We were finally released for recess and I decided to see how Scout was doing. I snuck away from the safety zone of my fifth grade peers to where the first graders were huddled. I pulled Scout away from them and asked her how her day was coming along. She was very upset about how her new teacher had been teaching them. By the way she made her teacher out to be I would’ve assumed she was the devil if I didn’t know how mellow dramatic my sister could be.
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
Scout also does not understand the consequences of many things. This includes about fighting and the situation with Boo Radley, the Finch’s exclusive neighbour. Having such a young narrator gives To Kill a Mockingbird a different point of view to many other stories. It shows innocence and naivety, but also to not judge everything straight away. It helps ease the tension, especially during such a controversial novel.
She is the only one in the family who has been educated and doesn’t like to remember old feelings that only bring frustration and sadness. By wanting to change her name Dee shoes us that she is not proud of her culture, descendants and family. 4. Dee objects to Maggie having the quilts because “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use”.
The students disappoint me in their change of behavior throughout the novel. For example, Leo asking her to be normal, I didn’t like that. He should have let her be who she wanted to be and if he didn’t like that then he shouldn’t have been with her in the first place. The student body as a whole in Mica High School is very bipolar when it comes to Stargirl. First, everybody liked her then, they hated her and then, they liked her again.
She seldom takes notes, even when Daran reviews material for tests, and instead makes jokes to other students about how she does not care about school. Your friend also has overheard Caitlin complain that this history stuff is just boring and that it is too much work to get an A in this class. Daran feels Caitlin is completely unmotivated. Use Scenario One to address the following: 1. How would you explain Caitlin's lack of motivation, in terms of motivational theories, to your friend?
These families do not work a typical 9-5, this does not mean that they are not involved with their children’s school. They do what they can, when they can. Or they may only have one vehicle between two parents, and job schedules conflict. Just because they aren’t at every event, don’t rule them out based on negative assumptions. These assumptions lead to lower academic expectations of these students and an overlook of what these families bring to the classroom and the
Curley’s wife is unnamed, in part, to show her low status. Children often name various different objects and creatures, making them more important than the unnamed things in the world. This goes for characters too; namelessness gives readers an innate illusion of insignificance. Curley’s wife is not viewed as anything relatively important in the eyes of the ranch workers. Shown in Candy’s rude remark to her, “You ain’t wanted here.
Devin Dufrene Essay 4 April 14, 2009 Failure Failure! Some students are afraid of it, Then again some students are given grades and passed anyway. Students should not be given grades and diplomas if they did not learn the necessary information and earn the grade. In this essay I will respond on how I agree with Mary Sherry in “In Praise of the F Word “on how students are hurt later in life First, if student doesn’t learn necessary information in high school he or she will not be able or having a lot off trouble in the after life with college or there new job. In example, if a student gets by in his English class not caring and not trying to learn, but his teacher likes the student so he passed him, when that student goes to college he will have trouble because he doesn’t know how to write a correct essay because he was given the grade.
''At public schools, the girls are skanks,'' she notes with dismay. But she's not unsympathetic. The problem is that parents of state school kids just don't care enough about their kids to send them to good private schools. This neglect of ''povvo'' children by their ''povvo'' parents forms a ''cycle of skankiness that I am so glad I am not a part of''. She doesn't use the word ''class'' much, but then Australians generally don't, now less than ever.