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.