Answer:
Having “a place by the window” means standing still while watching life go by.
The word "baptized" means that Esperanza would like to have the ability to change her name since birth and not change it now, after she has grown up.
We can associate the word "baptized", in this story, the word "reborn", "resurge".
Explanation:
In "My Name" by Sandra Cisneros we learn about Esperanza's thoughts on her name. She believes that her name does not have a good cootation, a good story and does not fit well among English speakers.
She recalls that she has the same name as her grandmother, who was a very strong woman, but who was trapped in an undesirable marriage, unable to experience life's opportunities and just watching life go by and time go by. Experanza does not want to have that destination, although she has the same name as Grandma.
Experanza wants to have a better life and believes that changing her name would be a good first step, but she didn't want to change her name now, she wanted to be baptized with another name, which indicates that she wanted to be reborn and have a different life.
Answer:
Essential Question/Assumption: “What is taught is what is learned.”
I disagree with this assumption.
Students are taught language in class for them to learn based on the curriculum that needed to be completed by the students and the teachers. They are given those important language modules with contents and lessons like grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc. Indeed, they are taught with information but it doesn’t mean they acquire them. It all boils down if the taught language is acquired or just another information delivered but passively learned.
Basically, what is taught in class is controlled and normally followed a rote learning process aiming to get good scores in exams. This kind of learning is very objective and information learned is forgotten day by day when the information learned is not relevant to daily conversations.
We can see that students who passively learned English through movie watching, constant reading can learn more quickly than those students diligently study words and verbs which are taught in class.
You would be surprised when a teacher asks a student a particular idea taught in class. However, student can answer more sensible information aside from what is taught, since answers are based on student understanding, which is not directly taught by the teacher. The student comes up with answers based on her/his research, previous readings, instructions from home or peers. So learning is not limited to what is taught but it’s more of synthesizing everything. The fact about what is taught in class is just bridging the information students have learned previously.
Somehow what is taught is just an additional information that can help students improve their language learning. Aside from what they have learned in class, they also have their extra reading and information that can help them improve in learning a language.
Answer:
1. On the other side of the world
2. Grandmother Spider used teamwork and logic with the buzzard.
3. The babbling brooks and children learn that sometimes change is good and that things aren't always the way they seen.
4. It is true that foxes have dark noses and possums have a bare tail, but it is different because these animals can talk and get along with each other.
5. The story suggests Grandmother Spider is wise and thinks about things before doing them.
6. I think "How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun" is titled like this because the story is about how the spider used teamwork to get the sun for her and her friends.
7. When Quetzelcoatl got to the Sun, everyone groaned and complained.
"Quetzelcoatl, why do you have to be here? You are boring and bland just like the Earth."
Normally, Quetzelcoatl would have gotten very angry, but after everything he had done, he just cried. Soon, he had filled up the house of the sun with his tears. The water soaked all the musicians. They didn't want to sing ever again. The Sun and its musicians no longer sang. The Earth with all its plants shriveled up and died. Without music the Earth was nothing.
Explanation:
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