English 1113 December 12th, 2008 Critique Praise of the F Word In this story the author, Mary Sherry, tells of the lack of education many adults have today. Sherry believes that the reason for this is getting by too easy at school when you are younger. Sherry, a teacher for semi-illiterate adults, tells of a story when her son was doing poorly in school and his teacher threatened to fail him. This threat made Sherry realize that his teacher was right and now she encourages this method. I agree with this story.
During school time, Scout is told off by Miss Caroline, and becomes very concerned by Miss Caroline telling her to stop learning to read from her father. This matter obsesses her and she mulls over it endlessly, even going as far as to form a “new grudge against Calpurnia”, who had taught her how to read. Jem is the more secure of the two, perhaps because he is older and therefore more mature. He does not seem to exhibit any fear of the changes brought about by the new school year. Past experience has perhaps taught him that his relationship with his father is secure.
She states multiple times that the children within the education system are being cheated every day because they are not being forced to read more difficult books. “Such benefits are denied to the young reader exposed only to books with banal, simple-minded moral equations as well as to the student encouraged to come up with reductive, wrong-headed readings of mulitlayered texts” (Prose 97). The reader can blatantly see that Prose thinks negatively of the high school curriculum that today's students face. It seems clear that Prose does not want to hide her personal view or feelings, so she starts her essay out in a way that we do not have to read between the lines to get a sense of how she feels about what she is writing. She uses more emotional language when she says, "The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence"(Prose
Walter is a Cunningham, so he is inferior and should be treated as such. Scout embraces the racism thrust on her and fails to see any other path. Also early in the novel Scout, Jem and Dill are afraid of Boo Radley, they think he is a monster and try to play tricks on him. They don’t know Boo Radley and have never seen him but still judge him on stories they have heard. They are threatened by him, and are scared to go on his property.
The broken windows, terrible condition of the school position the readers to show pity for the children studying in the schools. The two students in the cartoons also appeal to the reader’s emotion as they wish the school had facilities. This shows that state schools are poorly resourced due to the lack of “shelter sheds” and other important resources to provide the children with a good study environment. The editor concludes by saying “We ought to grasp it”. By placing a strong inclusive sentence at the end creates an impact on the reader.
Thin – Grace Bowman * “One day I wake up and someone tells me that I’m anorexic” (xi) * “Theories on anorexia nervosa pile on top one another; they do not make sense. They contradict and argue over causes and issues and blame” (xiv) * “Five: Grace goes to school. She is the first, ahead of the little brother. Gold stars, happy faces, ticked, well done!” (4) * “Ten… Sometimes in the proper school plays the teachers make her the understudy of the second lead… It makes her hurt and cry” (6) * “Eleven… How can she be popular?... Everything would be OK if they accepted her” (8) * “Eighteen… she has got glandular fever… She is not hungry and her throat is too sore to swallow so she can only eat half a piece of toast a day…
The technical convention of close-up shots is used to show the importance of education through the facial expressions which show desperation, anger and joy of the families of children applying for charter schools. During the final scenes of the documentary, we learn that some children were accepted and some were not. This makes the reader sympathize with the children who were not accepted. The symbolic convention of body language is used to show the importance of education through Ruby’s actions in the isolated classroom. On the seventh page of the book, Ruby is focused on doing her work in an isolated classroom; Ruby seemed to ignore the fact that she was isolated and fully immersed herself in her textbooks.
FREEDOM Freedom is the story of Joyce M Jarrett a professor of English, who wrote “I was propelled to my new liberty more out of a sense of mission.” as she said she discover the real freedom when she liberated herself of the bad feelings that let her experience of attended the all-white high school where she suffer demonstration of racism by the students and her geometry class’s professor. According to the writer, Joyce M. Jarrett the first day in school her teacher Mr. Moore fail her by ignoring her when she tried to be part of his group. When she decided to attend an all-white city High school and be part of a society, where everyone has the same right, but when she was sitting in the classroom surrounded by empty desks because no one wanted to be near to her and she has the courage to ask a question, no matter how strong the atmosphere of declination was that she could breathe in the room, she raised her hand until she heard Mr. Moore said “I see that there are no questions. Class dismissed” it was a painful and dehumanizing incident that broke her heart into millions of pieces. The
t Dear Jeff, How's it going buddy? Hope all is going well. Recently, I heard you are having a tough time in school. After reading this essay on Gatto quitting school you are not sure what to think. As well did I when I first read Gatto's piece against school.
Starting a new school When a child or young person moves school they may start to feel sad/upset and lost that they are leaving all their friends behind and may not see them everyday anymore. Moving school could make the child or young person feel nervous because they will have to make new friends and this could make the child feel anxious because they don’t know what will happen. When children have been to a small nursery for all of their life and they know all the staff and children they will be used to that setting it can be a very daunting thing starting ‘big school’ so they have taster sessions and meet their new teachers before they start in order to get them ready for school. New siblings When a Child or young person parents have a new baby it could leave the older child feeling like they are not the baby of the family anymore. They may feel jealous or even upset because he/she may not be getting as much attention as before; this could make the child start to attention seek they may start acting up or even throw more tantrums to get the attention they want.