Letter correction

Dear Ms X, 

Each morning, over the paste six years, I have been happy to see my students walk through the classroom door. It feels so natural to me to be a primary school teacher. However for the past few months I have been longing for and thinking about a new personal challenge in the field of primary education. As I am very much intrigued by different cultures and languages, I have decided look for a position at an international school.

Your school attracted my attention because it is a relatively young school, where I could be part of a pioneering and ambitious team. I also like the fact it is a Dutch subsidised school with competitive fees, open to a variety of students. Furthermore, I value the experience of living in Amsterdam, and I appreciate how your school uses the multicultural atmosphere of the city into the school. I really think this city, and also the Dutch culture have much to offer.

Initially I am interested in teaching groups 3-8. To me, children of these ages are still very spontaneous, eager to learn and able to communicate and discuss well. In view of my university education, teaching in a secondary school might be a future job possibility to me. 

I am an open minded person, I have good social and handle pressure easily. Group management, organising and planning is natural to me. I graduated from an outstanding technical university and worked for several years as a consulting engineer and groupleader in the field of logistics and general management. This is how I developed my rational, analytical and coordinating skills. Then I decided to follow my heart and passion and become a primary school teacher.

I believe I would add value to your organisation with my skills and enthusiasm. I would appreciate the opportunity to be interviewed, so we can discuss more about the job and the possibility of working together. 

Yours sincerely,

Candidate Y

ThinkLink

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Rhetoric activity

These are the rhetorical figures that I found on the text:

Ethos: "(...)young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled."

Pathos: "We are, and always will be, the United States of America" 

Logos: "It was built by working men and women (...) had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause"

Repetition: "(...) who still doubts that America (...), who still wonders if the dream (...), who still questions the power of our democracy (...)" 

Polysyndeton: "(...) to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve" 

Parallelism: "(...) the backyards of Des Moins and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston."

Antithesis and juxtaposition: "(...) the bitter cold and scorching heat (...)"

Varied sentence length: "Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term (...) that we will get there" 

Figurative speech: "(...) a collections of red states and blue states." 

Hypophora: "It's the answer told by lines that (...)"

Upraisisng video

1.- The whole video tries to reflect that idea, because it always show images of a destroyed city. The part when one of the members of the band hits the window, or when the group of "people" is burning a pile of things help to give the idea of chaos and revolution. The letter of the song also helps to develop the idea of revolution and chaos: "Rise up and take the power back/ It's time the fat cats had a heart attack".

2.-  The lyric speaker is very confident, as he calls to reveal against the "fat cats". He do not show fear at any moment.

Fill in the gaps

Young jewish, death, from the nazis, she died age 15 in, studious and intelligent, a passion for, came to power, and outgoing girl, notebook for her, about her dreams, to go to a, shared the small, the hideout and, a mass grave, still unknown, widely read.

Imre Kertesz interview

1.- You feel like in a concentration camp because of the size of the stone blocks, and because they are all so together. It makes you feel vulnerable, and that must have been the feeling that the people in the concentration camps must have felt.


2.- The paradox that is presented at the beginning is that he lives in Germany, the country that once wanted to kill him. According to Imre Kertesz this is the place where he feels free, so he can't live in any other place.


3.- Those who are antisemites after Auschwitz want a new Auschwitz. Those who were antisemites before Auschwitz, wasn't real antisemites (acording to Imre Kertesz).


4.- They can make us much richer if those reminders are told from a complete different perspective. If we ignore them, it can happen again.


5.- When he published "Fatelessness", everyone told him that it was a great novel, but today nobody is interested anymore. The same thing can happen with the holocaust. People will forget it.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" Educreation

The link

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/to-kill-a-mockingbird/23449618/?s=21PO5E&ref=app