Assignment 5

Reflections on assignment 3 and 4

First of all I like to say that I really enjoyed these two assignments. It was very fun to create my own assignment and also to see what kinds of assignment the other students have made.

My assignment was to select an article that is useful for our future role as a teacher and to write a summary of the text. I made this assignment because it’s important to know how to select the most important facts in a text.

The student who did my assignment did a great work. She chose an article about Fun projects teching geography for kids which were a very interesting article.

I chose Linda G:s assignment. Write a short summary of an article, a movie or a book that you like or don’t like. I chose to do a summary of the movie Stand By Me. This was a good assignment where you practise to retell a movie in a short version.

/ Anna

Assignment 4

I have done Linda G:s assignment

Summary of a movie.

Stand by Me

Stand by me is a movie (based on a short story by Stephen King) of four twelve year old boys who are living in a small-town in the year 1959. The four boys Teddy, Vern, Gordie and Chris are best friends. They are very different characters and they have different kind of problems and relations to their families. Gordie’s older brother Denny recently died in a car accident and his parents have handled that very bad. All the time they are asking Gordie why he isn’t more like his brother and so on. Chris has an alcoholic father who beats him all the time. Teddy’s father is a disturbed war veteran who has abused him all his life. Vern is the chubby one that everybody makes a fool of. Vern is very frightened of his older brother that always pushes him around and Vern spend a lot of time hiding.
One day Vern heard his older brother describe the location where the dead body of a missing boy from the town that everyone had been looking for actually lies. This information makes Vern feel important and he tells the other boys about the news. They decide to go and find the body and on the way there a lot of things happen. When they arrived at the dead body they discover that they are not the only ones who’ve been looking for it.

I have seen this movie a few times and I think it’s really good but also sad. I choose this movie because I think it contains many interesting and important topics for example, death, family relationships, friendship, bullying and curiosity in adult life.

Assignment 3

Since all of us are going to work as teachers we are supposed to create our own written proficiency assignment this week.

I have decide that my assignment this week is going to be a relections about an article.

Instructions:
Choose an aritcle on your own that you might find important in your future role as a teacher. It can be almost everything,things you wants to have knowledge about, for example, different types of disabilities or bullying. Read it thrue and think about the content of the article and write it down as a reflection with 200-250 words. What was the article about? What did you like about it and what did you not like? What did you learn and what knowledge do you bring?

This exercise will practise to summarize longer texts and also to think about important things that you are going to deal with as a teacher!

Good luck!