Journal 3 reading strategies.

                                                                     Thursday, January 3rd, 2017

Journal #3

         In that class we started saying the oral report number 2 about the book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The chapter 2 of this book I really liked, it was very interesting to read this chapter. The way Lord Harry expressed  himself was  amazing. I going to write a little about this chapter. In this part of the book Lord Harry and Dorian Gray know each other. For Harry Gray is very handsome and charming. For other part Basil was worried because he wanted to finish the portraid and asked Lord Harry to leave but Dorian insisted that he stay.

         Also Gray  said to Harry that is a  bad influence but Harry said there is no such things, all influence is immoral- immoral from the scientific point of view. Also said that to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul, he does not  thinks and he becomes an echo of someone else’s. Music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. Then Lord Harry talked about  beauty and youth, he said beauty not is for ever then said to Gray enjoy it while you have. Basil finished the portrait for Harry is an excellent work of art and Gray he liked it but he was sad and angry because he shall grow old and horrid and dreadful.

          Well my classmates and the teacher gave opinion about this chapter, they think this chapter was very superficial. I think that is true and an example was the ugly reaction of Gray when he said I wish… the picture gets old not me, also this sentence was the most important in this chapter.

           That day we also worked with the book and we saw a new topic, main idea, secondary ideas and supporting details. We read texts such as: Was there really a King Arthur  and we wrote the main idea, secondary ideas and supporting details about this text and other texts.

To conclude, liked that class so much because we talked a lot  about  very interesting topics present in the book that we are reading, for example the superficiality. We live in a very superficial world where most people appear to be what they are not. Also we saw new topic and I learned how to find the main idea or supporting details  in a text.