My diary- Critical Reading and Reflection

The critical reading class, Aj.Usaa Noytim taught us many things about it. First thing from first week, she taught me about what does the critical reading mean. I knew and understood that the critical reading is reading and understanding the texts what the propose of the author want to tell the audience. When we read the text we have find what is the main idea and what is the propose in the text to make us understand. She gave the sheet to about Mona Lisa's picture the painting of Leonardo da Vinci's to made us critic from the picture. And then read the text. I think I got the knowledge from reading the text. She also taught me the techniques to read the text to critical and understand. For the another week, we learnt how to find main idea in the text. She asked to find main idea from the sheet step by step by reading. She asked to read the paragraphs and find the main idea by six steps each one paragraph. It was very good to find the main idea step by step because it made me understand easier than just only reading the text without techniques for reading.

I also studied fact and opinion, I think it was easy to find the facts and opinion because it eases to find the words from the text, they always use the fact that is true story and they will use the number or anything base from history or true story. If it's the opinion they will use their feeling and what are they think it could be good or bad depend on their opinions. I could identify between the fact and opinion because  I understand what they are.

This semester we learnt many thing about critical reading from the book review, movie review that Aj.Usaa taught how to find the main idea of the reviewer and understand the review by finding the author's purpose, tone, point of view and intended audience. And I could understand the reviewer that they use the negative or positive words on the review from their opinions. After I practiced reading the book review from Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language book review and movie review from The first grader. I could read and understand the book review and movie review from the book and movie that I interested.

We learnt about how to read and understand the advertisements. What kind of words that they use on the advertisements. I could find the theme line and main idea of the advertisements from the words they used. Most of advertisements will use the positive words and adjective words to persuade the audiences to use their products.

The last thing we learnt in the critical reading class it is Reading editorial and article from the news. I got the knowledge and trick to read and understand the text. I can understand that the author do like or do not like that topic from the positive and negative words that they use.

In my opinion I think I really liked this class because Aj.Usaa always gave me new things that I never known before. She gave me the tricks for critical reading. I got many things that I can apply some of the tricks in another subjects. Maybe I could use it in my future when I work. I liked when Aj.Usaa always asked us to share ideas together.

My diary 23/9/2013 - week 15

Today is the last day to study the critical reading class with Aj.Usaa Noytim before the examination. Today we continued study about Reading News Articles from last week. She asked us to share the ideas and answer the questions about "Facebook to share your info for money" on the white board for 6 questions. This is my answers and my ideas from the questions.
1. how many users does Facebook have?
Facebook has over 400 million users.

2.  With what websites has Facebook recently begun sharing users’ personal profile information?

Facebook has recently begun to share information with Pandora and Yelp.

3.  What other changes has Facebook recently made to the website?

Facebook made it so that they could sell information about a user even if that information was thought to be private by the user. Facebook has also begun to be included on other websites.

4.  Even if you block information shared from your site, how could your personal information still be made public?

The information could still be shared from a friend's account.

5.  Do you think Facebook should automatically share your info, and only refrain from doing so if you know about it and go into your settings to opt out?  Explain your answer.

Facebook should not automatically share information because many people do not know that Facebook will share their information and the user should know that information will be shared before it is shared to keep the privacy of the user. Facebook can still make money by displaying targeted advertisements on its own website without having to share the information with other companies or people.

6.  This article states “Facebook wants to make money by selling user information.”  Do you think that is their motive for sharing your info, or is it as Facebook stated, to assist users by "promot[ing] social activity" by sharing your info? Explain your answer.

Facebook's motivation for sharing information is based on making money. Facebook can sell the personal information of its users to companies which will use it for marketing. All for-profit companies exist only to make money. In addition, if Facebook does intend to “promote social activity”, then they will also make money by enhancing the features of their service and attracting new users.

And the last thing for this class Aj.Usaa told us the score we got from the quizzes and checked the work  assignments for someone who still not send them yet. She asked us about the date we can do the exam for the critical reading subject and finished class. I think this lesson was very good and easy to understand. I can apply how to read the article with other subjects.

My diary 19/9/2013 - week 14

Today, I studied about Reading Editorials with Aj.Usaa Noytim. She taught us about what does the editorial means. We read the example editorial about the light rail cars collided with a stopped one-car train in San Francisco 44 people hurt. She told us how to find what was that editorial about. There are facts-number, dates, names,places and exact quotations from the report. If we read another editorial there are the author's opinion and also facts in the article from Another enormous Obamacare "Oops" article. Aj.Usaa asked to find the names of people, organizations and important facts in this article. And find the main idea of the author. We shared our ideas and wrote them on the white board. And I learnt about how to comment from the author's opinion and he brought the fact and wrote them together with his opinion. I think I understand more how to write the comment and bring the fact in the article too. After that we studied Reading News Articles about "Facebook to share your info for money" Aj.Usaa asked us to share the words that associate with Facbook. We could share so much ideas about the words on Facebook because we always use it everyday and anytime. We know it very well. I think it was so interesting lesson. I could learn many thing from this lesson included finding the main idea in the editorials and there are many techniques to read the article. I think I can apply it with other subjects.  

My diary 12/9/2013 - week 13

Today I continued study the advertisement from last week with Aj.Usaa Noytim. She taught me how to find the theme line in the advertisements on paper sheet. So, we practiced to find the theme line and what was about in the ads. We did the activities together in the class. We could share our ideas about the theme line from each advertisement.  Finally, she assigned the homework for us to find two advertisements that we can understand and work on it. I really liked this lesson because I could share my idea about it with my classmates. Today, it was very fun because we shared our ideas by writing our ideas about theme line in the ads on the white board.

My diary 5/9/2013 - week 12

I studied about movie review reading with Aj.Usaa Noytim. She asked to write the words associate with the movie review on the white board. There are many words about the movie review. And then she gave us a new worksheet about the first grader movie review. We read two movie reviews and compare between two reviews how is different about the author's opinion. First movie review, when I read it, the writer liked this movie because they always had the positive words and I had to write the detail about the first one on the worksheet. Second movie review, it was not a good movie for the writer because the writer didn't like this movie because they are many negative words and write the detail about it on the worksheet. We had to compare between to review. It was so different because it's the author's opinion. And then she started to teach us about how to read the advertisement.  In the end of the class, she asked us to do the movie review that we like. I really the lesson because I could share my idea. It makes me want to read the movie review after I watch movie. It was a great lesson.

My diary 29/8/2013 - week 11

Today I studied about reading book reviews with Aj.Usaa Noytim. She gave us a worksheet about the Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language book review. We read them and found the author's opinions, both positive and negative comments on the book. Then, we shared the ideas in the class. After that, Aj.Usaa gave us worksheet about the meaning of the fiction and non-fiction and how to read the book review so that we can find the comment of the writer. We did the exercise together and found which statements are negative and which statements are positive. I really liked the lesson because it helped me learn more about how to read book reviews. I could see many book reviews on the internet but sometimes I didn't understand them. Today I learned about it, and now if I read another book review I will understand it more and more. It was a fantastic lesson.