Reading for academic purposes "Text 11 Teaching for Character and Community"

Text 11 Teaching for Character  and Community

Reading is activities shen you spell letter by letter, word by word, one by one in a text. So that, you will know the meaning of the text and new knowladge  do you get. Talk aboy reading, for this opportunities I would like to answer from quetions page 68-69  Reading Academic English (Judy Rapoport, Ronit Broder, Sarah Feingold) especially for the text has tittle is “Teaching for Character  and Community”

1. What kind of violence is increasing in schools?

Answer : kind of violence increasing in schools are extreme schools violence, the insident ect.

2.Acordi the writer, what do teacher do with regard to the increase in the violence in the schools? What should they do?

Answer : theachers should do bring weapons to schools and killing and injuring classmates and teachers-have increased.

3. Explain the sentence : “No consistent demographic profile emerged of the attackers.”

Answer : some have histories of neglet, but other came from intact families; some were failing in school, but other were excellent students.

4. What do many of those involved in the school violence have in common?

Answer : more than three-quatres

5.Wh are some of the factors that causes these student to be violent?

Answer : young people turn from parents to peers for social and psychological support. They are in the bottom of the social pecking order.

6. What does the writer mean by: “walking upstream”?

Answer : that educators must attempt violence alter the process by which student form themselves into subgroups-a hierarchy that promotes the isolation of some adolescents who may turn to violance out of the desperation and a desire for revenge.

7. Why it is important for educators to include the teaching of character in the school curriculum?

Answer : because it has made character education-the teaching of caring, respect, and common virtues-a high priority curriculum.

8. What are the “common virtues” that the autors includes in character education?

Answer : there are personal, relationship, and community.

9. What the two approches to fostering character and communityin the schools?

Answer : there are curricular and instructional.

10. Explain the strategy call “paraphrase passport”. What are the advantages of using such of trategy in the teaching literature?

Answer : the strategy before the students analyzes a literature, their teacher might introduce the to an instructional.theb advantages are a better understanding of others’ view point, become more emphatic, and improve ther listening skills.

11. Why is the intructional approach more powerful? 

Answer : because students practice the virtues daily. If the students have a lesson on understanding or honesty in the fail and then move on to discuss different virtues...

12. Choose one example of “Structure for Community and Character”, and explain it briefly.

Anwer : folded and split Agree-disagree line-up.

To explore controvelsial subject-for example, the moral and scientific issues inderlying President Bush’s deision to support limited research on human embryonic stem cells. 

After student read the topic, they  line-up acording they agreement with the following their statement so that, they have agreement and disagreement with their statement itself. So that, student learn respect and understanding of the point of view, and practice moral reasoning and couorage to stand up for their own conviertions.

13. What are some of the positif effect of making character education part of intruction?

Answer : there are some positif effect making character education part of intrusction; the structures help avoid the testing trap, structures increas engagement, structure help students practice character and virtues.

Next questions (Text Analysis Questions)

1. “well intentioned educators heave rsponded to this crisis by jumping into the river...”

As they pull out the victim, they sport failing about.

2. What explain does the writer give for students being “singled out for harassement and isolation”

young people turn from parents to peers for social and psychological support. They are in the bottom of the social pecking order.

3. What is the purpose  of the Columbine example in the paragraph 6? Whar does is demontrade?

To give explain example 

4. What does the writer present in the paragraph 8 and what the function does it serve?

Result of the reseachers and the function is to give result  

“nothing less than the basic social fabric of our society is at stake”. Expalin the santence.

5. List  the “common virtues” that the autors think should be include in the character education?

Personal

Relationship

community

6. List the explain the advantage of “embedding character education in instruction”

the structures help avoid the testing trap

structures increas engagement

structure help students practice character and virtues.

7. What is the aim of the article?

To explain teaching for character and community

Next Quetion (Vocabulary)

Prefixes; implisict, exclude, underlying, transition, interact, cooperative, community

8. What do the underlaned word refer to

“ some head histories of neglet, but others came from intact families”

9. The underline word refer to ....

“when they include structues as part of their curriculum for community and ccharacter, education go a long way,,,”

The underline word refer to...

Next Question (verb)

“kids would burn their lighter..” the underline verb form denote is past habit

“If instead their teacher were to lecture about the
 Poem,...” the underline verb form denote is past habit

Next Question (sentence structure)

“the most important finding to emerge from thr study was that more than three-quatrers of those who had restorted to extreme school violence had a grivance”

“educators have been reluctant to engage in character education for fear that parent would object”

Next Question (modal verb)

“we must not fail to address the lack of character and virtues in today’s youth”

“a student who has one or two lessons on kindness may or may not be kind”

Next Queation (passive)

“ for many students, sharacter and virtues will be equared in school = or not att all”

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