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Spring Semester Courses Early American Studies	Online Interest Reading Short Story wiki
	ESL Links (NEW!!!)

Idioms

aschwar — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:04:26 CDT

Idioms are phrases that carry a different meaning than the words that form them.
Please share your examples of idioms here:

Piece of cake - Something that is very easy.

a. If you know the material, the test will be a piece of cake.

b. Can you show me how to use this program? Sure, piece of cake.

On the house - free, paid for by the establishment.

a. Because the restaraunt is celebrating its anniversary, all drinks are on the house.

( to be paid) Under the table - discretely and without paperwork.

a. Because Maria is paid under the table, she does not pay taxes on her earnings.

Tie the knot - To get married.

a. After three years living together, Max and Anita finally decided to tie the knot.

Barking up the wrong tree -

A chip off the old block -

On cloud 9 - extemely happy
a. Maxwell was on cloud 9 after Maria kissed him for the first time.

Out of one's head

Play it by ear

Set in stone

Nailed down

Sooner or later

Fly by the seat of your pants

Make it happen

Laid off, lay off, layoffs

The ends justifies the means

Think on your feet - To think or respond quickly.
a. A good manager has the ability to think on his feet and deal with unexpected situations.

Dragging his feet

Read my lips

It will pay for itself

Flea market

Class clown

Lose your temper/cool

A no brainer

Play devil’s advocate

Set the bar very/too high

The lion’s share

Red tape

Cold feet

Set (sth.) in motion

Look (sth.) up in the dictionary (see phrasal verbs)

Kick out/off

Release a statement

Shut (so.) up (see phrasal verbs) -

Take them to the cleaners -

Par for the course -

Plan on (doing something) -

Head (his/her/my) way -

Bully pulpit -

To take (sth.) with a grain of salt -

ESL Links

aschwar — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:47:40 CDT

Useful links for students learning English

Many Things for ESL/EFL Students
http://www.manythings.org
Shockwave and Java games for ESL Students
Direct link to pronunciation practice - http://www.manythings.org/pp/

Learning Vocabulary Fun
http://vocabulary.co.il/index_main.php
More vocabulary buliding games

The sounds of English, Spanish, and German
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
Very useful interactive website that provides diagrams of how the mouth makes the sounds of various languages.

OWL at Purdue University "Use and Non-Use of Articles"
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslart.html
Review your article usage.

Tell me a story

aschwar — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:47:40 CDT

This is your chance to use your creativity. No rules here. Just add to the story however you like.

Once upon a time...

The Running Vocabulary List

aschwar — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:05:20 CDT

A-C

Term	Definition

D-G

Term	Definition

H-L

Term	Definition

M-Q

Term	Definition

R-Z

Term	Definition

Short Story

aschwar — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:03:00 CDT

Short Story
WIKI

“Create A Reading Habit”

Reading for pleasure will build your comprehension, vocabulary, English skills, reading speed, fluency and knowledge…
Here’s one doable way to begin and maintain
A “Reading Habit”:

How can you read for pleasure with all the reading assignments in college?
Take 10-15 minutes to Read One Short Story per Day

For more specific strategies to improve Comprehension, English Speaking Skills and Fluency and/or to discuss a short story with peers in a "Short Story Group of 4 or Less" please email Teri Azar, Reading Specialist at tazar@soka.edu to set up an appointment.

SHORT STORIES (Narratives or Stories)

Please use the wiki list below as a guide to get started with short stories. Please also add your own short stories, sites, audios, comments and anything else you want to share in relation to the story. Reading short stories is one great option to making pleasure reading doable. We all know how hard it is to read a book, even a great book, when we are so busy. But, a wonderful short story can be read in 10 minutes offering, sometimes, as much enjoyment as that great book! You will be increasing comprehension, vocabulary, English skills, fluency..and may be inspired, awed, enlightened, soothed, affirmed, or humored! Some very short inspiring and funny stories can be found in any of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Many students are enjoying Chicken Soup for the College Soul and Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul. You can have a “serving” a day in 10 minutes by randomly opening the book up and reading the story that is there. You might get a short read that is just what you needed! These books have sold out in the SUA Bookstore, but you can find them on Amazon.com. You can also find the audio CDs to go with them for even greater practice with reading and listening to the English at the same time. Please scroll down to see the wiki short story list of great online short stories to enjoy and add to. Under the sites for short stories you will find the favorite authors of students here at Soka including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Po, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Perhaps some of them are yours.

VOCABULARY BUILDING

Please share vocabulary words that are new to you on the wiki. You may define them or leave them to be defined by someone else.
While you are reading what you want to read is an optimum time to add to your vocabulary. When you WANT to know an unknown word and it is in context of your interest reading it is easiest to learn!
So, as you read a short story, highlight words or phrases (idioms) that you don’t know. Try to figure them out from the words around them, or context. Look them up quickly as needed. After reading come back to look at ones you want to remember and write them down in a notebook with their definitions. Keep this “Running Dictionary” going as a great learning tool. You can add your words below under a short story you would like to share. The lists provide “frontloading” to other students who want to understand the vocabulary before reading, another very good strategy.
Tools to help you with vocabulary development:

1. Download peetareader at oopsenglish.com and plug it into all of your online reading for instant definitions while reading

2. Read with dictionary.com and Idiomconnection.com minimized to get quick definitions for words and phrases
*The quizzes at Idiomconnection.com are great learning tools!
3. Read with your electronic dictionary.

