Gatto Essay

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* OUTLINE Sample #1 1) Introduce essays, authors, and theme; state your thesis X 2) Summarize Essay #1X 3) Analyze Essay #1 in terms of thesis 4) Summarize Essay #2X 5) Analyze Essay #2 in terms of thesis 6) Compare/Contrast Essays #1 and #2X 7) Present Personal ExperienceX 8) Conclusion 2.) Who is to blame for children’s lack of interest in the classroom? John Taylor Gatto was a school teacher for thirty years and starts out by telling us his experience with students and teachers who were both bored in the classroom. Gatto states that “If you asked the kids why the felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, it made no sense, that they already knew it” (23). When the teachers were asked why they feel bored they would blame it on the kids, saying that they were rude and only were worried about their grades (Paraphrase?). When Gatto was younger his grandfather taught him a very valuable lesson about boredom and that was that if he was ever bored it was his own fault and nobody else’s. He learned that is was his responsibility to educated and entertain himself. Gatto then continues with “Do we need school? Is this deadly routine necessary?”(24). Gatto opinion on American school is that they think we are all robots and are taught the same commands but the fact is that we are all different and need individualized learning experiences at a younger age. 4.) The structure of America is falling apart, “the United States leads the industrialized world in murder, rape and violent crime” (Bennett, 116). How is that providing a good example for the young children living leaving in this environment. The top problems in schools today are not anywhere near educational; they consist of drugs, alcohol, violence, pregnancy, suicide and much more. Bennett talks about a cabdriver he meet that was a graduate

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