This round 2, I have learned so many things in Literacy class. Such as Like Learning about Social and Environmental injustice, Living in Landfill, History of Halloween, Debate on letter grade, devil’s advocate, and learning how to write essay.
The rent collector
In our Literacy Wednesday class, we have been reading a book that called The rent collector. The author is Camron Wright. This book was related to people’s life in Steung Meanchey dump place in Cambodia and it also related to Literacy. This book is really good because it taught me that Literacy is really important for us. Even though we live in the dump place but literacy can change our life. It’s kind of related to our lesson about environmental injustice because inn this story is talking about how trash affect our health and how many garbage that enter into the landfill everyday.
Debating
I’m really interested in debating because it’s help me a lot. Such as like helping me to know more idea of the other team why they choose to agree or disagree with that statement. It’s also help me to trying to find the solution. In future we are not only debating in our class but we could debate for best solution to our country.
For this debating, the statement was Schools should stop the practice of giving letter grades to students. Instead, they should only give written feedback. I was agree on this statement.
Learning something is not always depend on letter grades but it’s depend on what are you really get to learn in your class. Because if you are cheating, you just get the high letter grades and your learning is just going down. And you won’t study hard enough to get your own scores just sit still and copy other work. By the way if you get the feedback from your teachers or you facilitators, you will know what is your grade really is? Educators say giving feedback is gives parents more information about their child’s performance in the classroom.
Facts:
Grades are preferable. They offer clean lines of demarcation between types of performance, types of student, types of future. They point us in a few clear directions. They tell us that a student needs help. They tell us a student has talent. But they don’t tell us how to help, how to IMPROVE talent, how to push students to be better.
Devil’s Advocate
After the debating ended, we have learned about devil’s advocate. Being Devil’s advocate is we are trying to argue with our idea because when we know what are the question that the other side will ask. So it’s easy for us to find the solution to fight them. In the lesson, we have so many topics. My topic is about Every society should follow the one child rule. For the first time, I was disagree with is topic but after I did some research I’m kind agree with it. Here some of my researching on Every society should follow the one child rule.
The Chinese government says that the One Child Policy has restrained China’s mushrooming population (claiming that it has prevented an estimated 400 million births since its inception in 1980).
- If there are four children in each of your family how about the world, how many population?
1.Population Control. China is one of the most populous countries in the world, with its population over 1 billion. Without the policy, this number will continue to add up and this can aggravate the problem of overpopulation.
- If there are so many children in your family, how can each of they get the jobs easily?
2. Job Opportunities. With the strict rule of One Child Policy, children who grew up during this period were able to find jobs easily since there will be positions available. jobs will need to be filled in and the younger generation will be the ones to take the place of the available jobs.
- If there so many children in your family do you have times for them or get them something that they need?
3.Better Life. Having only one children is having a comfortable life. This is because all the attention, love and financial resources of the parents will be enjoyed by the child. He or she will have the chance to get the best education, better health care and job opportunities.
- Do you able to have enough sources for pay your children?
4 Incentives. As a reward for complying with the policy, Chinese parents who followed the rule they will apply for education loans for their children, longer days of maternity leave and housing loans. Without the policy, parents will not be able to take advantage of these privileges. (futureofworking.com)
I really love debating. It gave me a lot of information that I never knew before. I helping me to find the best solution on what we are allow or not allow to happen.
Writing essay
Writing essay is not an easy thing to do but you need to find the strong resource, grammar and experience. For only one essay, you need to check with your facilitator for two times and with your classmates for two to three times. Here is my final essay that I have been working on for two weeks. Enjoy reading!
Dalen En
Hannah Trivit
English Literacy
14 december 2018
Fighting For The Earth Green Life
Argument essay
Nowadays deforestation is increasing over years. In fact, We’re losing 18.7 million acres of forests annually, equivalent to 27 soccer fields every minute. One and a half acres of forest is cut down every second. It is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rain-forests. Do you ever think about, where are all the air that you breath come from? Do you ever think, why the climate is changing? And why mostly are the farmers getting in poverty?
Although it is considered to be a benefit to the economy of Cambodia, we should take action to protect Cambodia’s forests and wildlife because the forests help sustain life, reduce poverty, and decrease climate change.
