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“Seventh Grade is a fictional short story by Gary Soto and its purpose is to entertain. This book “Seventh Grade” teaches young adults how they can search for their community and their place. “Seventh Grade” multiple languages such as French or Spanish. This book also uses third person limited narrative. An example of a simile from the book would be “It was confusing, like the inside of a watch”.
In the book “There Are No Children Here” written by Alex Kotlowitz, there is a passage where one of the main character Lafeyette, is attempting to convey his troubled thoughts to his mother through obscurities. Due to the sudden death of his friend Bird Leg, he tells his mother that his dead friend’s spirit is appearing and trying to tell him something. Unfortunately, even though his mother LaJoe tries to get him to verbalize his thoughts and feelings, his only reply to the death of his friend is quoted as saying, “That talking wasn’t going to help him, that every-thing that goes wrong keeps going on and everything that’s right doesn’t stay right.” (55) In his quote, there is depth to his view on life around him that one can interpret by reading between the lines. He is simply
In response to a flaw found in the school system, the author of “The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade”, Nancy Kalish argues that in order for teenage students to reach their full potential and perform well throughout the school day, their early mornings should start later. In her article, she supports this argument by appealing to her readers using emotional appeals, asking rhetorical questions, and providing expert opinions. To begin, in the first paragraph, Kalish uses an emotional appeal, to appeal to her readers and impact their view of her argument. For example, she states, “many of them [teenagers] stayed up late the night before, but not because they wanted to.” Saying this she is relating to teenage students and emphasizing their frustration
In the article “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto has many characters that change for example one is Victor he changes in three ways one is his positive and negative thinking, secondly by studying, and lastly his crush on his Teresa. To begin with, Victor changes his characteristics throughout the story for example he thinks negative at the beginning of the story and positive at the end of the story. In the text it states “He was going to like seventh grade” and at the begin of the text he says “he wished he could start his life over.” This shows that throughout the story Victor changes by think more positive than negative because at the begin of the text he says he wish he could start over, but towards the end he show positive
Education is acquiring a form of understanding and knowledge. Literary texts often depict the notion of the educated and uneducated as judgemental, favouring one over the other,which is evident in Jack Davis’ play No Sugar, written in 1985. Davis presents the plight of the First Australians during the 1930s and their ongoing struggle for survival and social identity during the Great Depression in Western Australia. The dominance of the western institutionalised form of education, means that the intelligence of Indigenous Australians is often undermined. The character of A.O Neville is the epitome of the judging of individuals through societal stereotypes and entrenched prejudices towards Aboriginals.
The short story “The Lesson” was first published in 1972. This story is in a collection called “Gorilla, My Love” with 14 other stories. Toni Bambara has also published two other novels which added to her collection. In 1977 she published “The Sea Birds Are Still Alive” as her second volume of stories. She also worked on a little bit of screenwriting.
In the essay, “Class in the Classroom”, Joshua Halberstam presents various ways through which students can perform better at the college, in my perspective, the best rhetorical strategy in his writing is dealing with the boredom; it makes the guidance more effective as well as humor. For example, in case the student has to take the subject other than their program of study, they may feel bored, however, the student should be happy because they are contributing their time, and also they are gaining knowledge. The student has to be knowledgeable not only in one subject matter but also in another field, it’s the fact which Halberstam is trying to show positively among the readers. Also, he suggests doing some creative things in class when boredom
The children in a school are valued, with an environment that fully encourages and celebrates their learning and progression and how they are developing. The provision of a safe and secure learning environment for all its pupils should be provided through recognizing the importance of welcoming diversity and equal opportunities. The atmosphere within a school should be positive, with this being reflected in the attitudes of the staff and pupils, all caring for and taking pride in their surroundings and in how the learning journey of each pupil takes
Ray Bradbury concludes that people need authority in order to control their emotional impulses. In the beginning of the story, a few days before the rain stopped, all of the children were exited to see the sun for the first time. They were in somewhat of a controlled environment; however, the anticipation and excitement of the children began to rise, as the day the sun came out grew closer. Because of these emotions, one of the children, William, is rude to Margot; but luckily the teacher or figure of authority was there to correct him and control his emotional impulse. But when the teacher leaves the classroom, the jealousy of Margot’s “possible future” takes over, and all of the students agree to lock Margot into a closet.
In Sam Shepard’s drama review, he expressed his aversion towards rewriting and that’s the first thing I remembered when I bought the revised edition of Curse of the Starving Class. Also, in his drama review, he tried to explain his backward writing method. Still, I don’t understand how “ideas emerge from plays—not the other way around.” without initially writing the play with an idea (50).
Reading some of the chapters of this book has greatly changed my view of education, perhaps many teachers had some misconceptions or some not well defined due to we are all in the process of learning. It seems to me very valuable the powerless to understand that education, the fact of being educated, and learn to prepare students whether big or small for the future. Education is fundamental in our lives and I believe that everyone should have the right to a good education. Education should not depend on money, education should be a right for all humanity. The world as we know it had and has great important characters throughout history that left traces with their contributions plus one is superior to all, this character is Jesus Christ, our God who became man and lived among us, all knowledge It comes from God.
Times are changing, but “teachers, crucially, are not self-sacrificing martyrs” (Jaffe). Even with extensive training, a teacher cannot and
I think that teachers should limit what they teach in classrooms. I think that the teachers should keep their teaching appropriate towards the students. If a parent does not want their child to be associated with the teaching of the school, they should speak with the teacher or school in a private manner. If you want your child to attend the school, you should let the teachers teach the things that will benefit the students. Parents should know what goes on in school classrooms so that their children can get the education they need in life.
Maycomb’s education system is depicted as a failure throughout chapters 2 and 3. Lee’s description of the student’s poor learning attitudes, the teacher’s unskillful teaching methods, all highlights the failure of Maycomb’s education system. Lee depicts the failure of the Maycomb education system through the description of elderly students in Scout’s first grade class. When the class was questioned about their knowledge on alphabets, Scout explained by saying “Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.” The adjective “failed” depicts that the students did not learn much in Maycomb and was unable to take in knowledge under the Maycomb education system.
"It's Class, Stupid" and "The Case for Affirmative Action: An Open Letter to Five Justice" are both articles written by two different people, that discuss affirmative action and what their stances on it are. Richard Rodriguez, the author of "It's Class, Stupid" is a Latino writer. Dave Malcolm, the author of "The Case for Affirmative Action: An Open Letter to Five Justice" is a Caucasian Professor. Both authors believe that affirmative action had and has a huge impact in society. They both also understand how affirmative action can be negative.