READING RESPONSES

Please share reactions or responses to any of the stories you read without giving away too much about the story. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Questioning is a great comprehension strategy for all reading. There are 6 cognitive levels from which these types of questions come from. Here are a few you can choose to respond from in each level:

Knowledge: Talk about some of the facts or details in the plot that got your interest.
Comprehension: Give a quick summary of the story.
Application: Tell how an event, person, or place in this story is like one in your life or world. Tell how a theme in this story is universal and found in another story or life.
Analysis: Talk about one part of the story that you liked best or that moved you most.
Synthesis: Tell how this story motivated you to try something new.Tell how something from this story can be or was taken into your life or the world to make it better.
Evaluation: Tell how a character was "right or wrong" in his/her actions. Tell why you liked the story or why not? Tell how the story is meaningful beyond the plot. Talk about the author’s writing style and use of literary devices that were effective such as personification, simile, metaphor, or irony. Tell how the author’s life might have influenced the story.

Short Story Wiki

Please use this list to get reading ideas. Please also add new titles, interesting related sites as inspired by the story, vocabulary and/or idioms under specific stories that you learned through reading it and/or a response or comment about the story. Your addtitions will help others and reinforce your own vocabulary and comprehension development.

Short Stories Sites: Please add any short story sites that you find:
Short Story Sites:
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
http://www.classicshorts.com
Favorite Soka student authors like Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Po, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain , Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and more..

Enhance your English practice in a short time by listening to a story as you read. You can download or buy audios for short stories at:

Audible.com@
http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/LandingPages/googleHome.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes
Learnoutloud.com @
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Literature/Short-Stories
Chicken Soup for the College Soul Order this collection of inspiring and funny 5-10 minute reads all about college days at Amazon .com
Increase your English practice by listening as you read to some of these stories on CD or download the stories to your computer; scroll down to Product Details at:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1558747028/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-4015031-6232015

Chicken Soup for the College Soul Favorites (also on Audio):

There are 18 Audio stories from the book of over 100 very short stories: Please add new stories not listed, vocabulary, idioms, comments and responses to this list:

Audio #18: If the Dream Is Big Enough the facts Don’t Count p20

Black-top: Asphalt covered surface, like the black street paving

This is a great short story about how perseverance and holding on to a dream can make it come true. It is an inspiration to stay focused on your dreams, even through the hard times.

Audio #11: How to Get an A on Your Final Exam p 94
Barely: hardly.. “by the skin of my teeth”
Cumulative: covers an entire course; covers all your learning;
Huff and puff: out of breath..breathing hard
Indoctrinate: to fill with a certain set of opinions or set beliefs
Proctor: administrator of test; prevents cheating; sets and enforces rules to follow
Shoved: pushed; put away fast as into a desk
Slumped: sad, sorry, defeated, overwhelmed
Sneaky: Pull the wool over, try to fool, try to get away with something, sly, dishonest, someone you cannot trust; not trustworthy
Stack: pile of something like papers; things on top of other things
nosebleed section: seating very high up
How dare he!: he is so without humility

This story will make you laugh or gasp.
The student is really humorous and clever !!

Audio #6 A Homecoming of a Different Sort p298
Forego: skip, not do
Glimpse: a fast look at something
Squint: Squeeze eyes because of anger, or trying to focus, or because the sun or bright light is flashing in your eyes
The universal theme of parent pushing child to “do what’s best” VS. the child’s wishes comes through this story and can help you think about both sides of this issue and have compassion for both parent and child.

Audio #9 Never Too Late to Live Your Dream p290
banquet: a ceremonious feast
beaming up : showing lots of positive energy, enthusiasm
bestowed: to present as a gift or honor
icon: a picture or image; symbol of greatness
jittery: shaking from nerves due to being scared; cold, etc
“living it up”: having the best time you can have
Response: This very inspiring story inspired me to search the song The Rose that was mentioned in this story about a very special lady named Rose. The link to the song is: http://www.ourweddingsongs.com/wedding-prelude-music/the-rose-lyrics Great Messages in the story and song!
Audio #4 Learning How to Be Roommates p. 119
Inexplicably: unexplainable
Infuriated: Extremely angry
Leapt: sprung; past tense of leap
“Lysol headaches”: headaches from the smell of Lysol, a strong scented (smelling) cleaner
A heartwarming story of how roommates find a surprising answer to their challenge of getting along.

