Akeelah and the Bee

AKEELAH AND THE BEE

The movie "Akeelah and the Bee" tells of a 11-year-old girl who struggled to follow the spelling bee name “Akeelah Anderson”. Akeelah is a middle-school student from Crenshaw south Lost Angels. She is a genius girl who has a high memory, especially in spelling words. But she did not have a good kinship relationship, within the family and in school. She is the youngest of four brothers, his father has died when he came home from work since she was a child and his mother was a nurse who is always busy with his job. In her school environment she did not have many friends and she often gets ribbing from his friends. She's always got an A+ every spelling test, and therefore his teacher Ms. Cross asked him to participate at the spelling bee contest and represented her school in the contest. Initially she was a timid girl and never spoke in public. When she was asked to join the spelling bee that she refused for fear will be the mockery his friend.

But she won the spelling bee at her school and had to represent her school for the district spelling bee. When she followed the district spelling bee she does not have a coach and not get support from her family and she almost failed in the race. Luckily the last participant to commit fraud and finally she had a chance to win a third championship.

To confront the regional spelling bee Akeelah, get a coach named Dr. Joshua Larrabee. This is the most interesting part of this film the process of learning and memorizing vocabulary. From her teacher Akeelah learn so many words and have lots of learning strategies. She learned to memorized the words with games, scrabble, by making own word list "dictionary itself" and by moving the body to remember vocabulary and correct spelling. Dr. Larrabee teaches him to know, remember and spell the word not only memorized but also learn from reading the essays or articles, apply it in a sentence, knowing where it came from the word including the wording.  He said to Akeelah that difficult word is a combination of simple words. So exactly no difficult words that can not to remember and to spell.

It's time in the regional spelling bee. Akeelah has a rival named Dylan Chiu he has followed the spelling bee and won both the national level twice. Dylan's father is obsessed with Dylan in order to win the race. Akeelah can spell all the words that has give by the jury, but suddenly his mother came and told Akeelah to quit the race because his mother did not know the capabilities of her daughter. Akeelah has hard worked and support from his coach finally Akeelah can advance to the national level. To face the race to spell the national level coaches have been preparing for 5000 cards that contain vocabulary that must be memorized and studied by Akeelah. Akeelah get support from everyone in the neighborhood because her mother saying "that everyone can be a coach and wherever you are could be a place of your learning". Akeelah prepare for the race to spell the national level with the helped of many people. Finally, Akeelah included in the final race with Dylan main opponent. It was Akeelah know the distress experienced by Dylan for his father's pressure. Akeelah intend to succumb to Dylan could to be the winner but Dylan did not receive it. He thinks victory in this way is not fair. Finally, they did the best that they can and they become a double champion. jointly lifted the championship trophy.

The lessons we can take from the movie Akeelah and the Bee are the first in moral terms we can learn the importance of support from the people closest to us or the family, school and community environments in teaching and learning. The necessity and seriousness of purpose in doing all things without fear of any kind, keep trying and never give up. This film has taught us to keep the spirit and self-assured and open mind. In learning should not only become fixated on one theory and one way, but also try to learn a variety of ways and make it comfortable. This is the importance to open your mind. The second, from the academic side we can learn how to memorize vocabulary.

From this film we can learn ways to enrich our vocabulary:

1. Make a list of new words that we find or words that we do not understand its meaning in our personal dictionary. So, we have a list of words that we can open at every time and everywhere. Personal dictionary is very useful to help us in the process of memorizing vocabulary.
2. Learn vocabulary by playing games like Scrabble, flip words, etc. Learn to play will be very helpful. It is the easiest way to optimize the workings of the brain to remember vocabulary. So, the brain will be encouraged to think and keep thinking to find the right answer. Learning with game can reduce stress in the study making it easier for the brain to accept new things.
3. Read a lot. All science is all around us especially if we want to read a lot. Not only have to read from books, but also from everything that we can see, hear and feel. Included in enriching our vocabulary must be a lot of reading so that our vocabulary is also growing. Vocabulary is not to memorize but to understand and use.
4. Various ways to move the body to stimulate the brain in memorize vocabulary, such as moving the fingers, spinning, jumping rope, etc.

