“High School Training Ground” is a poem by Malcolm London that addresses the problems with the modern school system and how it fails to prepare kids for the real world. In the poem "High School Training Ground" by Malcolm London, the author's use of imagery conveys a tone of dissatisfaction towards traditional public schooling. Firstly, London describes the physical environment of the school through vivid imagery to convey his dissatisfaction with the system. At the beginning of the poem in lines 3-4 the author states "cleaned up after me every day by regular janitors, but I never have the decency to honor their names.”
These instances are examples of how no one is born better than others or has to fit their title if they don’t want to. Each character in this book is human, with problems and struggles. They judge each other based on whether or not they
Her teach mistakes her asking classmate for help with a math problem for insubordinate behavior. The main symbol is the “monumental desk” of the teacher (Kenyon, 9). It gives the image of a throne as if it the divine right of a teacher to have absolute authority over classroom. The education system control our childhood starts to emerge as the underlying theme. The author remembers the image of the “furnace closet” where only the worst boys were put and how “the warmth, the gloom, the smell/of sweeping compound clinging to the broom/soothed” (Kenyon, 13, 16-18).
For the reader, sympathy is heightened as a sense of compassionate pity towards the mother is formed. While she had for so long maintained her dignity in front of her daughter, she realized at that point that whether at that moment or years later her daughter would learn to be ashamed of her. The steps taken by the mother to enroll her daughter, further the mother’s strong character and the ways in which her desire to ensure an education for her daughter surpasses her
Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon” provides an interesting look at standardized education and the way society views those who deviate from it. Baxter shows this through how the narrator Tommy views his new substitute, Miss Ferenczi. The character Miss Ferenczi tries to revolt against the clinical and strict standards of society and positively impact the morality and ethicality of herself, Tommy, and the fourth graders. While some readers may think that Miss Ferenczi is either morally inept or somewhat delusional, she proves herself to be a person who cares to teach the children how to love learning.
In order to ultimately define and present her abstract definition of self-respect, Didion must first set the stage for her audience. Therefore, she begins her essay with a concrete example of a personal experience. In the second paragraph, she describes a time during her teenage years when she was not accepted into Phi Beta Kappa. Didion states: I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the
Miss Moore, a mentor plans a summer trip for the children in Harlem to an expensive toy shop, F.A.O Schwarz to teach them a lesson about the value of money. One of the children is Sylvia and she has an arrogant behavior by saying, “Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right” (Bambara 304). Sylvia thinks that she is the smartest person in their neighborhood until Miss Moore comes. Sylvia does not like Miss Moore at all and she “kinda hate her too” (304). She hates Miss Moore because she feels that someone is better and smarter than her in their neighborhood.
The poem seems to be from the point of view of an adult, who reflects on her childhood memories. The theme is the difficulties during the growing up period, and the wish to be one of the ''big people''. The beginning of the poem describes the setting, which is a place outside a kindergarten since the author uses the word ''the'', it can be argued that she refers to her own kindergarten. This description seems to remind the reader of his own childhood memories.
In the article “The Care and Support of Teenagers”, author Colleen Swain addresses the role of a teacher in helping middle and high school students to succeed. The four main points in the text are that, to maximize student success, teachers must develop bonds with students, create a classroom community, routines, and an overall safe space for the students to learn and thrive. While these are all unique ideas, they intertwine into one key idea; adolescents spend a large amount of their time at school and should therefore be comfortable around their teachers and classmates. In the setting of high school when many students are facing chaos elsewhere in their lives, Swain says that it is important to make sure they do not experience the same thing in the classroom. These points for running a classroom address students’ emotional needs according to Maslow’s Hierarchy more than any other need because they influence a group setting where the students can feel included and important.
Everyday, she excels in her job of caring for the children and making a difference in the community. Due to her kindness she would always bring thoughtful gifts for the children. She doesn 't have to do the classes with the children everyday but she continues to do it like Sylvia says “school supposed to let out in the summer I heard, but she dont never let up” (Bambara 96). The lessons learned while earning her degree has lead her to becoming a positive role model in the children 's lives; nonetheless, teaching them lessons that may never learn from others. She shows her passion in the story by saying “she said, it was only her right that she take responsibility for the young ones’ education.
I see that the review from School Library Journal says and “agrees that amazing things waiting to be made into something new. It 's clear that she sees her class the same way as she divides them into tribes and urges their creativity”. That is another example of caring in this story. Mrs. Petterson Inspires them to have hope that they can be something. When you 're in a dark place, times can get hard.
This puts stress on the mother and shows how much the mother wants a great education for her daughter and what she will do to try and get it. We learn throughout “The First Day” that the mother is very ashamed of herself. “My mother looks at me, then looks away. I know almost all of her looks, but this one is brand new to me.” (Jones, 87)
The text appeals to the readers for both of the examples through emotion (pathos) by describing the conditions that the students learn in and it shows how the administration doesn’t care about the well-being of the students. Mireya discusses Fremont’s academic and sanitary problems and in the court papers it states, “Some of the classrooms ’do not have air-conditioning,’ so that students ‘become red-faced and unable to concentrate’ during ‘the extreme heat of summer.’ The rats observed by children in their elementary schools proliferate at Fremont High as well. ‘Rats in eleven . . . classrooms,’ maintenance records of the school report “(Kozol 708).
Throughout the essay, Sedaris indirectly conveys that the things seen on the surface may have reasoning and something more below the surface. Sedaris tells of when he had a week off school due to weather cancellations. On the fifth day, the reader learns that Sedaris’s mother kicks out her kids, as she cannot handle them anymore. Sedaris says, “Our presence had disrupted the secret life she led while we were at school...”
In the poem “First Grade” by Ron Koertge, the writer uses diction and symbolism to reveal his meaning: school can kill one’s imagination. “Until then”, or before the present, the author had creativity and believed that “every forest had wolves in it”. He extends on this idea by saying that he loves to “wear snowshoes all the time” and “talk to water”. Yet, when he enters first grade, he witnesses the woman with the “gray breath” assigning the students’ seats. He describes the teacher’s breath being gray to show that the teacher and the school lack liveliness and imagination.
