Main Idea: The central or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. It may also be described as the controlling idea, and, as such, it set the direction of the paragraph or article.
Supporting Details: Facts and secondary ideas that an author uses to develop and support and main idea
Context Clues: includes the sentence, paragraph, or passage that surround a word and make it meaningful.
Author's Purpose: The reason or intant in writing
Author's Overall Organizational Pattern: Authors try to present their ideas in some clearly organized way. They do this by arranging the supporting details in some common pattern.
Facts and Opinion: A fact is a statement that can be validated or proven to be true or false by using measurements, historical or scientific documents, or even personal observation. By this definition, a fact is not always accurates or correct.
An opinion is a statement that expresses an author's beliefs, judgements, and values. It expressed a point of view and cannot be proven.
Bias: Is a predispostion, prejudice, or prejudgment; bias may be in favor of or against something or someone.
Tone: An author's toneis the attitude or feeling he creates in writnig about his subject, the reader can recognize a mood or feeling in written material in the same way as he would recognize a mood or feeling from a speaker's tone of voice.
Relationship Within Sentences: Sentences comprehension may involve recognizing the relationship between parts of a sentence.
If the relationship within the sentence is explicit (stated), transition words and phrased will be used.
If the relationship within the sentence is implicit (unstated), the reader must infer the relationship.
This skill is related to identifying the author's overall organizational pattern. Some of the same patterns and transitions learned in recognizing organizational patterns will be useful in recognizing relationship within sentences.
Some types of relationships, along with transitions that help identify them, are:
Addition- again, also, and, besides, further, furthermore in addition, moreover
Clarification- as a matter of fact, clearly, evidently, in fact, in other worda obviously, of course.
Relationship Between Sentences: Paragraph and passage comprehension is improved by recognizing how one sentence relates to another sentence; such relationship may be explicit (stated) or implicit (unstated)
The same signal words and transitions are used as are found in working with relationship withinn sentences.
Valid Arguments: An argument involves reasons or evidence to support a conclusion or statement.
Inference and Conclusion: an inference is what a reader think the writer is suggesting through the words or ideas presented.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
My Life Story
Hi, my name is Antonine Garcon, born in Miami, FL in Jackson Memorial Hospital. I am haitian, American cuban, I'm a mutt. My mother was born in in America but raise in Haiti. And as for my father he's haitian cuban. As for sibling I have five sisters and had three brothers but two past away. Being the youngest of all my siblings played a big role in my life. My life was not an easy one growning up there were a lot of ups and down. The way my mind is function right now is the only way not to drive me crazy. There been alot of past experiences that made me who I am today.
I still remember the first day I entered elementary school I was terrified. I didn't know anybody in my class. But as time past it couldn't been better I enjoyed every single day of it. Until the end of the school came up I found out I was getting tranfered to another school. I didn't want to move but I sure enough didn't have a say so about it. So when the new school year came around it felt like it was my first day in school all over again. And again I adjust but i found out my mother had plan to tranfer me again. So and again we moved to another house and school. And every school I been to I end up fighting somebody for some reason. To be honest I remember all the school I been to in counting it been seven elementay schools.
The only time I stayed in one school for long was junior high also known as middle school. That's where I met all my friends, Westview middle school was a whole different experince for me. My favorite subject there was math. In middle school my world was revolve around my friends and math. If I'm not with a friend I'm with a math teacher asking a question. Everything was actually going perfect no drama, stress free. three years past real quick when you having fun, our final year came.
Next thing I knew I was going to start high school. I attend Miami Central Senior High. My best year out there was my freshman year I guess thats when the school grade average didn't go down yet. The following years everything change some say it didn't it was just me. In my junior year i planned to join some clubs or sports but all the good sports was filled with girls with drama. So the only sport left was soccer. I played for most of the season unti I had to quick due to my job. When I became a senior I had OJT so I had to find a sport that don't take most of my time so I joined bowling. And before I knew it graduation came up.
So now i'm here in miami dade college trying to get my two years. To be honest when attending high school college never cross my mind. But in life to go far you need a higher education. so now I'm hear trying to make better of myself. I need an education that will bring me far in my major. So by coming here I'm hoping I'll find that.
I still remember the first day I entered elementary school I was terrified. I didn't know anybody in my class. But as time past it couldn't been better I enjoyed every single day of it. Until the end of the school came up I found out I was getting tranfered to another school. I didn't want to move but I sure enough didn't have a say so about it. So when the new school year came around it felt like it was my first day in school all over again. And again I adjust but i found out my mother had plan to tranfer me again. So and again we moved to another house and school. And every school I been to I end up fighting somebody for some reason. To be honest I remember all the school I been to in counting it been seven elementay schools.
The only time I stayed in one school for long was junior high also known as middle school. That's where I met all my friends, Westview middle school was a whole different experince for me. My favorite subject there was math. In middle school my world was revolve around my friends and math. If I'm not with a friend I'm with a math teacher asking a question. Everything was actually going perfect no drama, stress free. three years past real quick when you having fun, our final year came.
Next thing I knew I was going to start high school. I attend Miami Central Senior High. My best year out there was my freshman year I guess thats when the school grade average didn't go down yet. The following years everything change some say it didn't it was just me. In my junior year i planned to join some clubs or sports but all the good sports was filled with girls with drama. So the only sport left was soccer. I played for most of the season unti I had to quick due to my job. When I became a senior I had OJT so I had to find a sport that don't take most of my time so I joined bowling. And before I knew it graduation came up.
So now i'm here in miami dade college trying to get my two years. To be honest when attending high school college never cross my mind. But in life to go far you need a higher education. so now I'm hear trying to make better of myself. I need an education that will bring me far in my major. So by coming here I'm hoping I'll find that.
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