Audio # 17 #38 Chucky Mullins p. 231
Jarring: painful hitting or knock
Knelt (kneel): Past tense of kneel to position yourself on one knee
Catastrophic: sudden disaster
Vertebrae: small bones making up spine
Stunned: unconscious for a short time; alarmed, stopped
Accolade: praise, honor, award
Devastating: causing great damage, destruction or distress

The Day at the Beach p. 163 (not on Audio)
Bleak
Paralysis
Gruffness
Dune
Blot it out: erase or delete it
Vault
Frantic uncontrived
“Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it”
Great advice from this story on how to get past a standstill or block in life

Good-Bye, Mr. Blib p.36 (not on Audio)
tick by: to pass
Plague: to cause pain or trouble to sb/sth over a period of time
Hygiene: the process of keeping yourself clean in order to prevent illness
Hamper:a large basket with a lid, especially one used to carry food in
Strange Scholarships p.14 (not on Audio)
needy: not having enough money,food, clothes,etc
A Proposal to Myself p.32 (not on Audio)
Exude:if you exude a particular feeling or quality, people can easily see that you have it
Bid: to offer, pay a particular price for sth.
Your Legacy p.108 (not on Audio)
Disheveled:very untidy
Esoteric:likely to be understand or enjoyed by only a few people with a special knowledge or interest.
Musty:smelling damp and unpleasant because if a lack of fresh air

Short Stories:
Be sure to search your favorite authors to see if they have written short stories. Many of them have and your search will lead you to more authors like them as well.

Here are some classic short stories that some Soka students have already enjoyed, learned vocabulary/ idioms from and discussed.

Please add more stories, vocabulary, idioms, responses, comments and relevant sites, such as audio downloads, or sites that the story may have inspired you to search and find.

The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
http://amb.cult.bg/american/4/steinbeck/chrysanthemums.htm
EPICAC by Kurt Vonnegut http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~tarantul/epicac.html
picking up a check: Paying for something
fizzled: failed after a good start
sluggish: slow moving
crackerjack: expert
you won’t do: you are not acceptable
flabbergasted: astounded
rocket trajectory: the path of a rocket
mush: overly sentimental
stumped: confused thoroughly
cadaver: a dead body
demise: death
he bore me no grudge: he did not resent me
The Legacy by Virginia Wolf http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91h/chap17.html
brooch: a piece of jewelry with a pin
tiffs; small disagreements
legacy: what is left to someone after death; inheritance
drab: dull
prominent: well known
incongruous: unsuitable
in mourning: in a state of grief for someone who has died

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SS16.HTML
The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/chopin.html
crying his wares: shouting out what he has to sell
elusive: hard to catch
striving: trying very hard
save; except
shudder: an uncontrollable shake
grip sack: a traveling bag
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MissBril.shtml
drifting: floating down
tingling: a prickly sensation
gone on: talked endlessly
swooping: moving downward quickly
staggerer: someone that moves very unsteadily
scolding: expressing disapproval
shabby: worn and old looking
hobbled: walked with great difficulty
invalid: a sickly person
whiting: a kind of fish
ma petite cherie: my little darling (French)

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI by O'Henry
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html

LOVE OF LIFE by Jack London

http://www.online-literature.com/london/76/

THE TELL TALE HEART by Edgar Allen Po

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/telltale.html

THE LADY OR THE TIGER by Frank Stockton

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LadyTige.shtml ories/telltale.html"

AN OCCURANCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE by Ambrose Bierce
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/375

A WHITE HERON by SarahOrne Jewett
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/awh/heron.htm

The Last Question by Issac Asimov
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1952

Online Interest Reading

aschwar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:23:30 CDT

Online Interest Reading
WIKI
High Interest Reading Will Improve Your Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Reading Speed

“How to Create A Reading Habit”

How can you Read for Pleasure with all the Reading Assignments in College?

Take at least 10-15 minutes a day to Read
1 or 2 Online Interest Articles

ONLINE INTEREST ARTICLE READING

(Expository or Informational Text)
To get started with online interest reading, write down 3 of your top passions or interests.
These could be people, places, books, authors, animals, holidays, sports, food, pets, hobbies, music, movies, etc..
Then search Google for one and read about it for 10-15 minutes.
Do this each day. Fun and easy! You may also enjoy searching wikipedia.com for information on just about anything or Amazon.com for book reviews.

Yes, you can read about your favorite movies, musicians, politicians, athletes, movie stars, etc. .
Just 10 minutes..(or so) and you are practicing reading fluency, speed, building comprehension, and building vocabulary. It is just that easy!

VOCABULARY BUILDING

Please share vocabulary words that are new to you on the wiki. You may define them or leave them to be defined by someone else.
While you are reading what you want to read is an optimum (best) time to add to your vocabulary.
When you WANT to know an unknown word and it is in context of your interest reading it is easiest to learn!

So, as you read an online article, highlight words or phrases (idioms) that you don’t know.
Try to figure them out from the words around them, or context. Look them up quickly as needed.
After reading come back to look the ones you want to remember and write them down in a notebook with their definitions.
Keep this “Running Dictionary” going as a great learning tool. You can add your words to share below under an online article you have chosen them from.
The lists provide “frontloading” to other students who want to understand the vocabulary before reading, another very good strategy.

Tools to help you with vocabulary development:
1. Download peetareader at oopsenglish.com and plug it into all of your online reading for instant definitions while reading
2. Read with dictionary.com and Idiomconnection.com minimized to get quick definitions for words and phrases
*The quizzes at Idiomconnection.com are great learning tools!
3. Read with your electronic dictionary.
Great sites to 10 minute ..(or more) read: Amazon.com (to search any book or author) http://movies.go.com/ Wikipedia.com (to look almost anything up)
Reader’s Digest: http://www.rd.com/

Student Generated Interests to look up Online:

Wiki

Here are some high- interest online topics generated by Soka students including places, people, professions, hobbies, and sites of specific articles.
They can serve as a starting point for your search for 10 minute read ideas.
Please add your own interests, favorite online articles and essays, sites, vocabulary learned and comments to the list.

Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy for Memory and Concentration:
http://wlnaturalhealth.com/aromatherapy-articles/aromatherapy-memory-concentration.htm
Bubble Tea
Carpenters (singers)
Chaplin
China Tea History: http://travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine-drink/tea/index.htm
The Cinderella Story
Dancing
Denmark
Disneyland
Disney Stories
Dr. Daisaku Ikeda
http://sgi-usa.org/thesgiusa/aboutsgi/ikeda.html
Drawing
Europe
Fairy tales

Flight Attendant
Frederick Douglass
Fukuoka
Global warming
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003411/causes.htm
Guitar
Harry Potter
Haruki Murakam
Health Issues
Allergies:

Distraction Tactic Wipes out Allergies:
www.newscientist.com

Sept 30, 2006 Obesity Kids Eat More in Groups:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=2872760

Healthy Sleep Tips:
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/
Himeji
History
Humor
In her Shoes
Ichiro Suzuki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro-Suzuki
Japan
http://www.japanfocus.org/products/topdf/2362
Kimono History
http://www.japanesekimono.com/kimono_history.htm
JK Rollings
Johnny Depp
Laguna Beach
Legally Blonde

The Lion King

Lord of the Rings
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Miyazaki: (Spirited Away)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
Monet
Movies
Music
Nagasaki
Nelson Mandela
New York
Not a Girl, Not yet a Woman
O’Henry
Osaka
Pets and Pet Therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/therapy_dog
http://www.petnet.com.au/power/benefits.html
Peace Studies
Peru
Paul Simon
Pirates of the Caribbean
Poetry
Tennis:
Wikipedia.com: search: Roger Federer
Sleep:
Why we’re not immune to losing sleep
www.newscientist.com
Stress management:
http://www.ivf.com/stress.html

List of Phrasal Verbs

aschwar — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:43:55 CDT

On this page, list phrasal verbs you encounter in alphabetical order and indicate whether they are seperable (S) or non-seperable (NS). Provide definitions and examples for the phrasal verbs on the list. Some phrasal verbs may vary depending on meaning. You will see that one verb can be part of several different phrasal verbs.

Act like -
Act out -
Act up -

Check in(to) -
Check out -
Check out of -

Drink up -

Drive off (NS) -

Give in -
Give out -
Give up -

Look around (NS) -
Look down on (NS)
Look in on (NS) -
Look into (NS) -
Look forward to (NS) -
Look on (NS) -
Look up (S) -
Look up to (NS) -

Run into (someone) (NS) -
Run into (something) (S) -

Wander off (NS) -

Improving Vocabulary Skills

aschwar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:12:47 CST

Words taken from Improving Vocabulary Skills 3rd Edition by Nist and Mohr

Please provide definitions and example sentences.

Chapter 13
Curtail
Devastate
Digress
Incentive
Incorporate
Indispensable
Intermittent
Rigor
Squander
Succumb

Chapter 14
Alleviate
Benefactor
Covert
Cynic
Demise
Infamous
Intrinsic
Revulsion
Speculate
Virile

Chapter 15
Abstain
Affiliate
Agnostic
Aspire
Benevolent
Deficit
Dissent
Diversion
Lucrative
Mandatory

Chapter 16
Charisma
Contemporary
Contend
Conversely
Extrovert
Poignant
Prevalent
Proponent
Quest
Traumatic

Chapter 17
Congenial
Flippant
Impasse
Perception
Prompt
Prone
Rapport
Rationale
Relentless
Reprisal

Chapter 18
Cor, cour
Di, du-
-dom
-fy
Il-, im-
-ish
Magni-, magn-
Phob-
Pro-
Psych-, pscycho-

Advanced Word Power

aschwar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:06:14 CST

These words are taken from Advanced Word Power by Johnson and Gamer

Please provide definitions and examples.

Chapter 11
aesthetic
catalyst
disparage
ingratiate
insipid
peerless
propriety
virtuoso
vitriolic
whimsical

Chapter 12
amiciable
devious
dissonance
efface
garrulous
immutable
ponderous
predecessor
rebuff
static

Chapter 13
acquiesce
articulate
belittle
bombastic
concillatory
delineate
diffident
laconic
scanty
subjugate

Chapter 14
anarchy
authoritarian
depravity
meager
predilection
quixotic
salutary
suppress
temerity
turbulence

Chapter 15
callous
desecrate
evanescent
heed
indigent
paragon
provincial
steadfast
supercillius
usurp

Advancing Vocabulary Skills

aschwar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:05:30 CST

Words taken from Advancing Vocabulary Skills 3rd ed. by Nist and Mohr

Chapter 13
advocate - verb meaning to promote or speak up for something or someone. The candidate advocates a universal health care plan. As a noun, an advocate is a person who advocates something or someone. He is a human rights advocate. Playing Devil's Advocate means giving an opposing point of view for argument's sake.

antipathy
emancipate
idiosyncrasy
imminent
impede
inclusive
jurisdiction
precarious
preposterous

