Amy Chua Article Discussion:
Part 1: Discuss the following questions with your group members.
1. According to the article, what does Amy Chua feel is the most important aspect of a child's education? How do you know this?
Amy Chua assumed that children are required to restrict the other activities and only need force the child educational activities so that the child can concentrate on the educational activities and stay on top of every students.
2. What does David Brooks feel is the most important aspect of a child's education? How do you know this?
David Brooks felt that Miss Chua was too hard on her child, she did not know that how the children cognitive influenced the interest of the academic. It’s liked she forced them to participate into the activities weather her child is really interested or not.
3 Why does the author say that Amy Chua is a "wimp?"
Author said that Amy Chua is a “wimp” because she only knows that she care about her demand that she wanted to trained her kids to become very talent and stay on top of every students. She doesn’t care about her child to participate on other activities with other students. She doesn’t know that how participation in the group works motivate and achieve the academic success in different ways.
4. What are good and bad aspects of the education you received as a child? Give specific examples of both.
I believed that let the child learn their own interest and let not restrict their hobbies that can promote their abilities and self-esteem.
If the child was forced to learn that they are not interested that may lead to interfere their academic success.
5. Write two topic sentences that support Amy Chua's method.
(1) Strict parenting affects the children academic success.
(2) Lack of group work can affects the children educational achievement.
6. Find sections of the reading to support your topic sentence.
Learn the skills to better anticipate how theirs will be received. (last sentences )
7. Write two topic sentences that support David Brooks' ideas.
(1) Participating in group work activities are the important for the child academic success.
(2) Team work motivates the individual performance and achievement.
8. Find sections in the reading to support your sentences about Brooks.
Part 2: Vocabulary: Use the underlined collocations/patterns to make your own example sentences.
- She’s protecting them from intellectual activities:
Shelter in home order is protecting people from contracting coronavirus infection.
- Protect sb from sth.
During car accident she was protecting her child from getting injury.
- ...requires focused attention. focused attention
Her grades go down so much she requires focused attention on her homework.
- ...groups are efficient at solving problems… sth is efficient at doing sth.
Strict parenting are less efficient the child educational success.
- … members are good at reading emotions. be good at doing sth.
Psychologists are good at reading other people’s emotions.
Robert is good at playing tennis.
- ...formal learning.
De Anza College educational system is well planned and provide formal learning for every students.
- I wish she recognized that the cafeteria is….: sb. recognizes that s + v.
World Health Organization recognized that Pfizer and Moderna vaccine can protect from contracting coronavirus.
- … learn skills to anticipate how they will be…: anticipate wh- s + v.
We don’t like to anticipate the protest and violent.
- She threatened to burn all her stuffed animals.: sb threatens to do sth.
The robbery aimed the gun at victim and told that to give him all the money.
- America decided Amy Chua is a menace to society. Sth is a menace to society.
She is really menaces to every staff.
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