***Reminder: Due on Wed., June 27, is the final copy of "Am I an Active Learner?"
Today each person was assigned two mini-lesson topics. Please find out what the rule is for your topic and create 2-3 sentences showing examples of correct usage. You can take one sentence from your Diagnostic essay and show us how to correct it. Here is the link to our webpage that connects to other writing centres for information on the topics: FAL Writing Links . Do not copy information from these sites -- please explain the rules in your own words. Bring these to class on Wed.
Today we also wrote introductions from the key points in the middle of the "hydrogen car" essay. Please rewrite the introduction and e-mail to to Sue by Tuesday night.
Blog question: Thinking about introductions, tell the class about your favorite movie.
12 comments:
Jotie wrote:
My favorite movie has to be 'Saw'." This movie was a horror movie like no
> other. Most horror movies I have watched all are similar and have basically
> the same story line- a serial killer on the loose. The movie, "Saw ", was so
> different because the person who intiated the killing did not actually
> physicaly kill the victims themself. Random people were chosen and were
> kidnapped. These people chosen had to complete a test and usually the test
> consisted of a jig saw puzzle. These people chosen for the test usually
> were drug addicts, cheating husbands, and just people who have been taking
> their life for granteed. If the person who was being tested did not pass,
> he/she would simply die by for example, being locked in a cell for their
> rest of their life. The person who passes would be let loose and he/she
> would never know and have no proof who had kidnapped them. They would simply
> carry on with their life. This is why I say the "head" person, who got the
> name "Jig Saw", did not physically kill no one. People who failed the test
> would die on their own. The moral of the test was to open the eyes of the
> victim and see how much their life was worth to them. I must say the person
> who wrote the script of this horror movie was a genious! Saw was one
> mystery I will never forget!
My favorte movie was Saving Privite Ryan. This movie has been published quite a long time. This movie is basically on history. The background of this movie is World War 2. Ryan has three older brothers,but they all dead in battle field. Thus, US government wants to summon Ryan to go back home safely. This movie contains well descrition of D-day of WW2. This movie may help students who study WW2.
Blog Question.
Thinking about introductions, tell the class about your favorite movie.
Answer.
Our current class topic was on the role and structure of introduction in an essay. That motivated me to understand this blog question as though I need to show the role of introduction on the example of some film. I chose to shortly analyze introductions of three famous films. First two are perhaps known just to Russian speaking audience. The third one is known to the world. My thesis is that in spite of the differences, all of those introductions contain description of time and place, depicting the peculiarities of an epoch and inviting a spectator to lodge comfortably in that context. From this starting point they start developing the content.
The first film “Маленькая Вера” or “Little Vera”, directed by Vasili Pichul, starts by showing landscapes of Ukrainian sea port city of 80’s. Such was epoch of my youth: we hear popular pop songs of that time, see characteristic lifestyle elements and recognize so familiar pre-reconstruction years of former USSR. From here we are ready to follow the plot.
The second film is “Собачье сердце” or “Heart of a Dog”, directed by Vladimir Bortko by the plot of same named Michail Bulgakov’s novel. In the beginning we hear familiar tone of proletarian songs and juicy speech stamps, see ruined buildings and not yet fully transformed lifestyles of tsarist Russia in 1920’s. Thus the author unfolds the dawn of communist era, and the spectator like myself, that had chance to behold just a tip of a tail of that era, is ready to travel back to its roots. Having presented this undecorated realistic context, the author starts showing fantastic component of his plot.
Finally, “Goodfellas”, nominated to be the best film of Martin Scorsese, starts by depicting NY of 1970’s. Just as “Heart of a Dog”, this film goes along main hero’s narrative that begins, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." At this point I identify myself with the hero and feel as if being at that time and place.
The thesis of introduction serving the purpose of placing the audience within specific context may be more characteristic of just a film, but also translates to writing, that our FAL course is about.
P.S. Now I realize I might have misunderstood the role of introduction topic in the question. It probably means to introduce the film to the audience, so that this posting can be a beginning of some essay analyzing the film in more details. I leave it like this anyways because I partly completed this task as well.
Boris Garbuzov, # 972002018, 604-339-9964, bgarbuzo@sfu.ca
My favourite movie is "Spider-man", because I like the actions in the movie. Also, Spiderman can always defeat the bad guys and the ending is always happy. I like to watch movie with simply story line and excellent fighting scenes. Therefore, Spiderman is my favorite movie.
My favorite movie is Cast Away. The movie is about a postal worker who fights for survival on a remote island after a plane crash. The postal worker’s name is Chuck Noland. In the island, he has to learn how to set a fire, get food, and find a place to live. One scene of the movie is really vivid which is Chuck tries to removed a carious tooth by striking hard the back of the hammer to his tooth. From the beginning Chuck is a fat person but at the end (3 years later), he becomes slim. He tries very hard to leave the island in order to meet his girlfriend. Although at the end he successfully returns to his country, his girlfriend is already married to another person and has her own children. After watching the movie, I am upset. However, I believe the storyline is fantastic and Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland so well.
My favorite movie is "My sassy girl". It is a famous Korean love story movie. My friends said the story is true in Korea, and it is also in high school textbook in Korea. The movie was so lovely and funny so that I watched it again and again as many as I couldn't remember. I like to watch Korean movies since then.
My favorite movie has to be "Space am". This movie was a sport comdey. The movie was talking about some aliens from the space trying to invade the earth by the game of basketball. The main character was Micheal Jordan, he was ask to come out of retirement and form a team to play.So, he found the NBA all star to be his teammates. I like the movie because the storyline was exactly my dream. I am a basketball player and it was my dream to play alongside Michael Jordan. So.watching "Space Jam" was like see myself playing ball with Micheal Jordan.Therefore, "Space Jam" was my favorite story.
My favorite movie is called "The day afte tommorow." It is a movie showing us the future if we dont protect our environment now. It shows us what the world would be like if we continue to destroy and polluting our nature. It is a very good movie teaching us how important our environment is.
As technology and quality of living fast improved, movies have become an indivisible part of nowadays people’s lives. Even though people may not have chance to watch all the movies in the theaters, they will still watch them by renting DVD or even watch them on TV. Among those movies I have ever seen, the movie,”CLICLK” impressed me the most.
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