Narratives (Continue)

What did you learn?

I learn about text "Secret" and text is long detail.

This is summary of story

      Kylie feels left out from her mother and Philip’s activities. She becomes interested in the chicken in the yard. Somehow her secret helps her to feel less lonely. She finds a second egg and then finds out where other are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen. Her secret becomes bigger every day. When she is left alone, she often shares the secret with the hen. She always thinks about her father when she looks at the photographs.

    Kylie watches the hen sitting on ten eggs. She takes the lid off the well. She starts to go down the well with her photo album every day. She watch Philip and her wonders why her father is not with them. Philip discovers her in the well and hits her. Kylie throws the chicks down the well. Kylie hits the hen and throws it down the well. She chooses one special photo which makes her feel good. Kylie cuts off her head from the special photo and throws it away.

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What did you find easy?
I read text.
What did you find difficult?
I think find to summary is difficult and find main cause.
What did you solve the problem?
I read again and again and ask my friend. I try to read and find difficult word before fine the answer.

Narrative

Week 3
Lesson 2 Narratives
The basic purpose of Narratives is so entertain, i.e. to gain and hold the reader's interest in a story.
Genre : They are typically imaginary but can be factual. They include fairy stories, mysteries, sci-fi, choose-your-own-adventures, romances, horror stories...

Recount (Continue)

I learn Recount continue from last week

I learn about Botanic Gardens

This is  The History of Singapore Botanic Gardens.

 The idea of a national garden in Singapore started in 1822 when Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore and a keen naturalist, developed the first ‘Botanical and Experimental Garden’ at Fort Canning. It was only in 1859 that the Gardens at its present site was founded and laid out in the English Landscape Movement’s style by an Agri-Horticultural society. The Gardens was soon handed over to the British colonial government (in 1874) and a series of Kew-trained botanists saw the Gardens blossom into an important botanical institute over the following decades. Today, the Gardens is managed by the National Parks Board, a statutory board of the Singapore government.
In the early years, the Gardens played an important role in fostering agricultural development in Singapore and the region through collecting, growing, experimenting and distributing potentially useful plants. One of the earliest and most important successes was the introduction, experimentation and promotion of Para Rubber, Hevea brasiliensis. This became a major crop that brought great prosperity to the South East Asian region in the early 20th century. From 1928, the Gardens spearheaded orchid breeding and started its orchid hybridisation programme, facilitated by new in vitro techniques pioneered in its laboratories. In contemporary times, the Gardens also played a key role in Singapore’s Garden City programme through the continual introduction of plants of horticultural and botanical interest.
 With more than 150 years of history, the 82-hectare Gardens holds a unique and significant place in the history of Singapore and the region. Through the botanical and horticultural work carried out today, it will continue to play an important role as a leading tropical botanical institute, and an endearing place to all Singaporeans.
The Gardens has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site at the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) on 4 July 2015. The Gardens is the first and only tropical botanic garden on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It is the first in Asia and the third botanic gardens inscribed in the world following Orto botanico di Padova and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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What did you find easy?
I read text rather easy.
What did you find difficult?
I find answer the question rather difficult.
What did you solve the problem?
Ask and discuss my friend and read text again.

Introduct & Recount

This is semester 2 of sophomore.
    I studied new lesson be A Discourse Approach  in Reading
I studied lesson 1 Recount.
      In a recount we reconstruct past experience. A recount is the unfolding of a sequence of events over time. We are using language to keep the past alive and help us to interpret experience.
Purpose : to tell what happened.
Genre : Personal recount
             Factual recount
             Imaginative recount
I learn about text "My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja").^[1] Most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). The Indonesian government has recognized this animist belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").
The word toraja comes from the Bugis Buginese language term to riaja, meaning "people of the uplands". The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909.^[3] Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days.
Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries first worked to convert Torajan highlanders to Christianity. When the Tana Toraja regency was further opened to the outside world in the 1970s, it became an icon of tourism in Indonesia: it was exploited by tourism developers and studied by anthropologists.^[4] By the 1990s, when tourism peaked, Toraja society had changed significantly, from an agrarian model — in which social life and customs were outgrowths of the Aluk To Dolo—to a largely Christian society.^[5] Today, tourism and remittances from migrant Torajans have made for major changes in the Toraja highland, giving the Toraja a celebrity status within Indonesia and enhancing Toraja ethnic group pride
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toraja)

What did you learn today?
    New lesson, recount.
What did you fine easy ?
     I saw a purpose of recount. The purpose of recount tell happened
What did you fine difficult ?
    For me, Thing is difficult be specific words because I remember words a little and difficult word I fine to dictionary.
What did you solve the problem ?
    I had mobile phone. I found many word  to dictionary application.