Edith Dircksey Cowan's Biography

Edith's Timeline

• 1861             Born in Western Australia
• 1868             Lost her mother
• 1876             By the ordeal of her father's trials 
• 1879             Edith married to James Cowan 
• 1880-1891   They had four daughters and one son 
• 1890             Gave her an insight into the wider society's social problem
• 1890s           Became involved in voluntary organizations
• 1891             Worked with the Ministering Children's League
• 1894            The House of Mercy for unmarried mothers
• 1894            The Karrakatta Women's Club's first secretary
• 1903             Went to Britain and Europe
• 1906             Member of the Children's Protection Society 
• 1909             The Women's Service Guild 
• 1911             Was prominent in the creation of the Western Australian National Council of                              women
• 1913             Was its president
• 1915             Was among the first women appointed to Children's Court
• 1916             Opening of the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women
• 1961             Was a foundation member of Co-Freemasonry in her State
• 1917             Was vice-president
• 1920             Was appointed O.B.E.
• 1923             The Women's Legal Status Act
• 1924             She lost her election
• 1925             Went to United States of America
• 1926             Was a founder of the (Royal) Western Australian Historical Society
• 1927             She lost her election again 
• 1929             Was active in planning the State's centenary celebrations
• 1932              She died

On Thursday, Teacher Anita was absent, so we had a teacher Asha for whole day. She is a nice teacher, and explained everything clear. Then we did some exercise about biography.

http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4538782.htm

This is the good video for listening and also it has some questions to practice.

http://www.english-4u.de/word_order_ex10.htm

I ordered the words. It was helping me to practice my grammar.



http://www.english-4u.de/modal_verbs_ex6.htm

This program is very helpful to improve listening and writing. It has some useful activities such as questions, cloze, writing, grammar, and etc.

Write a Sammary of Reading

Today I learnt about how to read and write a summary. Before, it was quietly hard for me to get main idea of a paragraph and write a proper summary of it, but now I think I can write a good summary. Also I watched a "writing a perfect paragraph" on YouTube, it was really helpful. It said "a perfect paragraph have 11 sentences".😊

       Topic Sentences

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       Supporting Sentence                Supporting Sentence               Supporting Sentence

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     ￫ General Sentence                   ￫ General Sentence                  ￫  General Sentence
                                                                                                     
     ￫ General Sentence                   ￫ General Sentence                  ￫ General Sentence

Writing a Perfect Paragraph