Everyone should protect life on land because forests cover nearly thirty-one percent of our planet’s land area. “For forests are home to more than 80 percent of all land animals, plants and insects.” From the air we breathe to the water we drink, to the food we eat–forests sustain us. This means that we need trees to live. Water combines with carbon dioxide and sunlight to make sugar which is food for the tree. During this process, called photosynthesis, trees also produce oxygen. Trees also help to keep the air clean and fresh. For example, let’s consider the water we drink. The Educational nature writes “ There is more than 50 percent of water in a single tree. Forests play a big role in providing water. Forests are very good at allowing water to enter the ground.” This evidence is very helpful to our world of protecting the forest. Not only protecting forest but it also protects life on this planet. If we continue cutting down the tree is smash wildlife and your life. A story about green energy by Irene Chan. “ Baby has a blanket. It’s not too big or too little. It’s not too thick or too thin. It’s just right. When baby puts the blanket on, she feels warm. The earth has a blanket, too. Just like a baby! The earth’s blanket is air. Air is made up of many different gases. We can’t see them, but they’re all around us. Plants and animals need air to live. Sunlight warms the earth. The blanket of air helps hold the warmth in. Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide, are very good at this. They are called greenhouse gases. But people adding more greenhouse gases to the air. Cars and trucks burn fuel that makes extra carbon dioxide. Power plants and factories do, too. The extra greenhouse gases hold in too much warmth. Under the blanket, the earth is getting too hot. How can people help? We can use others kinds of energy that don’t add greenhouse gases to the air. This is called green energy. Baby wants to help. Too! What can she do? Walk instead of ride. Turn off the lights. Recycle. Baby love green energy because Baby loves our earth.” In this story, all the plants, animals and human are depending on the forest which is green energy.
Although around 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihood. The forest products the source of economic growth in the world. About 1 billion people worldwide depend on drugs from forest plants for their medicinal needs. 8,000 types of forest are used in the world to support agriculture, environmental sustainable as well as food and nutrition security. From the website call Down To Earth “ 75 percent of the world’s poor are affected by land degradation, because of those areas with low agriculture productivity and economic potential. There are some concerns that these areas wouldn’t be developed and they getting poor.” An example of Cambodia livelihood. Cambodia is a country which is developed by agriculture. If Cambodia facing land degradation, our country will getting poorer and won’t develop. 1.44 million hectares of forests and woodlands are lost every year due to deforestation, causing a large amount of income to poor people living in areas who depend on the forest to survive. This information means that we should take action to protect Cambodia’s forests.
Even climate change, it also caused by deforestation. Deforestation is very important in global climate change. Climate change is because of a build-up of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere .we can expect the climate of our planet to change over the next ten years. It is estimated that more than 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released to the atmosphere due to deforestation, mainly the cutting and burning of forests, every year. “From the Newsela article that call Africa’s “Tree of Life,” the baobab, may be the victim of climate change. This article was about Baobab trees are found in the grasslands of Africa, Madagascar, and Australia. They can live for thousands of years. Now Baobab trees are in danger. By the researching form a rain-forest expert at George Mason University in Virginia. He agrees that climate change is probably what is killing the large baobabs. The climate change came from a change in the trees’ environment.” Africa is not only a country that facing this problem even in Cambodia, but we also facing this problem, losing forests. There are not only baobab trees is important. Every single kind of tree can control climate change. Even though each of you is cutting down a single tree. In the future, all of you will kill all the trees. As my own experience, when I was young. My house was surrounded by mango trees. At night times, I don’t even need fans. After a few years later, my dad cut down all those mango trees. After all, I always need the fan even at night time. That was just a little amount of tree but it changes my environment to get hotter. How about 18.7 million acres of forests annually? It’s really really hot.
Tree can control everything even poverty, climate change and your health. If climate change your health also change. In Cambodia there are only two season, dry season and rainy season. Let’s go back to three years past, rainy season there are always rain. Now, even rainy season but there no raining. As my own experience, I always get headache whenever the temperature is too hot. That is affect to health problem by climate change. Continue cutting down tree, every single of you will get headache. You don’t even know that your daily life is depend on tree. Trees are really important to all of you. Tree is oxygen.Saving tree saving your life. Growing more trees helping life.