She get them to read a novel The Diary of Anne Frank and write about their own life experiences in daily journal. She encourages them to write and they slowly they start to change. However, in the middle of the story, Erin Gruwell's effort lead to conflict with the backward thinking of her department head and with her husband (Patrick Dempsey), who just being disappointed of her because she takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spends a lot more time at school. Freedom Writers is rated as PG13 since it contains some violent action and inappropriate use of language. This movie is suitable for teenagers, teachers and parents in which it inspired us on how to unite with others who came
Later, though, after the student has cheated, there is a sense of ease and resolution to the situation, and this weakens her argument, making the issue of cheating seem almost irrelevant or benign. The reader also notices Wenke’s use of the personal pronoun “you” throughout the scenario in the first paragraph, suggesting that she is aiming the argument at high school and college students. It’s evident that the tone of this piece shifts, but the author begins with a quizzical tone and asks many questions throughout her argument. “If my parents’ generation had such high morals and wouldn’t cheat, wouldn’t they teach their children the same?” (Wenke, Page 1) She then moves to a more contemplative tone in the latter part of the piece, explaining the possible effects of cheating on our society today. She points out that “this attitude will not stop in the classroom, but will carry on into the business world… [the students who cheat] are in turn the ones who will
The Inconspicuous Speech On April 15, 1882 Mark Twain was given the honor and task to write a commencement speech at an all-girls high school and named it, “Advice to Youth.” Mark Twain constructs his message in a way where he intrigues the audience and effectively sends two different messages to each of his audiences. Although this speech is titled, “Advice to Youth” it is clear that Twain was not just giving the youth some advice but also criticizing the elderly and adults. It seems as Twain is satirizing adult’s learned behavior or their conformity. For example he inserts certain words that betray his stated purpose in each of the several topics he touches. For example, when writing about obedience he writes, “Obey your parents, when they are present,” because they “think they know better than you,” implying the parents don’t know better.
The article 10 Quick ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Racism and Sexism (2000) is designed to show students and teachers how to tell if children’s books have signs of racism or sexism in them. It tells the reader 10 ways that you can check the book for racism or sexism. The main way to check is by looking into the relationships between the characters. Also, check how the characters
The forming of subcultures often emerge as a response to the way pupils have been labelled and as a reaction to streaming. Hargreaves, Hester and Mellor (1975) conducted participant observations and unstructured interviews in two Northern England schools. Results revealed that teachers label students by speculation when teachers makes assumptions based on a student’s appearance and enthusiasm in class, elaboration when teachers test their hypothesis which will either be confirmed or greatly contradicted and stabilisation when their hypothesis becomes fixed depending on the outcome. Students then start to believe that they belong in the group they have been labelled to. This is called the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Another educational writer that writes about her thoughts about the negativity of homework is Nancy Kalish. Nancy Kalish, an author of many books suggests"We were always stressed, and I knew many other families were also miserable.’ Hendricks decided things had to change—and she had a unique advantage: She's the principal of Glenrock Grant Elementary School. Together with her teachers, she looked into the research and found what I did: Homework's not what it's cracked up to be" (Kalish). Kalish presents an excellent idea when she talks about the negativity of homework with this statement. There are many authors that agree with these points of view.
Writing as a Process Analysis Writing is a very unique process. Some people’s writing flourishes and really engages their readers, while many struggle through every writing assignment they encounter. There are various reasons that people give as to why many of today’s students have such a difficult time writing. Many even dread writing a paper in general. Barriss Mills, a chairman of the National Council of Teachers of English at Purdue University, writes an essay titled “Writing as Process” in which he gives various reasons as to why our students are such poor writers.
I leaned that sometimes speaking your mind no matter how intimidating can usually pay off in the long run. Writing an essay for my GED was not such a pleasant writing experience. I wrote my essay on my grandmother, and even though I felt it was passionate and detailed the instructor was looking for more. It seems, when writing for a grade, they were looking more for form, punctuation and proper grammar. Disappointed as I was I realized its not always the subject as much as it is your form and process that gets the grade I learned to pay more attention to my technique and process.
The differences in culture were looked at as a deficiency or abnormality by counselors. This affected the relationship between the students and the counselors, which caused attention to be given to differences in race and ethnicity in the counseling practice and theory. Now almost all counseling programs have courses or practicums to ensure school counselors can work in a culturally diverse world, while being sensitive and effective (Erford, 2015). The School counseling role in my opinion has become more appreciated over time. For example, in 2006, the “Diploma Project” was started to reduce high drop-out rates at a lot of schools in Los Angeles.
Begging, demanding, and asking for an undeserved grade Google “How do you go to a teacher and ask for a better grade?” The search results might be shocking as there are countless guidelines posted by several students instructing other students on how to beg, demand, or simply ask a professor for a higher grade than the one originally given to them. Each semester teachers get several requests asking for better grades because either the student needs it or the student really, really wants it. In Kurt Weisenfeld's article “Making the Grade,” Weisenfeld discusses how after reviewing final grades, his failing students felt as if they could hassle him for grades that they thought they deserved but did not receive. Rather than meeting their goals and putting the effort needed to be awarded for the desired grade, these students expected a free upgrade for undeserved effort. Regardless of the outcome, Weisenfeld becomes disgruntled and exposes how students attempt to manipulate and take advantage of teachers by asking, demanding, and using stories of woe in order to convince teachers to issue higher grades.