Akeelah is coached by a English professor Dr. Joshua Larabee. Not only is Dr. Larabee her main support for the spelling bee, but he also becomes a friend towards Akeelah. At first there bond wasn’t quite well Akeelah wouldn’t speak proper English 100% which also upset her coach and after every day she coached with him she improved a lot better than before. Not only does Dr Larabee help out Akeelah ,but Akeelah also helps her coach break out of his shell from his past. Even though Akeelah feels protected and accepted around her coach and other former spelling bee friends she still gets mocked by her classmates and even her own mother is against her goal for the spelling bee.
Speaking about her style of teaching I would like to admit that she is very open and forward in her ideas and thoughts, something that children are just not used to. So this method of teaching is dramatically different for the students and the other teachers. The woman teaches children to have wonder in their life. An occurrence that created stress in the story was when the children were doing the times table and she told them that six times eleven was sixty-eight, which is untrue. This is stressful because there is a conflicting opinion between the teacher and the students.
The Skin I’m in is narrated by a seventh grader named Maleeka, who attends an urban Middle School. Intelligent and Responsible Maleeka has helped her mother through a hard time with depression after her father dies three years earlier. Maleeka faces cruel bullying because of her dark skin, and because she wears clothes sewn by her inexperienced mother. Maleeka turns to a bully, Charlese Jones, to find protection against the other students. In return she has to do Charlese homework and Charlese’s sister Juju has to give Maleeka some cloths to wear so she doesn’t have to wear her mothers clothing.
He soon realizes that his diverse group of poor students is embroiled in a careless and aggressive attitude toward any authority figure. Without the positive support of family members and low academic expectations from school administrators and teachers, Mr. Clark tries to teach rules and high social and academic expectations. One of the rules is that the class is a family and no one is quitting on each other as long as they have respect for each other. He tries to show them that learning can be fun when they cooperate with each other. As the students read books and did their homework, they began to recognize the value of school.
Todd’s parents think that he should become a lawyer and they do not give him a lot of attentions as they send him the same desk set each year. Their new English teacher, Mr. Keating or “The Captain”, is different from the rest and some of the students find him mad. In their first class, he brings them to see pictures of some of the former students at the school. Through poems he tells them to seize the day, Carpe Diem, a term which he thinks the students should live by. Mr. Keating’s way of teaching brings out the uniqueness of the pupils, but the other teachers, bound by traditions and discipline, do not like his way of teaching.
Final Project Persuasive Research Paper COM/220 Week 9 Day 7 March 25, 2012 Six in One Hand Half a Dozen in the Other Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder Picture a child in their first day at a new school; trying their best to remain unseen. To the child’s surprise the teacher is calling on the new student to answer a question for the class. Red with embarrassment the student lowers his head and in a soft bashful voice begins to answer the question all the while feeling butterflies are in his stomach. Now, picture a person completely withdrawn from all social activity, someone that misses school often, which seems almost angry that he or she has to attend school, and never goes to games or student functions; in fact this person is never seen outside of school. Which one of these students is shy and which one suffers from social anxiety disorder?
Second, students don’t do their homework because they don’t have enough time. In a lot of cases students have to work too. So, when they want to do the homework the time isn’t enough. For example, put the case of one student takes class between 9.30 am to 12.00 pm and after he must to work 8 hours, and then he returns at home 8pm. In this case is probably that the student returns home very tired and doesn’t do his homework.
He than began to start doing well, and soon kids stop calling him names. His classmates also started to come to Ben for help. At a point of time, Ben and his older brother Curtis seemed to lack school work & did very horrible. That is when their mother realized it and laid down a rule. Her rule was that they only got to watch a certain amount of television a week, and had to read a certain amount of books along with writing a report on every book they had read.
She employs a combination of a quizzical and contemplative tone to appeal to readers and to connect to their feelings and experiences. In the first paragraph, Wenke begins by placing the reader in the perspective of a student who resorts to cheating on a test. By doing this, she invokes sympathy in the reader. At the beginning of the paragraph, the student is in danger of failing. Later, though, after the student has cheated, there is a sense of ease and resolution to the situation, and this weakens her argument, making the issue of cheating seem almost irrelevant or benign.
When the teacher gets to David, he says how he loves IBM typewriters, the French word bruise, and his electric floor waxer. The teacher’s reaction made him think that his mispronunciation was a capital crime in France. David believes he have to the absorb to the abuse from the teacher. As the month went by David‘s teacher didn’t change she got worst, and they had to dodge chalk, and protect their heads and stomach when she came with a question. Since the teacher felt David was lazy he started to study four hours a night.