Read "Not Much, Just Chillin ': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers" and answer the following Text Dependent Questions:1. Summarize this excerpt in three or four sentences. (RI.7.2) Middle School is a humiliating time for most people. "Nobody is immune...".
In “The Sanctuary of School” Lynda applies her personal life to the fact that some people think cutting down budgets for public schools will benefit when times get tough. Also that art, music and the creative ideas will be the first to go when budgets are cut. Lynda had a rough childhood where her parents had money issues and family members that needed temporarily to stay at her home (Barry, 721). The lack of attention from her parents made her look for attention elsewhere in this case the school. Lynda saw her teacher Mrs. LeSane as a mother figure.
Margaret J. Wheatley once stated, “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” Unless we know what or whom we have done wrong, we can’t prevent ourselves from continuously making that same mistake. Personally, I feel like this quote connects with the readings we have done over the past two weeks. In the article, “Is this how discrimination ends?
Children who grow up in poverty are faced with a series of issues which impact their education and social atmosphere. In both the school and home setting these children lack the proper resources which they need to succeed academically. Across the country, people have begun creating programs which aim to help children in poverty succeed, despite their socioeconomic status. These programs range from after-school reading, tutoring services, charter schools, and free summer programs. All of these programs provide children with extra academic help which they may not be receiving in school or at home.
In this article, “University and High School Are Just Very Different” written by Lisa Karen Soiferman, she studies the challenges high school students face going from a specific writing environment to a college writing environment within three months. “First-year university students have to make a rapid adjustment to a learning environment which provides more autonomy, but requires more individual responsibility, than high school (Brinkworth, McCann, Matthews, & Nordstrom, 2009)” (Soiferman 14). Students are blown away from having everything handed to you in high school to be forcibly have to take responsibility for everything you do from then on. This gain of responsibility results into people dropping school, a great amount.
Out of all the literacy core themes, in my personal opinion, Civic and Social skills is the most important one, especially when attending a diverse school such as Brockton High School. The lessons we learned at school have a tremendous impact on the ways in which we prepared for citizenship and on how we learn to take part in civic life of the society into which we are [will be] integrated. I will confess that it was very hard choosing a evidence, not because they was not many, but rather the opposite as everything we performed in class somehow connected to this core value. Bu that is neither here nor there. Eventually I reached a conclusion and decided that as my evidence I would choose the Cycle of Socialization.
To me, Farm Bureau means advocacy for the voices of the people. I served as a page in the Maryland Senate, where we were allowed to attend committee hearings. During both session and these hearings, I saw Farm Bureau members on several occasions. They were voicing their thoughts on proposed bills, they were present in groups of young people touring their state’s capital building, they were being recognized and congratulated by members of the General Assembly, and they were lobbyists and members of the Senate and House of Delegates themselves. Farm Bureau
experiment would be helping the students have more time in the morning to do things. If they are up late doing homework or are working on a project, they will go to bed late and will not receive to right amount of sleep. This will cause them to sleep in and have less time in the morning to do things like finish homework, get ready for school, pack a lunch, and most importantly, EAT BREAKFAST. The change might cause students to stay up late, but this could be for finishing homework, or working on a project. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Many people think that most American schools are satisfactory. That is far from what is actually happening. The harsh reality is that schools that are unsatisfactory do exist. In Jonathan Kozol’s “Fremont High School”, he points out the flaws of a high school located somewhere in Los Angeles. This helps shine light on differences in the quality of education in various areas of the country.
I liked Barnard for its rigorous curriculum, strong biology program, and the fact that it’s a woman’s college. Barnard is academically challenging and its foundations curriculum encourages Barnard students to think theoretically, empirically, and technologically. The students at Barnard love learning, and the courses are designed to be mentally stimulating. This excites me because being challenged mentally is what makes learning fun. With the distributional requirements, I would be exposed to subjects outside of my intended major, such as English and physics.
The Nation’s High school Students Success story From my point of view, before president Obama took office, was that high school students were struggling very hard to succeed, because students preferred to drop out of school rather than to receive a diploma. Back then there was not much of a good influence on the teens as there is today. Nerveless, this generations of students are willing to work hard because they have someone to look up to. For instance, president Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have spoken highly about receiving higher education. This makes students want to better themselves.
My life involved moving from school to school; as I grew older I realized that the education system in the U.S. is different than education systems in another country. I recall my first grade living in Egypt where my mom paid 500 dollars a month for me to be able to go to a good school. Living there I don’t remember much but I do recall how the teachers wanted everyone in there class to succeed no matter how hard things are for them. Are high schools in other countries surpassing high schools in america? I decided to interview my brother because he had more memories because he attended high school in Egypt until his freshman year.
Critical Analysis of the Implementation of STEM ALP in school. Introduction 'It is not change that kills, it is the transitions' – William Bridges ‘Learning’ is synonymous to ‘change’ in reality. Change is part of our lives and is not a problem if the aim of why we have to change is clear and makes sense. In fact, if people can resonate with the purpose of changing, they will be more ready to own the change, rather than those being arbitrarily imposed on them. Understanding and accepting that change is long, continuous process that involves struggles, bewilderment and loss, is vital for future learners.
I was not tracked in grade school, but I definitely was tracked in high school. I went to a private school for most of my grade school years, and all of my class was at the same academic level. However when I transferred to public school in 7th grade I was put in honors classes. I look at being tracked in a positive way. All my classes are challenging me, teaching me moral education, and my classmates are at my skill level and want to learn.
