ELA Test Prep: Break Homework #3

The purpose of the article New Israeli Law Bans Underweight Models In Ads  By the Associated Press, is to show that finally something is being done about unhealthy models giving bad examples of girls. This is important because the measures being taken and that are outlined in this article, will save girls into falling into the trap of an eating disorder

        

First of the purpose of the article New Israeli Law Bans Underweight Models In Ads  is important is because it shows that being super skinny doesn’t mean beautiful. For example: “Milan's fashion week bans models with a BMI below 18.5.” This shows that instead of promoting eating disorders by displaying models with the disorders, the fashion industry is taking a stand, and realizing that its more important to display a healthy lifestyle rather than an unhealthy one. Which I think is extremely important.

        

Lastly the purpose of the article New Israeli Law Bans Underweight Models In Ads .  Is important because it shows that the government is stepping up and protecting young girls from bad body images by creating a law that requires models to be at  a healthy to be allowed to be on ads for example: “A new Israeli law is trying to fight the spread of eating disorders by banning underweight models from local advertising” This quote shows that law is now in the fight against eating disorders and is trying to prevent them. Which is important because day by day people are influenced by magazines and ads of extremely skinny models who are unhealthy, and they decide to mimic what they see, because they believe that is what they are supposed to look like.

        

From this passage I’ve learned that the government in Isreal is helping to prevent eating disorders and the purpose of the article

New Israeli Law Bans Underweight Models In Ads  have great importance.

Article 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=148981568

ELA Test Prep: Break Homework #2

>What did the student do wrong? What could he/she have done to include the source correctly?

What the student did wrong is he or she just copied and pasted works that wasn’t theirs and made it seem like his or her own work. He/she didn’t give the author of the writing get credit for their own work. What he/she could have done differently is citing her source while copying in pasting or he/she could have paraphrased it.

>Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase. Also, make sure to cite correctly. Consult my post on citing sources.

         I can agree with the quote “This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars.”("A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings", Unknown)

Because……………( elaboration)

>What are at least 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing?

             >One way to avoid plagiarizing is to, instead of copying and pasting whole sections of a passage, finding smaller parts that you could quote in your own writing.

           >A second way to avoid plagiarizing is to use the source you are reading as a guide to get ideas and instead of copying the authors ideas, Use their ideas to branch off and come up with new ideas.

          >Lastly, a way to avoid plagiarizing is to instead of just knowingly using someone else’s work and not quote it. JUST CITE THE PASSAGE it doesn’t count as plagiarism if you give credit to the rightful author 

ELA Test Prep: Break Homework #1

One student blog post that I enjoyed reading was Alli’s response to The Morganville Vampires. I enjoyed it for many reasons because it was overall a very good and interesting post. I feel like Alli introduced her post well because she gave a thought provoking opening paragraph about the main topic of life not being fair. She included questions to engage the reader (me). Which I think was an interesting way to start a post. Also in her introduction she gave her opinion on the topic of not always being fair, which brought up some pretty interesting points that I agreed with. The second thing that I liked about Alli’s blog post was her poem. Mostly I liked her format, in every stanza she started off “if life…” and it was kind of like a cause and affect type poem because it explained what life would be like for example if was easy. I thought that was really interesting aspect of her poem. It added creativity into her poem.

Another student blog post that I enjoyed reading was Eliza’s response on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Not only because I’m a huge Harry Potter fan but also because she made me think of Ron and Harry’s relationship in a different way. Eliza brought up how the two friends both have their misfortunes, but they have different misfortunes, like for example Harry has no family and Ron does but Harry is rich and Ron is poor. I knew all of those things but most of the time I never really thought in depth about it. Which Eliza in this blog post. Another thing that I liked about Eliza’s blog post was how she ended off her blog post she communicates with her readers and it sort of like the discussion questions at the end of a book. Which I thought was clever and added a nice touch to her blog post.

By reading Alli’s and Eliza’s blog posts I will improve on my own blog posts by maybe using the technique Alli used by having an introduction paragraph. That includes questions or opinions because it’s a great way to engage your readers. Another way I’m going to try to improve my reading responses is by using the blog post topic that compares and contrasts two different characters. Both Alli& Eliza’s reading responses were thought provoking. In the future I will try to make my blog posts more thought- provoking.