raise his or her hand to ask where on the map the class is looking, either out of shyness or embarrassment.

Overhead projector:
To have an overhead projector for the classroom is a wonderful teaching aid, you can even use overhead projectors as a substitute for large, hanging classroom maps. The maps can come in eight and a half by eleven or eight by ten sizes that can be projected into much, much larger maps onto your whiteboard or onto a white canvas in the front of the room. These maps can often be drawn on by an erasable marker (the same you would use for a whiteboard). Thus, there would be no need to use a pointer or to have all those huge roll-up maps to deal with.

Computers
If it is within the budget of your school or learning institution, to have computers in the classroom or even just in a computer lab somewhere in the school is one of the best types of teaching aids you can offer your students. Technology is growing every day—and the more children learn about the basics of—and even excel in school-related educational software programs is almost a necessity these days.

There is also computer software for studying at home. Electronic methods of teaching that can be used in the home as tutorials for students who need help in one or more subjects. There are lots of them out there, so you may want to research which ones will best help the children in your class who have fallen behind. If the software is too costly for the parents, perhaps the school could have this software installed for after-school tutoring.

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Unique american style

With the war of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American work, a number of key new literary figures appeared, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Alan Poe. Irving, often considered the first writer to develop a unique American style (although this is debated) wrote humorous works in Salmagundi and the well-known satire A History of New York. Bryant wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry, which evolved away from their European origins. In 1832, Poe began writing short stories -- including The Masque of the Red Death.

The Masque of the Red Death
Illustration for "The Masque of the Red Death" by Harry Clarke , 1919.
Author : Edgar Alan Poe
Original title :The Mask of the Red Death A Fantasy
Country : United States
Publisher: Graham's Magazine
Publication date :1842

the summary:

The story takes place at the castelleted abbey of the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero. Prospero and one thousand other nobles are taking refuge in a walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague that has been sweeping the land. The symptoms of the Red Death are gruesome to behold: the victim is swept by covulsive agony and sweats blood instead of water. The plague is said to kill within half an hour. Prospero and his court are presented as being indifferent to the sufferings of the population at large, intending to await the ending of the plague in luxury and safety behind the walls of their secure refuge.
One night, Prospero holds a masquered ball to entertain his guests in seven colored rooms of the abbey. Six of the rooms are each decorated and illuminated in a specific color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, and violet. The last room is decorated in black and is illuminated by a blood-red light; because of this chilling pair of colors, few guests are brave enough to venture into the seventh room. Late into the night, Prospero notices one figure in a blood-spattered, dark robe resembling a funeral shroud, with a skull-like mask depicting a victim of the Red Death, which all at the ball have been desperate to escape. Gravely insulted, Prospero demands to know the identity of the mysterious guest so that they can hang him, and when no-one obeys, pursues him with a drawn dagger through the seven rooms until the mysterious figure is cornered in the seventh room, the black room where the windows are tinted scarlet. When the figure turns to face him, the Prince falls dead at a glance. Enraged, the revelers surge into the black room and remove the mask, only to find both it and the costume empty. To the horror of all, the figure reveals itself as the personification of the Red Death itself, and all the guests suddenly contract and succumb to the disease. The final line of the story sums up: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

source:http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/american_literature

American Literature

American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater.

During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on eastern coast of the present day United States. Therefor, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature.

British Literature

British Literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Chanel Island. By far the largest part of this literature is written in the English language, but there are also separate literatures in Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Jerriais, Guernesiais and other languages.

Literature in Celtic language of the islands is the oldest surviving vernacular literature in Europe. The Welsh literary traditional stretches from the 6th century to the 21st century. the oldest welsh literature does not belong to the terrttory we knows as Wales today, but rather to northern England and southern Scotland. But though it is dated to be from the 6th, 7th, 8th, centuries, it has survived only in 13 th- 14th century manuscript copies. irish poetry represent a more or less unbroken tradition from the 6th century to the present day.