Review of english language learning website

this is review of an English language website from the class homepage

This website is called a4esl.org

First, i chose to review   a simple crossword.

i would recommend this activity for a beginner level English language students because it is fun and the vocabulary is easy and common.

I hope you enjoy this websiteee! :-)

Reflection On Bloom's Project

Knowledge

·      What you have learnt about?

How Disney Cartoon Affect On Children

1.     What have you learnt about how you learn?

I started an Internet search on “How Disney Cartoons Affect On Children?” I am focusing on how it affects physically and mentally for them. I used one article and its explain about the effects perfectly , then from the each effect, they also give an example and their expectation about the children attitude in the future.

“From the opinion, people think that cartoon have lots of positive effect, but instead of it they said that cartoon have lot more negative effects, why?”

Because they said, cartoon could make children to be severe and lazy. But I find it cartoon also teach positive things and there’s more positive things than negative things. Example: Friendship (Winnie The Pooh, Pooh is a good man. He cares for his friends and always help his friends no matter what happens. He also teach the children to be patient, caring, and sharing)

2.     Comprehension

How to make the children be more clever and well-mannered from the cartoons affect?

I’ve made a survey from teenagers and adults opinion about cartoon. Therefore, it’ll be my main idea to interview the children. I’ll be interview the children and make the questions for them according to the opinions that I’ve got. Because unexpectedly, in the early age, sometimes kids could have a good opinion and an wonderful idea. After finished interview all the childrens, I’ll try to find out 5 ways to make their ingenuity increases and it’ll be also in a unique and childish way. So, if I introduce my ideas, they’ll be fun, enjoying the ideas and undeniably, they’ll understand and do my ideas if they are comfortable with it.

           

3.     Application

I will read and analyse the survey and then make a diagram using Microsoft Excel. The diagram will show the presentation of positive effects, negative effects, and netral (the opinion if they think cartoon doesn’t have any positive and negative effects). I will also put the explanation below the diagram.

here's my survey about adults opinion on HOW CARTOONS AFFECT CHILDREN'S

1.     What is the best Disney cartoon movie in your opinion?

Pocahontas and Peter Pan. The story lines are great and so is the music!

2.     Is it true that sometimes adults or teenagers watch cartoons with their children or siblings for accompany-ing them from any bad scenes/actions?

After a certain age we all start getting over things. 
cartoons that we used to watch everyday start becoming boring because other things in life are better or more important
but majority of the time is that adults , have other responsibilities and cant find time for cartoons

3.     What do you think 5 cartoons that you’re not allowed your children for watch? And why?

·       Ed Edd n Eddy – Ed, Edd n Eddy is a show about three young friends who continuously try to scam money off of their friends to get candy.  Ed, Edd and Eddy’s schemes never work but are the plot of each and every show.  This cartoon is annoying to me because it is a group of boys that are always getting into predicaments while trying to scam other kids.  Even though their scams never work this cartoon just seems really pointless to me and sends a strange message to children.  

·       The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy – The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is a show about two kids Billy and Mandy making the Grim Reaper their friend for eternity. This cartoon can be really disgusting, disturbing and over the top especially for a kids cartoon.  There are so many things wrong with this cartoon its hard to limit it to just one reason.

·       Chowder – Chowder is a show about a young boy named Chowder who assists a chef. Although this show has some potential the characters can be really annoying and obnoxious.  Sometimes the show does not seem to have a point at all and there are some disgusting parts on this show as well. There are so many other cartoons out there that are better than this cartoon show.

·       The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack - The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is a show about a young boy named Flapjack who is being raised by a whale.  The whale Bubbie and Flapjack rescue Captain K’nuckles a pirate who tells the two about CandiedIsland; which is an island made of candy.  The show is about their crazy misadventures in pursuit of CandiedIsland.  This cartoon can be disgusting and Flapjack and the pirate are pretty obnoxious.  Some of the story lines are not really kid-friendly even though the focus is on getting candy.  

·       Family Guy – Family Guy is an adult cartoon show about the Griffin family. The family consists of the parents Peter and Lois, their children Chris, Meg and Stewie and their dog Brian.  This show has a great deal of adult humor and although I love this show it is not kid-friendly at all.  My children try and watch it because they find it funny but I will make them wait a few years for that.

4.     What do you think positive and negative effects of cartoons?

It depends on what the cartoons are about. If the cartoons teach children about bad things, it doesn’t have any positive effects. But, I think from the average, the positive effects are children could learn more from cartoons and they’re having fun with the cartoons. The negative effects are sometimes its have violence scenes and sometimes the cartoons are not match with the childrens have to watch on their ages.