Chapter 14
austere
estoreric
facsimile
grotesque
mesmerize
metamorphisis
notorious
perfunctory
provocative
travesty

Chapter 15
connoisseur
conspiracy
contrite
distraught
germane
lucid
plight
superficially
symmetrical
verbose

Chapter 16
adept
encompass
entrepeneur
eradicate
homogeneous
presumptuous
sordid
standardize
stint
stringent

Chapter 17
exhort
flamboyant
foible
innocuous
magnanimous
masochist
meticulous
rancor
recrimination
repugnant

Chapter 18
anima
arch, -archy
ben-, bene-
-ee
-log, -logue
miss, mit
mort
poly-
tempo, tempor
ten

Building Vocabulary Skills

aschwar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:03:36 CST

The lists below are from unit 3 of Building Vocabulary Skills 3rd ed. by Nist and Mohr. Please provide definitions and sample sentences where you can.

Chapter 13

Accessible
Awe
Cite
Compatible
Exempt
Prevail
Propel - verb meaning to push forward. My fishing boat has an outboard motor that smoothly propels it across the harbor.
Rational
Retort
Retrieve

Chapter 14

Dubious
Ecstatic
Encounter
Evolve
Fallacy
Fictitious - adj. meaning false or not real. Similiar to the noun, fiction. When Max signed the hotel registry, he left a fictitious address and phone number because he did not want to recieve sales calls.
Gullible
Liable
Miserly
Pessimist

Chapter 15

Elapse
Evasive
Fluent
Futile
Harass - verb meaning to bother, disturb or annoy. As a child, Lee was constantly harassed by other children because he was the only Chinese student in his class.
Infer
Lethal
Obsession
Ordeal
Persistent

Chapter 16

Convey
Delusion
Devise
Savor
Stimulate
Subtle
Unique
Universal
Versatile
Vivid

Chapter 17

Defer
Endeavor
Equate - verb meaning to consider two things equal. It would be a mistake to equate wealth with happiness; rich people can be just as unhappy as poor people.
Impose
Indignant
Inevitable
Malicious
Option
Passive
Patron

Chapter 18 (provide examples of words using these word parts)

Con-
Dict
Dis-
Micro-
Ped
Script, scrib - script, scribble, postscript, scripture, scribe, describe, descriptive, conscription, prescription, ascribe, inscribe, inscription,
-ship
Tele-
Trans-
Tri-

General Academic Vocabulary

aschwar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:40:59 CST

Averil Coxhead at the University of Wellington in Australia has devised an Academic Word List that is useful for all learners of English who intend to participate in an academic environment.

In this space, please list academic words and their meanings. Be sure to provide examples of the word in context.

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SUA’s Book List and Book Clubs Wiki Page:

aschwar — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:13:30 CST

Shared Favorite Reads From all Phases of Life

and a Place to Sign Up to Talk About Them

Book List:
Is there a book that has changed your life? Is there a title that you couldn’t put down or that you’ll always remember? Here’s the place to share that book so someone else can enjoy it as much as you did.

Take a look at some genres and favorite books of staff, faculty, and students here at SUA.
If a favorite of yours is already listed please add an S (student), F (faculty), or ST (Soka Staff). You can add your name and/or comments as well. If you don’t see your favorites, please add them as well with an S, F, ST, name and comments (if you like). Some of these books can fit into more than one genre. Feel free to enter titles into another genre as you deem fit. Please feel free to share favorite book sites at the end as well.

Book/ Short Story Clubs:
Want to talk about your favorite reads, improve your comprehension, and develop English speaking skills or help someone else to all at the same time? Join a Book or Short Story Club and meet casually when you would like for a great conversation. Please post the title you’d like to share and talk about. You can sign up with a friend, a couple of friends, or by yourself and meet some new friends that have shared your book. Conversation Cards as well as a Journal Guide will be available to guide your discussions in a unique way. “Book Talking” is a perfect way to learn new perspectives and engage in stimulating and meaningful communication. When a group has 3-6 people signed up a time and place will be organized by Teri Azar, our Soka Reading Specialist. You can email her at tazar@soka.edu.

Short Stories:
No time to read a novel now? Meet to talk about a short story that’s a quick read . Check out the short stories section below that you might share (or choose and add your own). You can check Amazon.com or Google for short stories written by your favorite authors as well. If there are many in a book, just choose the one you would like to discuss and sign up for it.

Book Club Sign Ups:
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BOOK AND SHORT STORY LIST
Autobiography:
The Measure of A Man by Sidney Poitier, ST Teri Chester
Biography:
Children's Favorites: (Those titles you loved as a child!) Yes, you can revisit them.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery S,S,S,S
Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting S
Nancy Drew F Teri Azar
Tom Sawyer F Teri Azar
The Giver by Lois Lowry F Teri Azar
There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom by Louis Sachar F Teri Azar

Classics:

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, ST Teri Chester
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and David Coward S
East of Eden by John Steinbeck S
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, S
The Gift of the Magi by O’Henry, S
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee S
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo S,
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway S
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck F Teri Azar
Documentary:
Fairy Tales:
Cinderella S
Fantasy:
Harry Potter S, S, S, S, S
Life of Pi By Yann Martel, S, F Teri Azar

