There has been talking lately on this forum about the importance of writing and the value of it. There is another group of which I am a part, and we have recently been discussing something very similar. However, instead of discussing the value of writing as a whole, we’ve been discussing individual words and their meaning or power. Read More »
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Two-Way Immersion: Kill two pájaros with uno stone?
By warrior-poet - Posted on November 11th, 2008
Tagged: bilingual education
• Cultural Acceptance and Respect
• Cultural Differences
• culture
• English
• foreign language
• foreign language education
• hispanic
• immersion
• immigrants
• Immigration
• mandarin chinese
• melting pot
• mexicans
• Mexico
• Spanish
• Shared responsibility
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Bilingual education. It sounded like a great idea to me for a while--especially since I have friends who moved to the U.S. at a young age and described what it was like for them going to school when no one speaks your language, and being forced to learn it really quickly. Read More »
Press "1" for English.
By Guest - Posted on October 6th, 2008
I keep seeing a lot of blogs lately about the national language being English; I'm all for it. It's not excluding anybody, it's saying, "Hey, you want to live here? Read More »
Androids in My English Class?!
By .Dani.Liz. - Posted on August 31st, 2008
I'm a Freshman at Indiana University of South Bend. i'm taking English 131. For Thursday's class we were told to read an essay by Maureen Caudill (sp) entitled "Redefining the Measure of Mankind." This lovely little essay was about androids, which our entire class will be about for the next month or more. Read More »
Commercials and Language
By Poison_Ivy - Posted on May 27th, 2008
Tagged: america
• commercials
• English
• language
• Spanish
• spoken language
• Television
• Shared responsibility
Having had the television on all weekend, I noticed that many commercials are now all in Spanish. I am watching basic cable here, not the Spanish speaking channels. From the images on the commercials I can understand what product they are advertising, but their presence as interruptions for all English programming is quite alarming. Read More »
I can't be the only one concerned by the lack of proper spelling done by those in my school (at least)!
By acheshirecatsmi... - Posted on April 28th, 2008
“my presasive essay will be on salvery. slavery is bad because noone should own an other person. every person on earth has there basic rights tooken away by slavery. thats y salvery should b illegel everywhere.” Read More »
Dante's "Inferno"......An English Assignment Part 2
By fkj62308 - Posted on April 28th, 2008
Tagged: college prep classes
• Dante
• English
• Heaven
• Hell
• high school
• Inferno
• Personal freedom
If you haven't read the first part of the assignment here's the link. You might understand this better if you read Part one before Part Two. http://www.progressiveu.org/093253-dantes-inferno-english-assignment-par... Read More »
Dante's "Inferno"......An English Assignment Part 1
By fkj62308 - Posted on April 23rd, 2008
Tagged: college prep classes
• Dante
• English
• Heaven
• Hell
• high school
• Inferno
• Personal freedom
So in my College Prep English class my teacher is having us read Dante's "Inferno". Here's a little bit of background for those of you who don't have a clue....Dante wrote three poems "Inferno" (Hell), "Purgatorio" (Purgatory) and "Paradiso" (Heaven). Together these three poems make up the "Divine Comedy". Basically it is about Dante being guided thru Hell and Purgatory by Virgil. Read More »
