Weikun Lu 09/16/2014 EAD II, Section 21 1.2 Professor Kalteissen Title Literacy transmits an ability to screen negative and positive while growing and it may help people change their life. Literacy always plays a key role in daily life from past to present. Sherman Alexie is the writer of “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”. Alexie was born to a US family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington State and his family has[had] very poor living standard[s] but his father is[was] never miserly with books. In his essay he described[s] how he became a competitive student through reading books and gaining knowledge.
He borrowed a dictionary and copied every word , page after every page , reading and understanding as much as he could while copying , at the same time working on improving his handwriting . He was able to do this because he was in prison and had all the time in the world . Later , he progressed from the dictionary and started reading novels by well-read writers of history and philosophy (Malcolm X .What Malcolm X accomplished could be done just as easily in public schools . The only problem will be how to motivate and inspire the students to do what Malcolm X did and achieve what he was able to accomplish . To this end , teachers should not only be trained how to teach but also how to motivate .
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Literary Analysis “The Absolutely True Diary Of a Part Time Indian” is a native based novel written by Sherman Alexie about a small Indian boy named Arnold, but called Junior by everyone on his reservation. Arnold struggles with his identity, torn between a part of his Native culture and another in his white cultured school. Along with this, his best friend, Rowdy, starts holding a grudge against Arnold, precisely because he changed schools, as if Arnold only changed schools to hurt him. Arnold went to the white school because of their improved academics, instead of the school on the reservation, where the teachers try to “Kill the Indian to save the child” but end up damaging them instead. Showing Natives as stoic people with no emotions or feelings, the novel also disrupts the stereotype of the stoic Indian by revealing humour in difficult situations, a supportive community, and through the characters of Rowdy and Mary (Arnold’s sister).
When class begins he realizes that she is the teacher, however, he continues to flirt with her. The chapter ends with Jesse answering a question with “‘I love you very much.’” (112) Important Quotations: “Loggers are high-born in Calamus. The ugliest name you can call a logger or his son is a farmer. You farmer. Nobody gets any respect for growing things.” (105) “The trouble with Lorna is she could be a good student if she just paid attention.
Alexie was a smart child and his inspiration to read was his father. His idea was that: he loved his father, his father loved to read, so therefore he must love to read as well. There were many books that
Right from the beginning Malcolm speaks about being a hustler on the street. Being hustler requires sharp quick thinking with ones whit and a drive to get the job done. Malcolm’s passion for learning really started with the self-awareness that he cannot articulate himself on paper like he can in person. “Look, daddy, let me pull your coat about the cat, Elijah Muhammad” (X 29). So Malcolm starts reading the dictionary everyday for hours.
The syllabus included: chapters from the textbook, in class essays, grammar exercises, a final exam, and a research paper. The first major assignment to complete was the grammar exercises from the textbook. The syllabus listed pages 584-706, with a large amount of the work in long hand. While I feel the grammar was beneficial for writing papers, I believe it would have helped to review during each class. The textbook ambiguously explained how to complete each grammar exercise, and I was never sure if I was completing the assignment correctly.
I’m not counting how many “I”s I’ve used as I’m sure it ate a huge chunk of this paper (let alone, this sentence), but it just proves the fact that everyone has a tendency to be self-centered. I realize now that he’s right about education teaching us how to think. It takes practice to internalize a discerning view of the world. Back in high school, I remember how my classmates and I would constantly ask, “What is the point of learning factoring polynomials? It’s not like we can use this in everyday life.” His speech shed light on so much light on how to deal properly with life through being educated.
G00185051 Pursue the Things of Substance. Bravery is as important to a boy as childbirth is to a woman. In Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the main character, Junior feels hopeless on his rez and decides to leave and find hope at Reardan, a school in the white town. Victor who plays the lead role in the movie Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie also leaves his rez with his friend Thomas in search of hope to find the remains of his father. Junior, leaving the rez to find hope at Reardan, supports and clarifies Thomas and Victor’s journey to finding Victor’s father’s remains.
At last, he believes that libraries and instructors should be responsible for teaching students how to do their research by using books to leads them have enthusiasm on their studies. Response: After I finished the article, I totally agree what the author says in the article, because sometimes I use outdated resources try to save more time or if I cannot find any resources better than it. For instance, when I did my environmental science project in previous quarter, my groupmates and I do not know which biology or environmental science books should we read and take it as a reference. So, we