Thursday, December 20, 2012

Week 2


  • For our first assignment, we had to bring a chosen picture, from LIFE magazine or Nat Geo, and report about that picture, what could be our opinion and make the comment. 
  • My picture was from LIFE 
  • We made a discussion on almost each photograph and talked about humanity issues nowadays. The professor showed us an unreleased picture, it was taken this year, by a professional photographer near Africa. The picture was taken outside of a burned Catholic church, there were more than 50 people corps burned. The genocide was by Muslims hands. It was a shocking picture. 
  • We sang a song from Suzanne Vega. ..\..\..\..\Videos\Tom's Diner Suzanne Vega.wmv
  • We also had learned from the book the passive and active voice, during writing. Which means that the sentence have a distinct structure but the same meaning voiced differently. 

  1. Active voice: Focus on the person who perform the action 
v subject + verb (+object): The flood covered the house.
  1. Passive voice: Focus on the person or thing that receives or is the result of an action. 
v be + past participle: My house has been covered by the flood.


  • We also studied how useful can be a brainstorming. 
  • We could distinguish between the a topic sentence and the controlling idea on a paragraph. 
  • Topic sentence: is an essential part of all well-written paragraph. 
  • Controlling idea: is the idea you want to explain, illustrate or describe the paragraph.

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