INDIAN EDUCATION “Indian Education” is a biography written by Sherman Alexie. It is a story about his life growing up on an Indian Reservation. He tells of the trials he endured being Indian and living on the Reservation. He was teased and bullied as a young boy in school. He realized that his educational opportunities were limited if he stayed in the school on the Reservation.
My Writing Experience My writing experiences have been influenced by my parents and the teachers I had in middle school. Mr. Smith was my 7th grade teacher in the year of 1985. I was a nervous child from a troubled home. Believing I was the only kid in the world with a terrible home life of parents fighting and unpredictable outcomes were routine, I had a hard time getting into the groove of each learning day with Mr. smith. We came from a small town in, Elyria, Ohio and I was the youngest of four children.
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.
Ms. Johnson realized that she had to break the standardized curriculum of the school. She taught her students about verbs and used unfavorable words such as “I want to die”, “I choose to die” and the like. She worked hard to motivate the students to do their schoolwork by bribing them with candies, prizes and field trips. The more important thing that Ms. Johnson did to her students was to challenge their abilities and push them to be better
When thinking about Zachary’s High School and all of the Stereotypes listed, the feeling of him not fitting in with anyone gives the tone a depressing, almost sad emotion. Tone plays a huge role throughout the story, but is really shown in the beginning and end; when Zachery commits suicide. Characterization comes into play in Life After High School. An example of characterization would be how “Sunny” Burhman (Barbara Burhman) got her name. “…Her teacher had said, to all the class, in one of those moments of inspiration that can alter by whim, the course of an entire life, ‘Tell you what, boys and girls- let’s call Barbara ‘Sunny’ from now on- that’s what she is” (Page 578).
She can sense right away the segregation in the class room and very violent tendencies, as a fight broke out the first day. She is torn on how to get to these kids. The next day she tries again, but certain people do not want to sit next to each other and cause problems for everyone. Mrs. Gruewell decides to tell the class to get up and everyone move around to a different seat and this is where you’re going to sit for the rest of the time. Mrs. Gruewell uses the Pathfinder Style which seeks both a high degree of effectiveness and a high degree of member satisfaction, believing that greater effectiveness is possible when all members are involved and problem solving is done through teamwork (Brown, 2011 p. 92).
Josie fights though the movie to be clear of her loser label and make it in with the cool crowd. This is a movie that portrays the all too common battle between the unpopular and popular kids. In this film the popular kids rule the school and contol the geeks that fill the halls. It teaches us the lesson that the main character Josie had to learn by going through school again: move on. In Never Been Kissed produced by 20th Century Fox and Drew Barrymore's production company, Flower Films , director Raja Gosnell attempts to show how to move on from labels and bullying by telling the story of a young girl who is struggled though high school and how those emotions held her back.
A teacher in an advanced math class frequently "puts down" girls in his class. One day, when Ruth did not understand a particular question, he said, "That’s why girls should not be in math!" Another time he stated, "Boys and intelligent girls will find the assignment easy." Only yesterday, after Judy got an answer wrong, he snapped, "Shouldn’t you be taking home economics instead?" -That’s more a gender related discrimination not really sexually related.
Bullying is everywhere; as a fourth grader, Dara Genovese attended a Catholic School where even there peers had her “Oh we’d hoped you were dead” (Words Can Kill). Verbal bullies use words to hurt or humiliate others. Verbal bullying includes name-calling, insulting, making racist comments and constant teasing (MAYO 2). Toni Genovese, a concerned mother of a verbal bully victim said, “If these children had knives in their hands and did to her, with the knives that they’re doing with words, she would have been dead a long time ago.” (Words Can Kill). This type of bullying is the easiest to inflict on others.
Characterizations of big mouth and ugly girl. There are two main characters in this book. Big Mouth is Matt - a high school boy who tends to say things without thinking first about what he is saying. An offhand remark he makes about blowing up the school is overheard and reported, resulting in his suspension, dealing with the police and a lot of negative publicity for him and his family. Even when it is decided that he did not really mean what he said he runs into a lot of students at school who now hate him, especially after his family decides to sue the school.