That some lessons that we can draw from the movie “Akeelah and the bee”. This movie has inspired many people who to learn to do best. For all students at English department it is very important to watch the movie “Akeelah and The Bee” to find and to know how to memorize vocabulary effectively.

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ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

Write at least 10 spelling words that you note from the movie, with their Indonesian translations!

Answer : 

1.     Brunneous : dark brown; used chiefly scientifically.

Brunneous : coklat gelap; digunakan secara ilmiah.

2.     Grovel : like get down on your knees

Grovel : seperti berlutut

3.     Rhesus : a brownish yellow monkey of India

Rhesus : seekor monyet kuning kecoklatan dari India.

4.     Eminent : rising above other things or places.

Eminent : naik di atas hal atau benda lain.

5.    Synecdoche : a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole; an individual for a class; a material for a thing; or the reverse of any of these.

Synecdoche : sebuah kiasan dimana sebagian dipakai untuk keseluruhan; individu untuk kelas; bahan untuk sesuatu; atau kebalikan dari salah satu.

6.     Carmagnole : a lively song and street dance.

Carmagnole : lagu yang hidup dan tarian jalanan.

7.     Psalmody : the practice or art of singing in psalms.

Psalmody : latihan atau seni menyanyi dalam mazmur.

8.     Pluviosity : a state characterized by much rain.

Pluviosity : sebuah negara yang berkarakteristik sering hujan.

9.     Gabbro : a group of dark heavy rocks.

Gabbro : sebuah grup band cadas.

10.  Xylem : a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants.

Xylem : sebuah jaringan yang kompleks dalam sistem vaskular dari tumbuhan yang tinggi.

11.  Argillaceous : means of, relating to, or containing clay or clay minerals.

Argillaceous : berarti ke, berhubungan ke, atau mengandung lempung atau mineral lempung.

12.  Filiopietistic : of, or relating to, an often excessive veneration of ancestors or tradition.

Filiopietistic : dari, atau berhubungan ke, yang seringkali berlebihan pemujaan dari nenek moyang atau tradisi.

13.  Logorrhea : excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.

Logorrhea : berlebihan dan sering kacau banyak bicara.

Who is your favorite character in Akeelah and the Bee? Why do you choose him/her?

Answer :

My favorite character in Akeelah and the Bee is Akeelah Anderson. Why do I choose her? Because in this movie tells that she is a girl who tries not to be afraid of anything, try and not never give up in the spelling race and his spirit in practicing the vocabulary.

What is your favorite scene in the movie? What has the scene taught you?

Answer :

My favorite scene in Akeelah and the Bee is Dr. Larabee provides spelling training that is closely related to Akeelah's ability to jump rope. In this scene we can take the meaning that in practicing the spelling is not just by memorizing but also by moving the body to stimulate the brain in memorizing vocabulary, as Dr. Larabee do to Akeelah is by jumping over the rope.

What would you do if you had a father like Dylan’s dad? Elaborate your reason!

Answer :

If I had a father like Dylan's father, I would probably be just like Dylan who obeys his father's words, but with the nature of his father who always forces Dylan to study, study, and study without thinking of Dylan's distressing condition, it makes me not want to have a father like Dylan's father. And I also think that there is a positive side to Dylan's father's nature by forcing Dylan, maybe he wants Dylan to be proud of himself by winning every race, so Dylan's father forces and behaves harshly to Dylan. Well every father must do the best for his son even though with rude and coercive behavior.

ENGLISH NOTE - 2

READING COMPREHENSION

Text / Passage

Diartikan sebagai paragraf – paragraf yang tidak memiliki judul.

Aspek-Aspek yang terkait pada Reading Comprehension:

1.     Main Idea/Topic/Best Title/Purpose

Ini dapat diartikan sebagai ide pokok dari text passage.

2.     Detail and Negative Question

a.      Detail : Pertanyaan-pertanyaan basic seperti what, who, where, why, when, how     (5W + 1H).

