Analyzing And Comprehend Works Of Literature And Math

It’s hard to believe that it’s already the end of the second quarter. Half of my junior year has passed by and the AP Language Composition exam is only a short one-hundred and eighteen days away. But in the past four months, I have been able to develop the skillsets needed to analyze and comprehend works of literature and conquer the AP exam. This second quarter has definitely brought growth in my ability to analyze and comprehend literature; however, I also experienced some stagnation in my writing abilities. Throughout the second quarter, I wrote several different essays in which I was able to develop and see my writing abilities. However, as the quarter progressed, I did not see a clear development in my writing abilities. Instead, my writing abilities fluctuated up and down like a roller coaster cart going up and down the hills. At the end of the first quarter, I had slowly improved my abilities in writing rhetorical analyses. In the last rhetorical essay of the qu arter (Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv), I was able to recognize and express the rhetorical devices that I found in the article. My explanation for the author’s purpose for a rhetorical device was clear and well worded as shown in the following sentence. â€Å"When people hear this question, they will notice how they don’t watch nature anymore and then realize how they have grown apart from it.† However, there were still lapses in my diction and prose. At some points, my prose was not as elegant as itShow MoreRelatedEffectiveness Of Interactive Online Algebra Learning Tools1502 Words   |  7 Pagesthe observed differences were not significant enough to conclude a real difference between using interactive graphing tools and not using these tools. To be honest, the discussion of the data obtained from the study is difficult to follow and comprehend because of the terminology used such as â€Å"skewness and kurtosis values,† â€Å"negatively skewed and leptokurtic,† and â€Å"ANOVA using the Type III SS set.† Aside from the research that I did to understand the terminology, I also found that the graphs andRead MoreAnalysis Of Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 4511113 Words   |  5 Pagesstruggle and hardship. Montag attempts to read books and see what they really mean, but he struggles to comprehend it to due to the lack of literature all his life. This is a perfect representation of how true learning needs the path of sufferance and acknowledgement to truly understand. This is similar to my own experience last year in my Algebra 1 class. It was a relatively a different class than math 8 and I was struggling due to the difficult content. 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There are many reasons why Freire claims that problem-posing is the better of the two. The problem-posing technique, which is a liberating education, overall helps not only the students, but the teachers as well, because they work together. Since problem-posing is a liberating education, it acts as cognition, not just the idea of â€Å"depositing† the information into students (Freire, 1993). In the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it stated that the teacher-student and the student-teacherRead MoreEffectiveness Of Interactive Online Algebra Learning Tools1693 Words   |  7 Pagesthe observed differences were not significant enough to conclude a real difference between using interactive graphing tools and not using these tools. To be honest, the discussion of the data obtained from the study is difficult to follow and comprehend because of terminology used such as â€Å"skewness and kurtosis values,† â€Å"negatively skewed and leptokurtic,† and â€Å"ANOVA using the Type III SS set.† Aside from the research that I did in order to understand the terminology, I did find that the graphsRead MoreComputer Science Is Not A Basic Complexity1808 Words   |  8 Pagesand math classes have increased in the past 20 years, the number of students enrolled in computer science has actually decreased. This can be attributed to the neglect exhibited by schools on computer science. In these 20 years, 1 billion computers have been built which makes computer science â€Å"integrated†: so baked into human life that it is not surprising to encounter, with social, technological, and futuristic aspects of the world. 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This is true in academic writing because wordsRead MoreMeta-Cognitive Process1794 Words   |  8 PagesCognitive strategies are the basic mental abilities we use to think, study, and learn (e.g., recalling information from memory, analyzing sounds and images, making associations between or comparing/ contrasting different pieces of information, and making inferences or interpreting text). They help an individual achieve a particular goal, such as comprehending text or solving a math problem, and they can be individually identified and measured. In contrast, metacognitive strategies are used to ensure that