I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and Response Educational scholar Mike Rose authored I Just Wanna be Average excerpt from Lives on the Boundary, a semi biography of his high school experience in vocational education at Our Lady of Mercy.
I would like the writer to discuss more ways to get high school students to focus in school and how teachers or parents can help them achieve their goals. The comparison of this essay to my expectations are not very different at all, I agree with everything the writer has to say because education has only been getting worse throughout the years and the way that high school diplomas are just being handed out to seniors is not how it used to be which defeats the whole purpose of even learning. Sherry’s essay helps the readers clearly understand how education for high school students has become insignificant. Overall, Mary Sherry did really well writing this essay by using her thoughts and experiences to help the readers to be more informed on the
Franklin ended up as an apprentice to his half-brother, James who was a printer. He was supposed to work for him until he was twenty one years of age. Franklin liked his job, had access to better books and while learning the trade of his brother; Franklin worked and improved his writing as time progressed. Going to grammar school, and reading every article or book he could find led Franklin to his occupation. Franklin cannot even distinguish a day that he didn’t know how to read.
treI haven't written a paper in about 12 years. Since I've just recently gone back to school, I have found it very difficult. When I was in high school I really enjoyed reading and writing papers, I have lately found that i have a hard time expressing my words on paper. I really do not enjoy writing. I do not have any misconceptions about writing I'm just very out of practice and I'm sure with time it will become a lot easier and feel more natural.
Since eighth grade I never really took anything the ConnCAP staff said to me seriously; it took me seventeen years to actually understand and realize how important college is and how important having a good education is. They have helped me in many ways by engaging me in meaningful learning experiences for the purpose of enhancing my basic skills and critical thinking. From grades eighth-twelfth, I’ve attended a ConnCAP Summer program for six weeks each summer. This has helped me improve my chances of competing in an advanced society by offering enrichment classes in the areas of math, science and English. During those six weeks I worked on material that helped me get ready for the next grade.
All started at eight years old, when his father sent him to grammar school, in which he became proficient in the field and becoming one of the top students. The reason why his father sent him to learn to read and write was that so he can become a prominent person in the future, also to believe in church (Franklin, 1996, p.6). Unfortunately, Benjamin was very skeptical about everything, but above all he had patience and hunger to learn more, he also read Socrates that he started to use Socratic method. Therefore, he did not believe so much what the church wrote or preached, but he did believe that “the most acceptable service of God was that doing good to man . .
There I attended Johnson Primary School. When I had left my previous grade school, I was excelling in every subject and absolutely loved school. I quickly began to hate school once I started at Johnson Primary. The children at Johnson Primary were learning math in a different way than I had been taught. Although I was getting the correct answers, they believed that I was figuring out the
At the start of the quarter, my instructor, Stephanie asked me to write a paragraph about my goal in the end of this class, English 101, although I hated writing a lot, but I still wrote that I wanted to be a "good writer." At that time, when I was using the words "good writer," I did not completely have any definition about it. I only wanted to get the average score to pass this subject. However, through this quarter, now I've known what it is defined and how to be a good writer as well. From the first to the last essay, my writing skills are getting better and better time by time.
I went to him and told him I did not know what this was, he encouraged me to find out for myself, stressing that it was the only way to develop a good vocabulary and mastery of the English language. He then handed me a dictionary which I remembered was big and very old with some pages sticking out. That was my first time going through a dictionary. I went to the ‘G’ lettered words and it took me thirty minutes to find the word Globalization. After partially understanding the word, I started writing my poorly planned and unstructured essay.
I enjoyed this course because it helped me to identify several races. I think that this type of course needs to be taught the younger generation in grammar ages. The students are taught how to read and write, calculate mathematical equations and learn about our history. However, not much is taught in the form of teaching them about equality and to destroy prejudicial indifferences. This type of course, should also continue in junior high as well as high school.