      Jawaban dari pertanyaan ini sudah pasti ada di dalam masing-masing text passage.

b.     Negative : Pertanyaan-pertanyaan seperti

·     Not true

·     Except

·     Not mentioned

·     Not stated

Jawaban dari pertanyaan ini belum pasti ada di dalam text passage.

3.     Shimming dan Scanning

a.  Shimming : membaca teks langsung pada intinya atau membaca cepat atau memahami satu kalimat dari saru paragraf.

     Contoh Words : “they” in paragraf 2 refers to…

     Pasti kita langsung melihat dan membaca paragraf ke 2 dari text passage.

b.    Scanning: membaca teks dari awal cerita seperti membaca novel.

Namun, perlu diketahui bahwa keduanya sama-sama untuk memahami text passage.

4.     Vocabulary

Kosa kata yang terdapat didalam text passage.

5.     Reference/Rujukan

Contoh My mother is teacher. She is beautiful.

    “She” merujuk pada “My mother”.

6.     Inferrence/Simpulan

Simpulan yang dapat diambil dari text passage yang disajikan.

ARTIKEL

Editor's Letter

LAST YEAR WE PUBLISHED an article about African – American sculptor Barbara Chase – Riboud, whose fiber – and – metal sculptures were a revelation when I saw them at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2013. Some of her abstract works from the 1960s and 1970s are dedicated to Malcolm  X, as indicated in their titles, suggesting a political message. The article revealed that Chase – Riboud was criticized at the time for failing to address racial injustice in a more direct way via her art. In our current issue, curator Adrienne Edwards considers how African – American artists engage with both abstraction and race through an examination of works by Adam Pendleton. In parsing the Virginia – born, New York – based artist's paintings and videos, she proposes new ideas about the interaction of blackness, abstraction and conceptualism.

Although Chinese multi – medium artist Wang Jianwei has confronted sociopolitical topics in the past his debut at New York's Guggenheim Museum reflects a shift toward formalism. Richard Wine, A.i.A.’s managing editor, offers a context for thinking about the abstract paintings and geometric wooden sculptures of the midcareer artist, better known in China than abroad.

A different sensibility prevails in the work of German sculptor Cosima von Bonin, as evidenced by her survey at Vienna’s MUMOK. The show reminds A.i.A. contributing editor Faye Hirsch of "a big, free – wheeling, artist – directed installation. “Hirsch assesses that artist's place in the heady and mostly male Cologne art scene, considering how von Bonin's 25 years of art – making reflects her intelligence and wit as well as her attention in to the well – crafted object.

Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz may come from a younger generation, but she also employs humor and surprise – though the results are often restrained. For a recent show, Rosenkranz made paintings in a gallery while under the influence of Viagra. The resulting silvered, pink and flesh – toned abstract works are graceful and elegant and yet also bizarre once the method of their making is revealed. Aoife Rosenmeyer visited the artist in he Zurich studio soon after she was tapped to represent Switzerland in the upcoming Venice Biennale.

Another Swiss artist has designed the cover. Ugo Rondinone takes the rainbow, essentially an optical illusion, and transforms it into a jubilant crayon – scribbled landscape. The artist often presents simple but symbolically loaded imagery, including clowns, trees and the cosmos. I love that this cover appears incredibly simple and childlike but can be endlessly evocative.

Note :

Example : Subject

Example : Main Verb

Vocabulary :

