I’ve always been a person with a growth mindset, I can thank my dad for that, and this book just seemed to be a great fit for the type of reading that I do for fun outside of school ,so I felt it would be the best fit for me. As I began reading this book, I had already learned about the immense power of effort and where the right amount of concentrated and well preformed effort could take anyone. However, I had no idea of this “fixed mindset” which caused people to believe that effort was not as powerful, as I know it to be, but actually bad. I learned so much about the extent that the fixed mindset can take you. It can take someone who as all the talent in the world, such as one of my personal heroes Billy Beane, and force them to fail at their true dream and passion.
Gordy also explains what Arnold should do for each time he read book. After many conversations between Arnold and Gordy, their friend ship becomes closer. Gordy not only teaches him, gives advises, he also tutors and challenges Arnold to help him become a better student at Reardan because Gordy knows and believes Arnold can do it. Arnold has learned numerous important lessons from his friend
“My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.”(Alexie, 397) Parents want their children to succeed in life and they know without literacy the world would be a tough place. Self-motivation played a critical role in my literacy development. For myself, reading was
“Superman is me” Reading can be a hobby, a job, or even entertaining pleasure to some, but for Sherman Alexie it was a means of survival. He found this as a tool to forget and dismiss his problems by getting lost in the fluttered words of texts. Whether it was manuals, newspapers, magazines, mail, or books it never really mattered to him. In his renowned writing piece The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman And Me, Alexie demonstrates the beginnings foundation of which dictated his career as a writer as well as the social endeavors the early Native Americans in their Reserve lived under in America. Alexie recalls the moment he picked up a Superman comic book, despite lacking the abilities to read even read at his early age and somehow
Throughout primary School and high school my love of reading and writing grew and so, did the number of books and also my ability to pronounce and understand English. Before I knew it, I had been acing all the sorts of verbal and written work presented to me, by my teachers because for me, it was more of curiosity and interest rather
Essentially, his teachers made him a lifelong learner. From that point on, Paul Revere had a well disciplined, curious young mind which helped him always be ready to learn. In fact, he said that his teachers made him "love his books". Sadly, that was the last of his formal schooling. That does not mean that he ever stopped learning (Fischer 9).
Sherman Alexie takes us through a journey of how he discovered reading and how it became a passion to him. He tells us about the first time he discovered paragraphs and how he “realized that a paragraph was a fence that holds words” (583). The love that he showed and passion was amazing to me. I was impressed because I could relate to the author and his experience of discovering something so new and raw. No matter what other people thought of it, he was fascinated by it.
As a teacher, and life-long reader, I believe both professionally and personally, that positive literary backgrounds, gained from a love and interest of books from childhood, enables a teacher to have an enthusiastic confidence in supporting the children in their care within the classroom, and to embrace, support and nurture a growing enjoyment of reading. But what
He loves teaching his little brother new things. I think, like his mother, he was born with the heart of a teacher. He loves reading with his mom but also loves yard work with dad so he seems to be very well rounded. Brayden’s role is to do whatever dad does. He is an all-around Daddy’s boy.
. To become an effective leader, I believe Communication and the Ability traits inspire the strongest Characteristics a leader should have a. As one of my traits to become an effective leader is a golden rule to treat your followers as you enjoy being treated. For my communication skills I like to stay close to the action by visiting members of the organization, talk to people, visit other offices and work sites, ask questions, and observe how the business is being handled. This will give me the ability to gain new insights into the work and find new opportunities for motivating my followers.