Drama Name: Erin Caulley Subject: Year 11 Drama Teacher: Miss Lodwick Snagged The play Snagged is an Australian play script written by Robert Kronk aimed specifically towards teenagers and any other young person who lives in a small geographically isolated town. The play Snagged gives us, the audience, an insight into what it is like for the teenagers who are faced with a difficult decision. The play starts with Sam, who is the main character throughout the course of the play; she has just graduated school and is on the cusp of adulthood when she is faced with a dilemma. Sam has to choose between leaving a town that could not under anyone’s terms be described as teenage friendly or stay and help her father in the butcher’s shop and not pursue her career as a veterinarian. Things are only made harder for her when Josh moves back to Oxbrook and they become romantically entangled.
Nilaja Sun’s play No Child showcases a teacher, Miss Sun living in a dysfunctional community teaching one of the hardest classrooms in the Bronx. Throughout the play the two main themes of rejection and accountability are shown through the students, teachers and families that are struggling with the poor educational system. In No Child, Sun brings spirit and hope into the life of students and teachers. The story takes place within a broken community of teachers and students at Malcolm X High School. The janitor, who is the narrator of the story, observes all the obstacles that the school and students have faced over time.
Torment, getting assaulted, being bullied, mental and emotional torture. She knew things were going to be hard, she just didn’t realize quite how hard. Melba was warned about the hardship, the abuse she had to overcome, not only by her Grandma, but by the rest of the town. Secondly, “As I stepped into it, a wave of peace washed over me” (103). Melba had a hard day at school, and had hope to guide her through the day.
Scout matures as the novel continues. Scout is childish and disrespectful at the beginning of the novel. Often tossing people into predetermined classes based solely on their family or race. But, she is learning throughout the novel. By the end of the novel she has come to
Both Baby and Anne are very smart, but Baby isn’t recognized for it. Instead she is put into a practical learning class. “I didn’t bother explaining that I’d been on the honor roll at my last school. That I had to go to a program for kids who had learning disabilities made me sad beyond words.” (Page 202, O’Neil) Baby deserved more, considering she was on the honor roll. But because she had to go to a detention centre, the social worker basically forced her into going to this class.
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.
At first, Scout was a tough, tom-boyl, that refused to dress like a normal girl. But as the story continues and she starts to understand the world around her better, she matures, eventually into a youthful, intelligent white girl, the only one who probably really understands Boo. On the other hand, Jem seems to have some trouble in understanding Tom Robinson’s horrid trial. He cries over it, and that is one way he matures. Lastly, Scout faces a problem on her first day of school.
Jane Elliott was a third grade elementary school teacher. After Martin Luther King Jr.'s assignation, she came to the realization that she had to teach her students more then what what they talked about when covering discrimination. She wanted her class to truly get to feel what it was like to live in a world where you were told this type of person was better then the other so, she divided her class into children who have brown eyes and children who have blue eyes. On Day One, she told the blue-eyed children how they would Go to the playground first and none of the brown eyed people could play or talk to them. She also told them how much smarter they were then the brown eyed people, and how they had better manners.
She seems intelligent by the standards of her time and place, but her thoughts and ideas are still immature and childish, like when she speaks of her engagement with Dill. When scout starts school, she is excited to begin, learning that it is not okay to be so blunt about the truth. Unlike the other children, Scout already knows how to read and write, but for some reason her new teacher is not appreciative of that. Her teacher tells her that it is wrong, based on the fact that she is more intelligent. She tells her father, and they come up with a compromise.
For example, Dyslexia (a condition where the brain has difficulty interpreting information) in children is often identified by the parents. However, parents that are unaware or poorly educated may not notice any problems, meaning their child will not receive the crucial help and support they need to achieve. When children struggle in learning to read, write and spell they will soon fall behind at school and other areas of their development will begin to suffer. For example, a child not diagnosed will frequently become frustrated with trying and give up. Then in an attempt to disguise the problem they are more likely to misbehave and disrupt the class.