·         Sculptor              : Pematung

·         Fiber                   : Serat

·         Sculptures          : Patung

·         Revelation          : Wahyu

·         Dedicated          : Didedikasikan

·         Indicated            : Diindikasikan

·         Suggesting         : Menyarankan

·         Revealed            : Mengungkapan

·         Engage               : Mengikutsertakan

·         Criticized           : Dikritik

·         Racial                 : Rasial

·         Injustice             : Ketidakadilan

·         Blackness           : Kegelapan

·         Conceptualism   : Konseptualisme

·         Confronted        : Dihadapkan

·         Wooden             : Kayu

·         Midcareer           : Pertengahan karir

·         Sensibility          : Sensabilitas

·         Prevails               : Teruskan

·         Evidenced          : Terbukti

·         Considering        : Menimbang

·         Crafted               : Dibuat

·         Restrained          :Tertahan

·         Bizarre                : Aneh

·         Essentially          : Intinya

·         Endlessly            : Tanpa henti

·         Evocative           : Evokatif

Sumber : Art in America January 2015,Lindsay Pollock

ENGLISH NOTE - 1

MENGENAL SUBJECT DAN VERB
Dasarnya adalah Sentence (kalimat) minimal tersusun atas subject dan verb.

SENTENCE = SUBJECT + VERB

A.   SUBJECT

Subject terdiri atas 5 macam, yaitu :

1.      Noun (Kata benda) : Kata benda yang selalu ditandai dengan awalan a, an, the.
Examples: a chair, a table, a door, etc.
Namun ada juga 'Noun' yang berimbuhan.
Examples:

·      Berimbuhan (…-ment) ex. advertisement, statement, management, argument, etc.

·      Berimbuhan (…-ure) ex. insecure, failure, departure, signature, pleasure, etc.

·      Berimbuhan (…-ion) ex. combination, education, invitation, collection, etc.

·      Berimbuhan (…-er/or) ex. reader, sailor, director, productor, composer, farmer, etc.

·      Berimbuhan (…-y) ex. delivery, recovery, discovery, injury, etc.

·      Berimbuhan (…-ity) ex. reality, activity, creativity, ability, etc.

        2.      Pronoun (Kata ganti benda)
        He; She; It; I; You; They; We.
        Example: She is a beautiful, Her name is Siska, etc.
        3.      Gerund : Verb + ing
        Examples: Drawing is my hobby, Swimming is your favorite job, etc.
        4.      To Infinitive : To + Verb–1
        Example: To get up in the morning is very healthy, etc.
        5.      Clause (Connector/Conjunction) : Anak kalimat, yang minimal punya Subject + Verb dan              biasanya di tambahkan sebuah konjungsi.

        Klausa atau konjungsi artinya kata sambung.
        Example: Who you are is not my concern, etc.

B.    VERB

Verb ada dua macam, yaitu :

1.      Main Verb : Kata kerja utama yang berdampingan langsung dengan Subject dan hanya selalu menggunakan bentuk Verb–1 dan Verb–2.
Eat, go, goes, ate, etc.
Ada juga main verb yang diberi imbuhan.
Examples:

·      Berimbuhan (...-ize) Ex. Memorize, Maximize, Minimize,etc.

·      Berimbuhan (...-ify) Ex. Simplify,etc.

·      Berimbuhan (...-ate) Ex. Communicate, activate,etc.

      2.      Aux Verb : Kata kerja bantu

·      To be = be / is, am, are / was, were / been.
Examples:

a.    She is a student >>> Subject + Verb + Noun
(Noun: a; an; the)

b.   She is beautiful >>> Subject + Verb + Adjective
(Adjective: imbuhan(-ous) ex. fabulous, (-able) ex. markable, (-tive)ex. talkative).

c.    The book is on the table >>> Subject + Verb + Adverb of place
(Preposition: on, between, in, at, etc).

d.   They are studying >>> Subject + To be + Verb–ing

(Digunakan pada saat ada to be).

e.    The cake is eaten by Budi >>> Subject + To be + Verb–3
(Dalam kalimat passive)

·      Modals = Harus diikuti dengan kata kerja dasar (Verb-1) tanpa tamahan apa pun.

(can, must, should, could, would, will, may, etc)
Modals digunakan langsung/direct.
Examples:

a.    We must go.

b.   I can fly.

c.    I shall cook fried chicken.

·      Has/Have/Had : Diikuti dengan Verb – 3.

(Has/Have/Had + Verb3)
Examples:

a.    The door has been closed.

b.   Runi has bought a book.

c.    The book will be delivered tomorrow.

·      Do/Does/Did