Fiction:
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown S, S, F Teri Azar
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, F Teri Azar
The Human Stain by Phillip Roth, F Teri Azar,
Sisters, Danielle Steel ST, Teri Chester
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, F Teri Azar,
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, S,
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, F Teri Azar
The River by Tricia Wastvedt, ST Teri Chester
Historical Fiction with Cultural Emphasis:
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende , F Teri Azar
I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume S
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini F Teri Azar,
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquive F Teri Azar
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri F Teri Azar,
The Immigrants by Howard Fast F Teri Azar,
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "San Kuo Chih Yen-I" S,
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See F Teri Azar,
Zorro by Isabell Allende F Teri Azar
Historical Nonfiction:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, F Teri Azar
This book will give you a great appreciation for your life and motivation to live it to its fullest: Important read for everyone
Exodus by Leon Uris F Teri Azar
Night by Elie Weisel F Teri Azar
Humor:
I Hate My Neck by Nora Ephron F Teri Azar

Inspirational/Spiritual:
One by One: The World is Yours to Change by Daisaku Ikeda, S,S,
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl F Teri Azar
This book will give you a great appreciation for your life and motivation to live it to its fullest: Important read for everyone
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield F Teri Azar
For One More Day by Mitch Albom F Teri Azar
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom F Teri Azar
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, A Book that Changes Lives by Dan Millman,F Teri Azar

Memoir:
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See F Teri Azar,

Mystery (Suspense)
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, S, S, S, F, Teri Azar
Mataresse Code by Roberst Ludlum F
Zen Attitude by Sujata Massey F
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy F

Nonfiction:
Picture Books For All Ages:
Thank You Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco, F Teri Azar,
Poetry:
Political:
Philosophy: One by One: The World is Yours to Change by Daisaku Ikeda, S,S,
The Buddah in My Mirror , ST, F

Science Fiction:
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien, F Aaron Schwartz
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, F Aaron Schwartz
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, F Aaron Schwartz
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, F Aaron Schwartz
Neuromancer by William Gibson, F Aaron Schwartz
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, F Aaron Schwartz

Short Story and Essay Collections:
Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow F Teri Azar
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck (story online)S,F
Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez S,F
Collected Novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez S
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (story online)S, S, F
We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker, ST Teri Chester
Walker, best known as a novelist, offers a collection of her essays and talks in a variety of venues and efforts to express and encourage spirituality and progressive political ideas. (Amazon.com)

Best Book Sites:

http://www.amazon.com
This is great for getting an overview, finding a book at a low price that can be delivered to you fast, and finding other books that are like the one you like.
http://www.ocpl.org
This is great for finding books that are FREE to check out. There is also much info about each book. The closest branch is a short distance from Soka located on Journey and Pacific Park in Aliso Viejo. Books found at other branches can be sent to the Aliso Viejo branch for your convenience.

Early American Studies

aschwar — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:07:56 CST

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History and Future of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns

jspady — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:14:53 CST

Please provide definitions and discussion of the following terms:
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Caribbean Basin Initiative: A 1983 United States policy created by the Reagan Administration that expanded garment production in the Caribbean as part of a general program of anti-communist foreign aid. (Bender and Greenwald, 86)

Central American Free Trade Agreement - CAFTA: It was proposed to promote trade liberalization between the United States and five Central American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Modeled after the ten-year old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), CAFTA is widely considered to be a stepping stone to the larger Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) that would encompass 34 economies. CAFTA must be approved by the U.S. Congress and by National Assemblies in the Central American countries before it becomes law. (http://www.wola.org/economic/cafta.htm)

Coalition: An alliance among entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant (Wikipedia definition).

Collective bargaining- Negotiations between a union and management to reach a binding contract (freedom of contract)

Consumer Cooperative (see also "worker-owned cooperative")

Contracting (and sub-contracting): practice that arose within the American apparel industry in the 1960s. Brands source their apparel through contracting manufacturing companies that may themselves subcontract out to smaller production facilities within the USA or around the world. The practice offers the Brands increased flexibility in responding to market shifts and wage pressures. It also reduces industry accountability for abuses such as sweatshops and child labor.

Cooperatives-collectively owned by the workers themselves. Workers have control over their own wages and labor conditions. (global exchange)

Direct action: public, usually in the street, demonstration on some issue.

Equitable-fair and just

Equal Exchange- "The oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the U.S." (http://equalexchange.com/) The company sells coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars in association with worker co-operatives from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Fair Labor Association (FLA): A non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to combine the efforts of industry, civil society organizations, and colleges and universities to protect workers’ rights and improve working conditions worldwide by promoting adherence to international labor standards. The FLA conducts independent monitoring and verification to ensure that the FLA’s Workplace Standards are upheld where FLA company products are produced. Through public reporting, the FLA provides consumers and shareholders with credible information to make responsible buying decisions (www.fairlabor.org).

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (referred to as "the Act" or "FLSA"), is published in law in sections 201-219 of title 29, United States Code. The Act provides for minimum standards for both wages and overtime entitlement, and spells out administrative procedures by which covered worktime must be compensated. Included in the Act are provisions related to child labor, equal pay, and portal-to-portal activities. In addition, the Act exempts specified employees or groups of employees from the application of certain of its provisions (http://www.opm.gov/flsa/overview.asp).

