Book Clubs Prediction: The House of Serect Senses

The House of Secret Senses

The introduction for the book is like a girl named Kwan Li who has a yin eyes which can see spirits and ghosts. She is Chinese born but immigrant to San Francisco because of her father last wish. Her father was killed by lung diseases and has a family in California. He has two sons and one daughter called Olivia Laguni. So Olivia and Kwan is like half-sister. Olivia is really worried and scared that Kwan will come and stay here with them. It is because she thinks that Kwan will take all the love or attentions from the family. By the time, when Kwan moves here she is eighteen and Olivia is just only the age of six. However, Kwan is really good sister. She can takes care of everything for household. Olivia thinks that Kwan is annoying and stupid because she asks everything what she see that she does not know. Therefore, Kwan learns English from Olivia and eventually Olivia learns Chinese from Kwan. Later, Kwan talks about the spirits and how terrible things happened in China before.

My prediction is like since Kwan has a yin eyes, she might be seen the dead of their father. Or maybe the story about how she becomes to see the sprits and since when. Also, the title is like " The Hundred of Secret Sense" Kwan might has superstition power from yin eyes and help the ghost to show the right way to heaven. From there, Olivia becomes to know or learn about the Chinese culture from Kwan.


How I Plan to Annotate my Novel

- notecards
- write the important things happened and stick on the page that related
- important quotes "Highlight"
- write little notes "why it is important and how it is relate to me?"

PW: Idea Draft (9/7/2017)

PW: Idea Draft

     My intention is writing the essay about like how obstacles I had faced while I were learning to read or write. I want to show the experiences of past reading as my examples. And how I think reading the world before I am here and after. Then prediction about how is my future reading and writing will be.

Idea Draft

Idea Draft

1. Significant Experiences
   - 9th grade in High School, first book called " Flight".
   - 3rd grade in elementary school, learning about grammar.
   - Outside Reading called " The Memory of Light"
   - I can read but trouble understanding the main ideas or what the author is trying to say.
   -  Symbolism

2.    How the significant experiences shaped how I see the world?
         After reading about " The Memory of Light", I can understand more about people who are in depression or having a hard time. But in this book, the girl who has depression but she has a courage to step into the world. So what I can relate to the book is that even I think I am not good enough in writing or reading but I do not walk away from my fear. But have more courage to familiar with my weakness. Still cannot read the world yet.

3. Visual text is really helpful to me. It is better to learn in visualizing because pictures also show the same meaning with the text but it has pictures .

4. The past reading experiences are really important because when we were little, we started to learn from alphabets-words and words- sentences. As the long time, we added up what we learned and shaped who we are right now.

Questions or Anxieties about Personal Narrative Interactive

Questions or Anxieties about Personal Narrative Interactive

Questions: 

-How do we use transitions words in narrative essay?

-What are the strategies to build the hook in narrative essay?

- How much time we need to prepare for the essay?

I am not confident about writing essays. like 5/ 10.

They Say, I Say! Annotation for Chapter 7 "So What? Who Cares?"

Chapter 7

Main Points:

• Always necessarily to answer "so what?" and "who cares?"
• Answering "so what?" and "who cares?" makes the reader interesting.
• If not, readers will lose interest of reading
• Readers should know what the author makes the statement and why it is important. 
• "Who cares" : comparing what you want to say and what others say. 
• "So What" : Make your argument stronger and more interesting. 

Quotes: 

"Regardless of how interesting a topic may be to you as a writer, readers always need to know what is at stake in a text and why they should care" p(92)

 The authors point is that even though the problem is really serious or important to you, you need to express why the problem is also important to the readers and why they should concern.

"By suggesting the real- world applications of your claims, the templates not only demonstrate that others care about your claims but also tell your readers why they should care."p(99) 

This quote states that using templates for answering that your claims are important to others but also why your claims are matter to others.

"Ultimately, such templates help you create a dramatic tension or clash of views in your writing that readers will feel invested in and want to see resolved."p(96)

According to this quote, template makes writers to become better describing in their claims. Also, it makes the reader wants to get interesting and active with claims.

Question:

- When do we answer "so what" and "who care"?

They Say, I Say! Annotation for Chapter 3 "The Art of Quoting"

Chapter 3: The Art of Quoting

Main Points:

• Quotations: the evidence to prove the thesis statement.
• Finding Quotations should be wisely because it has to be connect and support with the thesis statement. 
• Thesis Statement and Quotation are two different parts."one coming after the other"p(44)
• "Dangling Quotation"- states the quote but do not support or apply with your thesis. 
• "Quotation Sandwiches"- Statement = Bread, Explanation= Meat.         
• Claim- Quote- Explanation 
• Using Templates are easier to describe the meaning of the quotes. 

Quotes:

"The point we want to emphasize is that quoting what "they say" must always be connected with what you say." p(43)

Graff and Birkensrein state that when the writers try to explain the quotes, it has to connect with him or her claims.

"In fact, sometimes quotations that were initially relevant to your argument, or to a key point in it, become less so as your text changes during the process of writing and revising." p(44)

In the other hands, the authors say that the quotes will lead to not connecting with your claim when you revising or changing the writing styles.

 "When offering such explanations, it is important to use language that accurately reflects the sprints of the quoted passage." p(47) 

 In other words, the authors' point that we need to explain thoroughly about the meaning of the quotes and how the quotes is related with your claim.


Questions:

-How do we know the quote is the perfect quotation for the statement?

 

They Say, I Say! Annotation for Introduction

Introduction

Summary:
 The idea of this book is to become better writers and thinkers. Before becoming an academic writer, the first thing to do is knowing the basic moves. Once we understand and become an expert in writing styles, we will not have a lot of difficulties. The meaning of "They Say... I Say" is that when I(the writer) states the statement, They(the viewer or reader) response based on the statement back to writers. Everyone has different opinions, but when you write the essay, you need to persuade the reader about what you believe. And the reader should respond either agree or disagree and why. Then, the writers gather all the responses and putting into words. By using the example/templates that shown in the book make a better writer and more creative. However, some students do not think that it is creative, believed that making their own will be even better.

Quotes:

"For this reason, one of the main pieces of advice in this book is to write the voices of others into your text"p(3)

This quote means that the writers is rewording the reader's opinion into a text.

"It follows, then, as the figure on the next suggests, that your own argument-the thesis or "I say" moment of your text- should always be a response to the arguments of others." p(4)

This quote means that thesis statement should always be the response of the reader. So that reader can response with either agree or disagree. If not, it does not make sense.

"In other words, the templates offered here are learning tools to get you started, not structures set in stone." p(11)

This quote means that the templates are just a phrase and we can write or fill in the blanks creatively and we can change the styles of the templates however we want. The templates are the tools for practice. We do not have to follow the patterns every single time.

Question:

-How does the templates make more creative in writing?