Rewrite task

Dear Ms X,

For over the past six years every morning when my students walk in the door I have felt so happy about see them again and my classroom take on life again; being a primary school teacher feels so natural to me. Yet for the past few months was longing for and thinking about a few personal challenge in the field of primary education. As I'm very intrigued by different cultures and languages, I've decided to start looking for a position at an international school.

As a relatively young international school which I would like to be member of pioneering and ambitious team, your school attracted my attention. I also liked the fact it is a Dutch  subsidized school with competitive fees open to a very broad variety of students. Last, I value the multicultural setting of your school added by the experience of living in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, as I think this city and the Dutch culture have much to offer. 

Even though teaching secondary school students might be a future possibility for me, I am initially interested in groups 3-8 because to me, children of these ages are very spontaneous and eager to learn at the same time able to communicate and discuss well. 

I am an open minded person with excellent social skills who tolerates pressure easily. Group management, organizing and planing is natural for me. By graduating in a outstanding technical university and working several years as a consulting engineer and group leader in the field of logistics and genera, management, I developed my rational, coordinating and analytical skills, so I decided to really follow my heart and passion to become a primary school teacher. 

I believe value would be added to you organization with my skills And enthusiasm as well I would appreciate very much to be interviewed so we could discuss more about the job description, my motivation and suitability .

Yours sincerely 

Candidate Y

Diary entry

september 14, 1939

Dear diary:

Today I was walking through the city streets when I heard some people talking about something about some apparently germans that where I think like grouping outside the city or somewhere near the city, but because I was in a hurry, I didnt pay attention. Later when arrived home, mom was worried about me because she had heard too about this german concentration outside the city. She told me to stay inside for the rest of the day and the whole night... I still dont know why.... 

September 15 

My dad didnt came home last night, neither my brothers, and today, the authorities are telling us to dont go out to the streets, that is not safe. Thats the only reason I can imagine to explain why they didnt came yesterday... 

Germans are in the city, and they are not friendly. I was taking a nap when my mother came running into my bedroom screaming and yelling ¡"Hide, hide!". So we did, but any time I wanted to ask her what was happening, she shutted my mouth. Apparently a german soldier heard us because suddenly he entered the house by using strengh. He made us line in front of him

 

Textual analysis

Ethos: " But I always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree"

Pathos: "We are, and always be, the United States of America"

Logos: "I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines... It was built by working men and women who dug into little savings they had to give $5 and  $10 and $20 to the cause..."

Parallelism: "If there's anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive on our time, who still questions..."

Hypophora: Word answer at the begging of each paragraph answering the questions made in the first paragraph.

Repetition: Repetition of word "It" for starting sentences. ex. "It was built... It grew strength..."

Antithesis: "...we are, and we always be, the United States of America" 

Figurative speech: "Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston"

Tricolon and polysyndeton: "Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston"

Juxtaposition: "...spoken by young and old, rich and poor, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled"

Allusion: "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where..."

Varied sentence length: " disabled and not disabled"

Anne Frank listening

1)  young Jewish 

2) death, following the

3) from the nazis 

4) died aged 15 in a

5) studious and dilligent 

6) a passion for books

7) came to power

8) and outgoing

9) note book

10) about her dreams 

12) to go to a 

13) shared the small space

14) the hideout and

15) in a mass grave

16) most widely read

To kill a mockingbird

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/tokillamockingbird/23450592/?s=2i7qcD&ref=app 

Study session

Linking words.- 

Conjunctions: conjunctions join two statements and express relationships like time, addition, reason, condition and purpose. Examples include: 

Although, As soon as, for, so, while, and, but, in case, until, yet, as long as,  because and since. 

When we use "yet" (or and yet) as a conjunction, it means "but"

"For" can be used as a conjunction replacing "because" 

 Linking prepositions: are often followed by a verb +ing: 

Instead of reading the book... 

Since, before, and after can be both conjunctions and prepositions:

We were very worried BEFORE/AFTER we had taken the exam (conjunction) 

We were very worried BEFORE/AFTER the exam (preposition).....

 

Option 2

So, Miss Harper Lee, we where talking about your book ''To kill a Mockingbird''. So far i've only read 3 chapters, and I already have some doubts, not related to the book story, but related to the production of it. I mean the places, all the characteristics of the town, the characters... Like, for example, Maycomb, Does this town represent something special? You can tell by the description that's something on it.. you describe it like '' Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square''... ''People moved slowly then''...  ''A day was 24 hours long but it seemed longer''.

Actually, this city or town does represent something. Its actually a representation of the place where I was born, Monroeville, Alabama was very similar to what Maycomb is. In what ways? A ''boring place'', some place where you feel time passes more slowly, where you don't have nothing to do, nowhere to go at, nothing to buy, nothing really interesting to do, at least at that times. And the colours I gave to Maycomb where the same that Monroeville used to have.

What does Scout Finch represents? Or who's representation is?
Scout Finch represents me, when I was a little girl in Monroeville. And all his characteristics in some way are mine too.

Does the story has something to do with your life?
Yes, actually all the characters represent someone, for example ''Jem'' represents my older brother, ''Dill', aboy who used to come on vacations in summer to Monroeville. And not only the characters, the story too. For example, The Radleys Place was created to represent a house in my town where the same that happens in the book happened. A family lived there, as in the book, the son was locked in for 22 years... And the context of the story too, The Great Depression in the 30's, the racism.. But my story is not a autobiography at all, it just has some factors of my childhood

Last question... What does the title means?
You just have to read the whole book to understand that, but it has something to do with the relation between hunting a mockingbird down as a common animal and one of the main characters.