Elibeth Torres Professor Gaydosh English 101 31 March 2012 The Impact of Vocational Education on Mike Rose The Vocational Education in high school can be quite helpful for some students, but for other students is just a waste of time and they can acquire a feeling of embarrassment. In the short Non-fiction story “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose, he narrates how he was placed in the Vocational Education track by mistake, due to a confusion with another student last name. He describes not only the problems with Vocational Education, but the impact it has on the students who spends the entire school years in Voc. Ed. Vocational Education affects Mike Rose as he is not challenged intellectually, and is being abuse emotionally, but even after facing these problems, he learns to be social and appreciates diversity.
Unfortunately, the FCAT does not evaluate student’s performance correctly due to students that fall under pressure. The pressure that student’s feel and encounter is also known as test anxiety. According to Channel 7 reporter Erica Rakow’s in the article “FCAT Stresses Students Out, she claims” The responsibility of passing both reading and math portion of the FCAT in 10 grade adds a stressful ambiance to students who really do not want to retake it as a junior (par.2). Rakow also points out “That responsibility includes promotions to the next grade, and future funding for their school. Some students get so worked up about the test they can’t even get through it (par.3).
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
Title: Wonder Name: Jack Fitzpatrick Author: R.J. Palacio Due Date: Number of pages: 315 Per. 7-8a Genre: realistic fiction Summary: This book is about August (auggie) who is a boy that’s face is badly deformed. He is sent to school for the first time in his life, but he is scared of what the other kids will think of his face. Throughout this story, he is bullied but somehow still makes friends despite his face. Other characters in the book are: Olivia (via), Miranda, Jack Will, Julian, Summer, Charlotte, Henry, Miles, Justin, Jamie, and Mr. Browne.
For the summer approaching junior year, we were now required to read a memoir called, "The Color of Water" by James McBride and also another book called, "Breath, Eye, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat. What I realized between these two stories was very interesting how family secrets may have a profound effect on the development of an individual's life and keeping secrets plays a big part in ones life. These two books actually taught me about conflicts between family members and how serious little things matter. "The Color of Water" also showed secret of identity which also stuck out to me. In class we all as a whole had to read, "The Lord of the Flies", "The Catcher in the Rye", and "Macbeth".
Frederick Douglass Academy Jason Fajardo English 1/11 8/24/2012 Reading Log for Fiction Title: The Enders Game Author: Orson card Chapter 1 1. Summarize the progression of the plot of the chapter and comment on what elements move the plot forward (3-5 sentences) This chapter was about a boy name Enders but his mother calls him Andrew but most people don’t. Ender was getting his monitor remove from his neck. When it gets removed you change and it a different you so if your nice u will be mean. Ender was the person to learn how to hack the school computer.
He mentions how the other Indian kids struggle with basic reading in school, while he was reading newspaper, bulletins, junk mail and anything he could possibly read. As he became a writer and visited schools to teach other Indian kids to become like him he then says, “there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows and ignore me with theatrical precision.” The use of comparison and contrast supports his statement that not all Indian kids are “stupid” and are expected to fail in
After Alexie became a writer, he often visited schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids and let them read books. Indian children were expected to be stupid but after they read books they are refreshed. He wrote about those kids in the article [run on sentence. End the last sentence with a period and then integrate the quote] “they have read my books. They have read many books.
Summary on Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriguez My Summary of Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriguez was a story about a little boy who was of the Spanish descent. He went to a private school where he was to be taught how to speak the English language. Richard had a very difficult time just the same as his siblings learning to speak another language. In class Richard would have reservations not alone about just interacting with class activities, he felt misplaced and alone while it seemed that everyone else had to almost master it. It came to a point that the teachers had to make a house visit to speak with his parents about his struggles to learn the language.
The introduction begins with a group of students wearing the same uniform in an institution, Canterbury Boys High School. The documentary is about a boy, Frank. Who has personal problems inside and outside the institution. Similar to the novel “Raw”, Frank gets support from the authority when his request for a three day leave was granted by the Priencple and was given an advice to see his teachers for assessments and homework, as in the novel when Sam tells Brett that “…only you could change your life…”. Repetition is used for the name “frank” and “he” by Mr Curry to emphasis to point making which highlights the need to comply.