WEBSITES

http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110124081600AAz8aGf

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_adults_only_watch_cartoons_with_their_children

http://hubpages.com/hub/Five-Cartoons-I-Dont-Let-My-Children-Watch

http://www.staggonline.net/features/2011/02/09/affects-of-cartoons-on-children/

Afterward, I’ll compare the answer between Adults and Teenagers. Therefore, I’ll interview some of my friends to know about their opinion.

I'll ask Bibil, Eileen, George, and Marcel.

QUESTIONS:

Reflection On Weeks 1-5

During the past 5 weeks, i have created 2 tasks on my topic.

First, i researched using the net and found an article that provided background information to help my understanding of the issues related to my topic, which is 'How Does Disney Cartoons Affect On Children?'.

With this information, i created a summary on the topic and posted it on my blog page. This helped my understanding and provided me with more information to move to the next stage on Blooms.

During the "comprehension" stage, i created my second task, before i record my summary of article that i've found, i put a comment on a website, which is asking 'Is the beloved cartoon "SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS" sending children bad messages?' i submitted the answer of my comment on that website, then embed a visual snapshot of my comment and the question to show the audience my understanding of the topic. We were asked to record our summaries as a video and embed the file into my blog page to demonstrate our oral language skills and ability to master information and expression. I found this difficult to do at first but Bibil was able to assist us and i was pleased with the final product.

Now i am preparing for the next stage of Blooms, which is "Application" and i am deciding how i will design my next task that could include: an interview, a simulation, a presentation using IT tools and illustration.

It's time for me no now to plan my next task so please check my blog on Friday and post a comment!

Summary of my project! lets listen to my voice :p

The reason why i record the summary of the article that i've found is because i think people will more understand and its creative. Also, i could explain it with tone of voice that express the condition for children nowadays. I found this article on www.bgsu.edu, its a really good website for children.

CHILDRENS ATTITUDE and opinion about cartoons

"the reason why i think spongebob squarepants is a cute cartoon because you know if you open tumblr or whatever websites which is have a picture and quotes, ex:weheartit.com, if u search a picture about spongebob quotes. there will be a good quotes about spongebob. spongebob teach us to be patient and about friendship. I think the only bad things about spongebob is..... same as another cartoons which is make childrens imagine about something impossible, but its normal. its educate them because they are still growing up, i believe as time goes by, they are getting more and more older, they will know the differences between bad and good things. SO, why do we protect childrens from cartoons? THEY HAVE TO watch it, educate and make them feel happy :-)"

that's my comment :-)

much of people thinks that cartoons have a bad influences. but i think its NOT!

HERE'S MY ASSESSMENT TASK ABOUT 'DISNEY CARTOONS', HOW DOES IT AFFECTS ON CHILDREN? :-)

Assessment Task
Farah Putri Nahlia
Grade 10
ESL-Miss Dianne

Question:
How does Disney cartoons affect childrens life? (Psychologically and Mentally)

Article:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/faculty/ha/tcom103fall2004/gp9/

What’s the article about?

The article is about the effects of cartoons for children

When:

November 15, 2004

Why:

Because they want to tell people how does cartoons affect children nowadays

Who:

The article is written by C.J Choma, Stevie Hossier, Robert Leu, Divia Nelson, Shawnte Ray, Ben Wilcox, and Brandon Ybarra. They dedicated this article for Dr. Louisa Ha

Where:

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    The article is about the effects of cartoons on children, the article is contain about how does cartoons affect children mentally, psychologically, the effect for their brain and eyes, for children safety, children's behavior, visual subliminal messaging, auditory subliminal messaging, and about the marketing companies that made cartoons. But i’ll just take mentally and psychologically. Because i think its the most ‘important’ and main things for childrens. The article is written on November 15, 2004. by C.J Choma, Stevie Hossier, Robert Leu, Divia Nelson, Shawnte Ray, Ben Wilcox, and Brandon Ybarra. They dedicated this article for Dr. Louisa Ha. The reason why they wanted to make this article is because they want to tell people how does cartoons affect children’s life.

    Summary of The Article

    Children have become much more interested in cartoons over many years and it has become a primary action to some lives. Typically, children begin watching cartoons on television at an early age of six months, and by the age two or three children become enthusiastic viewers. This has become a problem because too many children are watching too much television and the shows that they are watching (even if they are cartoons) have become violent and addictive. The Children who watch too much cartoons on

television are more likely to have mental and emotional problems, along with brain and eye injuries and unexpectedly the risk of a physical problem increases.

