theo thông tin mới nhất từ lớp trưởng, cta k dùng blog mà dùng facebook thay thế :)
các bạn check mail lớp để biết thêm chi tiết :D
Thứ Ba, 31 tháng 1, 2012
Entry no.1 _ Nguyễn Thị Chinh
Entry 1
Item 1: Poem
Qua đèo Ngang [1]
Bước tới Đèo Ngang, bóng xế tà,
Cỏ cây chen đá, lá chen hoa.
Lom khom dưới núi, tiều vài chú,
Lác đác bên sông, chợ mấy nhà.
Nhớ nước đau lòng, con quốc quốc,
Thương nhà mỏi miệng cái gia gia.
Dừng chân đứng lại, trời, non, nước,
Một mảnh tình riêng, ta với ta
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: tà – nhà – gia – ta
- Pun: + Quốc : nước
+ Gia : nhà
- Repetition: word “Chen” in “Cỏ cây chen đá, lá chen hoa”
- Chiasmus: “Lom khom” is verb, but it is subject in sentence “Lom khom dưới núi, tiều vài chú”
Message:
The poem “Qua Deo Ngang” shows that Deo Ngang’s scenery is airy and neglected. Besides, the poet wants to express her homesick and loneliness.
Item 2: Fable
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse [2]
There once was a mouse who liked his country house until his cousin came for a visit.
"In the city where I live," his cousin said, "we dine on cheese and fish and bread. Each night my dinner is brought to me. I eat whatever I choose. While you, country cousin, work your paws to the bone for humble crumbs in this humble home. I'm used to finery. To each his own, I see!"
Upon hearing this, the country mouse looked again at his plain brown house. Suddenly he wasn't satisfied anymore. "Why should I hunt and scrape for food to store?" he said. "Cousin, I'm coming to the city with you!"
Off they went into the fine town house of the plump and prosperous city mouse.
"Shhh! The people are in the parlor," the city mouse said. "Let's sneak into the kitchen for some cheese and bread."
The city mouse gave his wide-eyed country cousin a grand tour of the leftover food on the table. "It's the easy life," the city mouse said, and he smiled as he bit into a piece of bread.
Just as they were both about to bite into a chunk of cheddar cheese, In came the CAT!
"Run! Run!" said the city mouse. "The cat's in the house!"
Just as the country mouse scampered for his life out of the window, he said, "Cousin, I'm going back to the country! You never told me that a CAT lives here! Thank you, but I'll take my humble crumbs in comfort over all of your finery with fear!"
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: the city mouse (person who is rich, lives in wealthy place); the country mouse (person who likes freedom, lives in free, peaceful and poor place); cat (disasters, dangers); cheddar cheese, bread (wealthy, completion)
Message:
The wealthy always goes with worries and frights. Although we are poor, we have the peacefulness and that is the most important thing in our lives.
Item 3: Cartoon[3]
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: a enormous man (technology); a little baby (education)
- Overstatement: a little baby hugs a man’s leg
Message:
Technology develops very fast even though it is a part of education. Education always follows the technology’s developments.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[1] Sách giáo khoa Ngữ văn lớp 7 tập 1
Thứ Hai, 30 tháng 1, 2012
Entry no.1_Do Ngoc Luyen
Entry 1
Item 1: Poem
Dreams [1]
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
(Langston Hughes)
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: die-fly, go-snow, frozen-snow.
- Metaphor:
o A broken-winged bird that cannot fly (a meaningless life)
o A barren field frozen with snow (an aimless life)
- Repetition: “Hold fast to dreams” ( “Hold fast to dreams” was repeated as an urgent message which the author want to send to the readers – Let hold fast to dreams to make life meaningful and beautiful).
Message:
Dreams are very important in anyone’s life (they are our aims, the beautiful things which we believe in…), so when we have no dream, our lives become nonsense. Therefore, everyone needs dreams and “Holds fast to dreams” to make our life meaningful and beautiful.
Item 2: Moral story
The obstacle in our path [2]
In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.
Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand!
Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor:
o The huge rock (the obstacle in life)
o The purse (the achievement which people get when they overcome the difficulties)
Message:
There are many obstacles in our lives; each of them hides an opportunity. All we need is to face up to these obstacles, try to find the solutions then we will get the deserved achievements.
Item 3: Cartoon
Rich and poor [3]
Rhetorical devices:
- Symbol: the scale is the symbol of justice.
- Irony: the person who represents justice discriminates against the poor.
Message:
In our modern society, the discrimination against the poor still exists apparently.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-2/
[2] http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-79-The+Obstacles+In+Our+Path.html
[3] http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Rich%20and%20Poor_56306
Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 1, 2012
Critical thinking assignment
by Thang Tran, Qh.2010. E14, ULIS, VNU
1. From: Keroauc, Jack. (1950). The town and the city. The United States of America: Penguin books Ltd.
“There was all this gleeful demonism, and a thousand absorbing and wonderful things to be done, and parties and dances every week, and the fascinating vistas of new study, new languages, new knowledge – vistas that were just like the blue pine hills and the grey dimness to the north that they saw outside the classroom windows.”
“When all the family was stilled in sleep, when the streetlamp a few paces from the house shone at night and made grotesque shadows of the trees upon the house, when the river sighed off in the darkness, when the trains hooted on their way to Montreal far upriver, when the wind swished in the soft treeleaves and something knocked and rattled on the old barn – you could stand in old Galloway Road and look at this home and know that there is nothing more haunting than a house at night when the family is asleep, something strangely tragic, something beautiful forever.”
Comment:
The author used the method of repetition to emphasize the beauty of Galloway, where the story took place. “And” and “When” were used to make the story smoothly narrated, to make the readers completely into the flow of time and nature.
2. From: Dust Bowl – The Southern Plains in the 1930s
It fell across our city like a curtain
of black rolled down,
We thought it was our judgment, we thought
It was our doom.
(Woody Guthrie - “The Great Dust Storm”)
Comment:
The Dust Bowl is one of the tragedies in America’s history which caused devastating damage to the agriculture and human welfare. We can easily see that the author compared the dust storm with a “curtain of black rolled down”. This comparison is quite easy to understand as a natural phenomenon. The storm came, sweeping through the vast regions of Midwest, with small dark particles of sand that passed through every airtight doors. The movement of natural power is so powerful that it can destroy everything on its path.
3. From: Scott Ellsworth. Death in a promised land – the Tulsa race riot of 1921
“They found the business district to be burned-out shell. Their home – the building at Greenwood and Archer which also housed their confectionary – had been looted and burned. Their theater, too, was but bricks and ashes.”
Comment:
The history of the Tulsa riot is one chapter in the troubled history of racial violence in America. This is a brief description among thousands of cases in the Tulsa race riot. The author used the phrase “bricks and ashes”, which triggers the readers’ mind of a theater in raging fire. “Ashes” is the metaphor of remains after a fire. “Bricks”, in this case, is the metaphor of things crumbled down after a fire. This way of describing is unique and interesting.
Đăng ký:
Bài đăng (Atom)