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Written by a G10 student:
Bill Cosby Reads
Sifting through thousands of reading techniques to help him read faster, Bill Cosby, at a young age, discovered three techniques which would help him read faster throughout his life. These three techniques helped a young Bill through his numerous comic books and helped a much older Bill get through university with success.
Wanting to encourage young kids to read, Bill kindly shared these techniques with the whole world. The three reading techniques, previewing, skimming and reading in clusters, should help kids go through boring parts of books in a breeze without missing the key details.
Previewing – the tool to decide whether or not to read a book. This technique requires the reader to read the first and last two paragraphs as well as the topic sentence in each successive paragraph. Given that the topic sentence defines the topic of its paragraph, one can understand the context of the book through his and decide whether or not the book is wroth a read.
The second technique, skimming, is probably used many teenagers who would like to get past the reading forced upon them. Still, this technique is quite useful for skipping through boring parts of books or quickly reading books when they have too much reading to do. What is required of the reader is simple: the reader much pick up a couple key words from each line to piece together an image of what’s happening. Of course, the reader will not get the whole picture but s/he will get just enough information to know what is going on.
Possibly the hardest of the three techniques, reading in clusters requires practice. When perfected, this technique will no doubt be the best of the three but it is also the hardest to acquire. For this technique to work, the reader simply has to read, not in single words as we usually do, but in clusters of three or four words. Lots of practice is needed for one to become skillful at this…as they say, “practice makes perfect.”
No doubt, reading can get on one’s nerves at times, be it getting through a boring part of a good book or reading quickly through some university textbooks, but with enough practice by using these three techniques, one can persevere and succeed. Being able to read is a gift, but Bill Cosby’s three reading techniques enhance them greatly, which eventually helps us write well.
Written by a G9 student:
Friends can be classified into three main categories. The first group is the “fake” friends. These are the people who act friendly towards you, with other objectives in mind. They are merely trying to get what they want. They will not be there for you when you need them. The second group is the normal friends. These are the people you share classes with and often talk to. Interaction with them includes hanging out occasionally, completing homework together, and joking around. The last group is the best friends. Best friends tell you the truth even if it’s not always what you want to hear. They are the type of friends t hat will be there for you, even if it means sacrificing something. They are the shoulder you lean on, the arms that hold you, and the eyes that keep watch over for you. They know you better than you know yourself, and always do what they can to help you. A friend understands what you are saying, but a best friend understand what you aren’t saying.
Written by a G7 student:
Summary of parallelism
In writing, parallelism means grammatically equal which helps to balance sentence elements. However faulty parallelism disrupts the balance so it makes the sentence awkward. For parallel structure we need balance nouns with nouns, prepositional phrases with prepositional phrases and so on. But parallel structure is not enough for us to be effective in writing, we also have to make them it clear, so when necessary, we can repeat a preposition, an article, or the “to” of the infinitive or the introductory word of a phrase or a clause. There are also correlatives that usually connect parallel structures, for example: both … and, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also, and whether…or. Sometimes we are not sure if our sentence is parallel or not, that’s when we can make an outline of the parallel parts.
For example:
Sentence:
One may feel that Commager’s plan for eliminating the corruption in sports is both radical and impractical.
Outline of the parallel parts:
One may feel…
both
radical
and
impratical
Watches (a short story)
Courtney, who loved watches, had the pleasure of buying watches of different styles but hated buying one that was of good quality because she thought it was too expensive. Every time she went to the mall, she would buy a new watch. However after less then a month one of her watches would break, thus she was always buying and buying without stopping.
One day, Courtney went to the shopping mall again to look for a watch with the latest style. She found some where were really inexpensive therefore she bought a couple of them and headed home. After a couple of days Courtney had found out that these watches were jus accessories because they did not even show the right time! That’s why Courtney went back to the shopping center and purchased a really valuable and beautiful watch. Even though it was expensive, it was still worth it since the watch had lasted for many years without breaking. When Courtney looked at her bill she was shocked because she had spent more money on useless watches for a year than a good watch that lasted for a really long period of time. Now Courtney knows that quality is way better than quantity.
Written by a G3 student:
The laughing contest (a short story)
Once there was a big joke contest in LAUGHTOWN. Everyone sent in great jokes, but only 8 people got in the contest. Their names were Joky, Laughs, Not Funny, Tom, Plugs, Uhpg, Wow and Op. Joky went first and he told a joke so funny that the judges snickered so that hard while they were drinking water it came out of their nose!!! After a few jokes, Joky and Not Funny had to compete who was the best joker. Both of them wanted to get the grant prize – a MULTI-FUNCTION GIGGLING LAVE LAMP!!! Joky did a funny joke and out of 20 he got 19.9. The only way for Not Funny to win was to get a full 20/20!!! On the stage, he was still laughing from Joky’s joke and he didn’t think of a joke yet so he said “UM UM UM” and the audience and the judges chuckled so much because he made a funny face when he said “UM” so he won 1st place!!!
Summary of English verbs:
Verbs are important because without them, there would not be a sentence.
Verbs tell us the positions, relationships and functions of other words in a sentence.
Sentences:
Food alleviates hunger.
This elephant is a big, giant, colossal animal.
This lesson offers me a GREAT challenge.
Food shortage frustrates foodologists.
Gold is a natural treasure.
Pushing hard shatters glass.
The school principle suspended the naughty kid.
This lesson prepares me to be a good writer in the future.
Reading makes people smart.
Smoke threatens our HEALTH.
Lack of understanding makes writing difficult.
Many scientists imitate science.
I trudged to the “out” bench because I missed the baseball by a millimeter.
Adults adore the news’s news.
The Rockies are somewhere across AL and BC
An iceberg sank the Titanic.
The Titanic lies somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
The sun paints the grass green.
Obama signed the “Be a President” sheet.
The principle signed my certificate.
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