          Mental and Psychological Effects on Children who Watch Cartoons From the time children start school to the time that they graduate. This comparison is an outrage because of the amount of television that is watched by a child will have an effect on their brain, emotions and their sense to feel pain. the U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher stated that more aggressive behavior in a young child’s life is caused by frequently watched entertainment that incorporates violence in it. This has become a public health issue and because of the research findings; the American Psychological Association passed a resolution in February of 1985, informing broadcasters and the public about the dangers violence on the television has on children. Three major effects have been proven by psychological research caused by children seeing violence on television are that the child may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others; children who watch violence do not fear violence nor are they bothered by violence in general and the children are more likely to become aggressive or use harmful actions towards others. 

Vocabulary Knowledge!

Using an online dictionary find the meaning of each of the verbs above in your native language.

	Knowledge
Useful Verbs	Word Meaning
tell	Inform
list	a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other
describe	give an account in words of (someone or something)
relate	give an account of (a sequence of events)
locate	discover the exact place or position of
find	discover by chance or unexpectedly
state	a nation/territory considered as an organized political community under one government
name	a word/set of words by which a person, animal, place, etc

Write an original sentence using the word.

1. My humanities teacher told us to do the assignment he gave us for next week

2. The shopping list my mom made is to make her easier when going to the market

3. The police can’t describe how the burglar appearance look like because he is using a mask

4. My aunt is related to her mom

5. Jakarta is located in the north-western Java

6. George’s phone is lost. He’s trying to find it.

7. There’s 3 powerful states in the world. There are United States of America, The State of Israel, and the German State of Bavaria

8. His name is unique and rare  

Activity using Blooms Taxonomy

Activities using Blooms Taxonomy

1. Knowledge- select one character from the novel “Of Mice and Men” who has the qualities of a heroine/hero. List the qualities and tell why you think they are heroic.
From the novel Of Mice and Men, I choose George as the character that has a quality of heroine. Its all because he’s a brave man and responsible with his friend, called Lennie. Lennie is an disabled man, he also have a mental disorder problem. George always protect him, save him from danger, although sometimes George got angry with Lennie. But george really love Lennie as a friend.

2. Comprehension- CONSTRUCT a time line that. summarises what happens in the story “Of Mice and Men”.

1. George and Lennie travel and work together for years. Their last job was in a town called weed
2. George and Lennie are trying to escape
3. They run as far as they could, finally they arrived in a farm place
4. They meet Curley, Curley’s wife, Crooks, Slim, Boss, etc.
5. They are trying to survive their life
6. They got some problems (Lennie kills Curley’s wife, George kills Lennie)


3. Application- THINK of a situation that occurred to a character in the story “Of Mice and Men” and write about how you would have handled the situation differently.
The situation that I’ve chosen about is the scene where Lennie and George are run away. It appears in the first scene of the movie. If I were George, I think I wouldn’t be that brave like what George did. Because George is Lennie’s saviour. He really quick and strong. So, they could escape together. Maybe, I will just sacrifice myself to the people who are attacking me and Lennie.

4. Analysis- IDENTIFY general characteristics (stated and/or implied) of one of the main characters and complete the table below.


Characters Name
1. George

Physical characteristics
1. small
2. quick
3. tall

Personality
1. Rude
2. cares about lennie
3. dreamer
4. anger management
5. brave man

Major challenges/problems
1. the reader would find out that george's anger are not managed, he keeps getting mad or shouts at lennie
2. he keeps on calling a lennie crazy bastard, and allso his use of badwords are really often
3. george is always kind to tell the story of him and lennie together, having their own ranch, and he keeps dreaming about his own ranch


5. Synthesis- CREATE an original character and tell how the character would fit in the story.
Character; George
George is really fit with Of Mice and Men story plots because the story is tell us about friendship and a friendly men which is trying to survive theirself. Then as we know that George and Lennie are escape into a new place, which is they met Curley, Curley’s wife, slim, boss, etc. Then, George have a good ways to socialize with them. Also, George help Lennie to socialize with them too.

6. Evaluation- DECIDE which character in the selection you would most like to spend a day with and describe why.
Character; George
I really want to spend a day with him because I think it’ll be so much fun. Because as we know that George is a really brave and gentleman, so it’ll be so fun if we spend the day together. Escaping from place to another place. I think we’ll be passed such a good time. I could learn more about how to save my life from something really dangerous.

Reflection in Parts of Speech

1.  What have I learnt about grammar that I didn’t know before?

I’ve learnt about grammar a lot. There are nouns, verbs, and tenses, with those types of grammar we could make a good sentences. In sentences we should using independent clause, dependent clause, subject, and predicate. There’s a different types of sentences. There are complex sentences, simple sentences, and compound sentences. Its all made me know more about how to make a good writing. Then, now I know the different from each words that I want to write/type.

Here’s the example of sentences.

1)    Complex sentences: I ate breakfast before I went to school.