Fair Trade-
(1) "a voluntary program utilized by coffee importers and food companies to create an alternative model for traditionally disadvantaged producers in developing countries, usually small scale farmers.The components include: Targeted purchasing of coffe through democractically organized farmer cooperatives; agreed upon commodity floor prices that provide for a dignified livelihood; direct exports by producers; a promise by importers to make affordable credit available to the farmer cooperatives; a world-wide network for non-profit certifying organizations; a fee paid by importers and wholesalers to cover the cost of certification; a seal that assures consumers that the product was fairly traded" (www.equalexchange.com)
(2)"trading patnerships [that] are based on reciprocal benefits and mutual respect; that prices paid to producers reflect the work they do; that workers have the right to organize; that national health, safety, and wage laws are enforced; and that products are environmentally sustainable and conserve natural resources" (http://www.fairtradefederation.org/faq.html)

Flexibility : the ability of firms to adjust quickly to changes in profitability prospects due to wage pressures, resource costs, market demands, and other factors.

Fluidity - the gendered definitions of roles, their hierarchial order, and the rationale applied to justify them are shaped by the flexible but highly competitive structure of the garment industry, and have been inherently unstable (Bao, 125).

Horizontal Integration: The acquisition of additional business activities at the same level of the value chain.Horizontal growth can be achieved by internal or external expansion through "mergers and acquisitions" of firms offering similar products and services. Benefits are economies of scale achieved by selling more of the same product and by sharing resources, increased market power, and reduction on the cost of international trade by operating factories in foreign markets. However, if the industry concentration of firms increases significantly, anti-trust issues may arise. (http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/horizontal-integration/)

International Labor Organization (ILO) - branch of the United Nations devoted to researching labor conditions and promoting labor rights around the world.

Labor union - A union (labor union in American English or trades union in British English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a particular industry. A union is formed for the purpose of collectively negotiating with an employer (or employers) over wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment. (www.investordictionary.com)

Labor unions - China - an example would be the All China Federation of Trades Unions (ACFTU), which is the official government-run union in the PRC (Peoples Republic of China).

Labor unions - Mexico - some examples would be the F.A.T., or Authentic Workers Front. FAT has an alliance with the United Electrical Workers in the United States, the goal being to improve conditions in Maquiladoras in Mexico and to defend the jobs, wages, and working conditions in North America.

Labor unions - United States of America - Some prominent examples would be the textile industry union (UNITE HERE!) and the service industry's main union (Service Employees International Union, SEIU).

Living Wage: Also called a "livable wage." The concept of a living wage arose in the early twentieth century in response to advanced industrialization and the extreme poverty associated with "unskilled" wage labor. In its current form, a living wage can be defined as a rate of pay calculated to cover the health, food, transportation, child care, and housing needs of the worker. It is commonly far higher than a "minimum wage."

National Consumers' League-created in 1899 by labor groups to raise consumer awarness about sweatshop made products

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - passed as part of the New Deal in the USA in 1933. The NLRA created the modern regime of labor relations in the United States. It guaranteed certain labor rights but also regulated unions and set labor relations on a path of stability, rather than mobilization, thus limiting the radical possibilities of the labor movement.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Parochiaslism - limited in interests and perspectives

Private company - A company whose stock is held entirely privatley and not traded ona market or exchange.

Progressive Era - 1900-1920 in the United States, a period marked by labor protests and a wave of new legislation to regulate industry and protect labor.

Public company - a company whose stock is traded on the open market.

Runaway shop: A plant transfered to another location, usually another city, in order to destroy union effectiveness, and evade bargaining duties. The best way to prevent a runaway shop is unambiguous contract language which prohibits any move of a plant. (American Rights at Work)

Speed-up - when a factory manager attempts to get more work out of each worker by increasing the pace of the machines ("speeding them up"). The results can be dangerous to employees, though the factory may become more "productive" too.

Stakeholders-somebody or something with direct interest, involvement in something

Strategic research (also "corporate research"): Type of research meant to uncover data, pressure points, and campaign possibilities. At Soka we can use First search "discolusre," Lexis-Nexis, and Proquest for public companies (available through the Ikeda website). For researching private companies, see the LOC sites: http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/company/private.html (for international companies, see the links on the right column of this page).

Strike - (see also "wildcat strike")

Sweatshop - n.
(1) "a workplace 'that violates more than one federal or state labor law governing minimum wage and overtime, child labor, industrial homework, occupational safety and health, workers compensation, or industry regulation'" (United States General Accounting Office, 1994, as quoted in Bender and Greenwald, Sweatshop USA, 5).
(2) "a term long associated with immigrants' jobs, garment work, and arduous, physically demanding toil" (Bender, 20).
(3) A place offering only "'low wages, a long working day, insanitary workshops, and speeded-up workers'" (Frank Tracy Carlton as quoted by Bender, 22).
(4) "any factory where workers' basic human rights to form independent trade unions are violated, or where employees are not paid a living wage--which means enough money to support their families with dignity" (global exchange)

Vertical Integration-a type of ownership in which the means of production are under a common owner. An example of Vertical Integration is American Appearal

Wildcat Strike: An unauthorized work stoppage while a labor contract is still in effect (www.investorwords.com). Wildcat strikes are not authorized by union management and are illegal...[usually] result[ing] from disputes regarding wages and working conditions (www.answers.com).

