Reading log - Short stories

 

Name                          : Fahmi Adrian

NPM                           : 172122081

Course subject           : Extensive Reading (C)

Meeting                      : 10^th meetings Reading Log Short Stories

 

No	Day	Title	Why I am interesting to read	Questions before I read
1	Friday	A good boy.       Last journey.	I’m interested with the title. I assumed that this story will relate with our life.   I’m interested with the title.	How the story would illustrate its title?     What does it mean by “Last journey”?
2	Saturday	Do not give up.       A short story: Bad temper.	I’m interested with the title. I assumed that this story will relate with our life.   I’m interested with the title.	How the story would illustrate its title?     How the story would illustrate its title?
3	Sunday	100 percent love.   Be helpful.	I’m interested with the title.     I’m interested with the title.	How the story would illustrate its title?   How the story would illustrate its title?
4	Monday	Humanity.     Different culture.	I’m interested with the title.     I’m interested with the title.	How the story would illustrate its title?   How the story would illustrate its title?
5	Tuesday	My time is coming.   Save your mind at any cost.	I’m interested with the title.     I’m interested with the title.	How the story would illustrate its title?   How the story would illustrate its title?

 

Day 1 Friday Date: 7 May 2021
Time	08.30 - 09.40
Title	A good boy.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/a-good-boy.html
Characters	An old woman, and school boy.
Main points of the story	The school boy helped an old woman across the road.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comments	Give elderly love, attention, respect, and help them when they need some help.

 

Friday Date: 7 May 2021
Time	09.40 – 10.30
Title	Last journey.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/last-journey.html
Characters	A cab driver, and an old woman.
Main points of the story	A cab driver who picked his passenger (an elderly woman) through the night. She wanted to hospice in downtown. She was living alone and doctor said she also doesn’t have very long.   The driver give her respect and treated her as best as he could, even when they were arrived in her destination he won’t take any tip she gave him and hug her.
New Vocabularies found	Bent.
Comments	Give an elderly more respect and love.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 8 May 2021
Time	08.00 - 09.20
Title	Do not give up.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/do-not-give-up.html
Characters	A depressed man.
Main points of the story	One day, there was a man who depressed with is life. He decided to quit his job, relation, and spiritual, he willing to end his life.   He went to the forest and talking to a God; why should he lived? The God responded by illustrating the purpose of life with a Fern, and a Bamboo.   The man realized that every creation that God made have their own time to rise. He decided to continue his life, and trying to never give up with the situation.
New Vocabularies found	Fern, Sprout.
Comments	Don’t compare yourself to others, every human has its own time to rise, and just remember: God would not give any of his creations a challenge it could not handle.

 

Saturday Date: 8 May 2021
Time	09.200 – 10.20
Title	A short story: Bad temper.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/a-short-story-bad-temper.html
Characters	A father, and his son.
Main points of the story	A father who teach his son to keep his bad temper. He told his son to hammer a nail on a fence every time he lost his temper.   The first day, he hammer 37 nails on the fence, the next few weeks he was able to control his temper and the nail hammer is gradually down, until the day he finally control his temper.   His father told him to pull out the nails off the fence and then he said that the fence will never be the same. “When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry. The wound is still there."
New Vocabularies found	Fence, Dwindled.
Comments	Try to control your temper, do not bad mouthing someone because when you say something in anger, you’ll leave a scar on someone’ heart. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

 

Day 3 Sunday Date: 9 May 2021
Time	08.00 – 09.20
Title	100 percent love.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/100-percent-love.html
Characters	A boy, and a girl.
Main points of the story	A couple boy and girl exchange each other something that they kept the most. The boy gave her marbles but he didn’t gave her all, while the girl gave him her all sweets symbolized as trust and love.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comments	If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given her / his hundred percent.

 

Sunday Date: 9 May 2021
Time	09.20 – 10.20
Title	Be helpful.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/be-helpful.html
Characters	A man, his wife, and drunken man.
Main points of the story	One day, a there was a drunken man knock on a door of couple husband and wife in 03:00 AM. The husband get up to see him but he didn’t want to help him. His wife said that his husband should help him because the other day this drunken man was helping him.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comments	Be helpful.

 

Day 4 Monday Date: 10 May 2021
Time	09.20 – 10.20
Title	Humanity.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/humanity.html
Characters	A father and his son.
Main points of the story	A father and his son go to the temple for praying, his son feared to the lion statutes there but his father said “it just a statutes, it won’t harm us”. His children reply “If those lion statues won’t harm us then how could statues of God give us blessings.”
New Vocabularies found	Consoled.
Comments	-

 

Monday Date: 10 May 2021
Time	09.20 – 10.20
Title	Different culture
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/different-cultures.html
Characters	Amy, her teacher and friends.
Main points of the story	Amy's school needed to have a fundraiser so they could earn money to buy more computers. Amy knew that many of her classmates' families were from different countries around the world. She suggested that every student could bring in their favorite dish and hold an ethnic dinner night. She knew parents and members of the community would be glad to pay money in order to try foods from all over the world!
New Vocabularies found	Fundraiser.
Comments	-

 

Day 5 Tuesday Date: 11 May 2021
Time	09.20 – 10.20
Title	My time is coming.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/my-time-is-coming.html
Characters	An elephant, a dog.
Main points of the story	A pregnant dog questioned the pregnant elephant that she doubt an elephant is pregnant because she doesn’t give birth while she have giving birth two times. The elephant responded that she actually will give a birth in two years.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comments	If you haven't received your own blessings, don't despair.

 

Tuesday Date: 11 May 2021
Time	09.20 – 10.20
Title	Save your mind at any cost.
Sources	https://www.advance-africa.com/save-your-mind-at-any-cost.html
Characters	Tenali and his wife.
Main points of the story	Tenali who wants to help his wife from an out of control bullock cart which came rushing from behind. He pulls his wife toward himself in effort to save her, but they falls into a pit along the road. His wife angered because the dress she wear is dirty, but Tenali responded with a cool mind “Well, it’s time to buy a new dress then” (as he smiles to himself thanking God that she is safe)!
New Vocabularies found	Bullock cart.
Comments	-

 

If I have to choose my favorite characters among those stories, I would like to choose a school boy, and a cab driver (A good boy, Last journey). Because they give a respect and help elderly.