2)    Simple sentences: The baby is crying

3)    Compound sentences: This sentences is using FANBOYS. For, and, nor, because, or, and so as the connecting words from each sentences. My friend invited me to her birthday party, but my parents didn’t let me go.

2.  How would this knowledge help me in writing?

This knowledge really helped me with my writing so much, because of this grammar lesson, now I feel more confident and comfortable with my writing tasks then it makes me faster to finished my tasks. I know how to make a good structure of an essay, a good structure of paragraph, a good structure of words, how to separates/connecting/put comma or full stop in my writing and how to put together the pieces of grammar. Now, I feel more easier to do my essay and presentation. Then, my writing mark now is better than before.

MATH :-)

Here's my math investigation.
So, this investigation will show you about what's the height form each bounce of the basketball.
First, we drop the ball then we count the bounces, also we record it. after that, we count the height of each bounce. The materials are chalk, ruler, basketball, and video camera.
Enjoy! :-)
By: Farah nahlia & Bazli ammar

Mother Tongue Weeeeeeeeeek :-)

This week, my school have an agenda. its Mother Tongue Week. On monday, i was wore batik, the national clothes from Java!!!!! and my friends wore it too. Then, the Dayak people from Kalimantan was came to school, they sell their stuffs and much more. So, in this week there's Indonesian day, European day, American day, etc. That's all its so creative. so everbody from other country could feel their tradition and their culture. This agenda is good, so the people would have a good patriotism.

Anyway here's some pictures of Korean Dance!

THANK GOD!!!!! TOMORROW'S FRIDAAAY! (FREE-DAY) :D

Hey you guys!!!! tomorrow's friday!! i'm really happy, because the day after friday is saturday. so i can go out with my friends or spending my weekend laying on my bed, sleeping all daaaaay long. what a good rest!

30 SECONDS TO MARS DRIVIN' ME CRAZY!

I'm in love with 30 Seconds to Mars!!! ESPECIALLY Jared Leto (vocalist), since i was 11 years old! :D
Okay, i'll tell you about the story behind me and the band <3
          When i was 7th grader student, it was the first time i listen to 30 Seconds to Mars song, called Beautiful lie. The song is really great so then i'm searching for another song on their album. Goodness!!!! i'm falling in love with every songs that 30 Seconds to Mars releases!!! their genre is progressive rock. i really like the vocalist voice, so then i'm searching for some pictures of the vocalist. I found out its JARED LETO!!!!, since the first time i saw his picture, i already knew that i'll be one of his biggest fan!  Do you guys want to know the reasons why?
1) he's really really really really really really really handsome
2) he's fashionable as a guy
3) he has a really good healthy six-packs body
4) his eye colour look fantastic! it looks shining!
5) he really like to do mosh pit with his fans in teh concert
6) he's a FRIENDLY GUUUUY
7) his voice!!!!! makes me feel i'm alive and ready to rock!!!!
8) he's really creative! for making videos, song lyrics, and many more. i can't tell you all my reasons because maybe my blog wouldn't be enough to describes him 

Here's the HANDSOME vocalistttt picts. jared leto!

30 Seconds to Mars is the best band that have ever existed on the face of the earth!!! They don't need 30 seconds.They're already on the mars!!!

What i feel inside my heart

I'm the biggest FAN of Shaffer Chimere Smith!!!

GUUUYSSS, do you know who's Shaffer Chimere Smith?

It's NE-YO real name!!!!!!!!!! you know who's ne-yo right?! 

  

Last 2 weeks, i've just watched ne-yo live in concert!!!!! @ Istora Senayan. His performs was SOOOOOOOO B-R-E-A-T-H-T-A-K-I-N-G!!!!!!!! he's full of stamina and looks great! Thenn, this is the most exacerbate part!!!! When he was singing one in a million song, there's a girl called MARIANA went up to the stage!!! AND SINGING TOGETHER WITH NE-YO!!!!!! OH MY GOD. it isnt fair!!!! it supposed to be me!!!!! :'( Then, that girl was like hug ne-yo all the time and really flirty!!! Every girls that watched the concert SCREAMING OUT LOUD (including me:p) shouting "BOOOOO!!!!!!!!! You doesnt deserves it!!!!!!!" haha because we're so envy with her!

BUUUUTTT, there's another part. THIS IS THE BEEEST PARTTT!

in the end of the concert, i went to the BACKSTAGE then took a picture with NE-YO!!!! before take the photo, ne-yo hug me!!!!!!!! really!!! I CANT BELIEVE IT UNTIL NOW! (i should thank my father and his staff, because of him i can met ne-yo) 

Ok! here's the pict

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH :P:P:P 

okay, that's it!

It's time to sleep, have to wake up early tomorrow. SCHOOOOL TIME :'(

Bye!!! Nighttttt people