I read the article called "The Wisdom of Toads" written by Puerto del Sol. The story is about a man who is in prison commits a crime. He has three daughters and wife and also he is a teacher. He stays in the prison because he falls in love with his student. A girl is only fourteen years old.
When I read the paragraph three, I thought that the author's writing is an individual and interesting style of writing because the reader can not predict the whole story if they read only paragraph three. And I learned that the author used a hook for the readers. I used the reading strategies called 'I use a dictionary to help me understand what I read' in paragraph three because there was many difficult words for me, so I used the dictionary to understand these words. And also I used 'I try to picture in my mind what I have just read to help me remember what I read'. I imagined that the toad was moving in the sand whole and I felt sick because I really hated the toad. I had two questions after reading paragraph three. First question is why does he stay in the prison? Second question is why did he catch the toad?
In paragraph six and seven, the toad was used for the drug by prisoner because they can relief from walls and bars when they smoked the toad. While I was reading this paragraph, I could get the answer of one of my questions. He caught the toad because he tried to use it for the drug. I used the reading strategies called 'When text becomes difficult I re-read it to increase my understanding'.
When I read the paragraph ten and eleven, I learned that he had three children and he loved so much his children. I would say that he was a good father because he tried to teach to his children about different things between other fathers. And I thought that he was a science teacher because he observed the toad and treasured it. I used the reading strategies called 'When I read I translate from English into my native language' in the last sentence of the paragraph ten because I couldn't understand clearly the meaning of the sentence.
I felt shock about him after reading the paragraph 14 because he fell in love with a girl who was one of his students. He tried to start a new life with her but she was only 14 years old. I was really surprised because she was only 14 years old. Did he recognize that his conduct will be guilt?
After I read this story, I thought that to fall in love with other is normal thing but a girl is too young for him in the story. I imagined that if my teacher fell in love with his student who is 14 years old, I will surprise and I can’t respect him anymore. The teachers must not fall in love with their students because they have to teach about the learning to their students in school. Through this story, I thought that there were many difficult words for me in each paragraphs and I used the dictionary many times while I was reading. Although this story was a little bit difficult for me, I liked the author’s style of writing.
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In the first paragraph you have got the author's name wrong but you have got the central idea.
In the second paragraph, you needed to give an example of the reading strategy you used. For example, state a word and its meaning that you looked up in the dictionary.
In the third paragraph, you should have used what you know about the story to understand why Lamberton talked about the toads. Re-reading would have helped you too.
In the fourth paragraph you talk about his love for his daughters, but you don't connect it with his infatuation for his student. It seemed to me that you were just going through the story paragraph by paragraph without really connecting all the pieces together.
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