Worker-owned Cooperative (see also "consumer cooperative") - n.:
A form of business enterprise of any type--service or industrial production--in which the workers directly own and govern the firm. Often synonymous with a collective.

Workers Rights Consortium (WRC): One of two major voluntary monitoirng regimes intended to limit or eradicate sweatshops (the other being the Fair Labor Association or FLA). The WRC, unlike the FLA, has greater teeth. For example, companies that sign on with the WRC must agree to unannounced spot-checks at their sourcing facilities. The FLA does not require such surprise checks. All inspections under the FLA are announced in advance to the facilities in question.

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ENDNOTES:

Bender, Daniel E. and Richard A. Greenwald, eds. Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Ethnic Conflicts in Asia

aschwar — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:20:57 CST

Link to Class Website

Critical Media Literacy: Research, Analyze & Critique

FumikoN — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:45:45 CST

From Jim Gee's What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy
affinity spaces-
social literacy
semiotic domains - any set of practices that recruits one or more modalities to communicate distinctive types of meangins
internal design Grammar - the principles and patterns in terms of which one can recognize what is and what is not acceptable or typical content in a semiotic domain.
external design Grammar - the principles and patterns in terms of which one can recogznie what is and what is not an acceptable or typical social practice and identity in regrad to the affinity g roup associated with a semiotic domain.
lifeworld domain - those occasions when people are operating as "everday" people and not as members of a more specialist or technical semiotic domain.

from Henry Jenkins Lecture

convergence culture: The collaboration of old and new media in complicated ways. Where tons of info flood into numbers of media.
participatory culture: Not the one-way media culture where we just receive the info but where we are able to interact with others through such as blogging, on-line communities, games and so forth. Info can be provided from, such as, not only government policies but also ordinary teenages.

grass roots vs. astroturf

collective intelligence: various groups are able to participate to work through issues, and gradually product the knowledge. That the Wikipedia is constantly refined is one of the examples

participation gap: The gap in access to media due to the time limit, blocking, limited acces, limited ablitity to store, and other different type of conditions

machinima: a portmanteau of machine cinema or machine animation, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre defined by those techniques

from Herman & Chomsky, Manufacturing Consensus:

Hegemony: the dominance of one group over other groups

flak - the negative reesponses to a media statement or program.

ideology: "an instrument of social reproduction" defined by Marx. a set of ideas
neoliberal: supporting political ideas that include strict moral behavior and emphasizing each person's responsibility to work and take care of himself or herself, rather than depending on the government for help

neoconservative:an opponent of Communism, rather liberanism and democratic. they differenciated themselves from conservative since they used to be left wing and liberal.

market populism: the concept that “the free market is more democratic than any democracy

market ideology

normative: describing or establishing a set of rules or standards of behavior

Pedagogy - the art of teaching; the function or work (methodology) of a teacher.
Dialectical - of, pertaining to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
Praxis - practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills. Putting theory into practice.
Humanization - act of becoming human or humane.
Dehumanization - deprivation of human qualities such as individuality, compassion
Axiological - the branch of philosophy dealing with values, as those of ethics, aesthetics, or religion.
Ontological - Of or relating to essence or the nature of being.
Prescription - the imposition of an individual’s choice upon another that transforms the consciousness of the prescribed to correlate with that of the prescriber (oppressor).
Oppression – the dehumanized and dehumanizing totality that affects both the oppressors and the oppressed.
Repression - To put down by force, usually before total control has been lost; quell.
Solidarity - union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples.
Fatalism - the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to.
Dichotomy - division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups.

Banking concept - One in which the student is a blank slate and the teacher projects information to the student and they "deposit" the information.
Problem posing education - responding to the essence of consciousness - intentionally - rejects communiques and embodies communication.
Inquiry - in the sense of researching, asking questions to find an answer.
Limit-situations - Situations in which you are limited, having restricted options, like you're in a box. Hindered from accomplishing your goal.
Limit-acts - those directed at negating and overcoming, rather than passively accepting, the "given."
Generative themes - p. 82 Freire
Thematic Universe - the conplex of interacting themes of an epoch

Slang

aschwar — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:09:59 CST

Add slang words and phrases here.

Chill (v.) - relax or calm down.

lol - Internet lingo for "laughing out loud" which probably should have been "laughing aloud" but grammar isn't always correct on the Internet.

Make vs. Do

aschwar — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:04:29 CST

Make and do can be confusing words in English. They are often used as part of a phrase to create an entirely new meaning. Some of these may be obvious. Others are more obscure and need to be memorized. Please add phrases with make to the left column and phrases with do to the right column. If the meaning is not obvious, please provide a definition.

Phrases with Make	Phrases with Do
Make breakfast/lunch/dinner Make money Make the bed Make time Make friends Make (something) happen Make (someone) happy/sad/angry	Do chores Do the dishes Do the laundry Do time - spend time in prison Do your hair Do (someone) a favor Do homework