Before handing out my essay, I had Mr. Smith look my paper over to get his thoughts on how it read. The first thing he said to me was “check your spelling there are a lot of mistakes and you don’t want your peers to think you’re stupid do you?” I didn’t know what to think of this, I thought I had spelled a lot of the words correctly and when I asked him which ones were misspelled, he told me it was my responsibility to figure it out. I didn’t rewrite the paper before handing in out to my classmates and it went horrible wrong. My classmates started to speak out loud about all the spelling mistakes I made and that my essay didn’t make sense. I felt ashamed and embarrassed by what they were saying to me, that was the beginning of my fear of writing.
That was great career advice, thanks a bunch! There was one teacher in high school that really went out of his way to help me learn. He designed a special theater-design class just for me. He helped me write a really great essay for my English class, and he was a good friend to go to when I was having trouble at home. He taught me one more really valuable lesson: teachers are only interested in
I need to past my testes and stop sleeping in the class. Last semester I didn’t really read the books and I didn’t really understand what was happening in the book. I knew I was going to have an f in the class. I want to show Mr. Tilton that I can do better and improve. I am going to do all my homework and essays that the teacher assigned me.
At an early age she started to realize that the English had taken over her culture. Kincaid conveys her resentment toward England in her essay through tone, anaphora, and figurative language. Tone is a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience. In Kincaid’s essay “On Seeing England for the First Time”, the tone is one of sarcasm. When Kincaid views the map of England presented to the class by the teacher, she makes a sarcastic comment, “at the time I saw this map - seeing England for the first time - I did not say to myself “Ah, so that’s what it looks like.” Her teacher views the map with awe.
I didn’t know how I would survive this course, or write this paper. We were told we had to choose a book and construct a paper based off a major theme or topic from that book. Although my book was interesting, I still had no idea where to begin writing this paper. With the help of my teacher I decided to construct a paper based off of bullying and the effects it has on high school students. It was at that moment that my view of writing was completely altered.
Essay: Who Determines the Value of Writing? Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is an essay about an inexperience teacher, Mr. Sedaris, who is asked to teach a college writing workshop class. Mr. Sedirs’s class consists of nine students who end up complaining that they did not learned anything in his class, as a result a student transfers to another class. At the end of the story the transfer student returns and decides to read a story, “I Deserve Another Chance”(Sedaris 64). After she reads this story Mr. Sedaris criticizes her story by stating that it has no ending, in response the girl says, “Who are you?
Curtin, I can’t do Math” “I’m always in the dummy class, I’ll never get it” I did not know any thing about their math skills, but I knew I had to find away to change their attitudes toward math. This group (and many others I am sure) are intimidated and unwilling to even try engaging with mathematics. At the next opportunity, I asked Mrs. Trytten and Mrs. Marron (the teachers of record for the sixth grade) for advice. Besides the expected advice on developing a student’s self-efficacy, we talked about strategies to get students interested and engaged with math. I later had a chance to practice some of these strategies with second and fourth graders and my middle school niece and her friends, these strategies seem universal.
Academic Dishonesty The definition of academic dishonesty is doing things like cheating or lying. Last week a current event was due in Ms. Tubiolo’s class and I didn’t do one. One of my friends was printing there current event out and I asked them could they print one out for me and they did. I turned my current event exactly the same as my friend knowing that it was a stupid idea. Ms. Tubiolo noticed that we had the same exact current and event and now I have after school detention.
Jim Keenan English 101 It Puts The Lotion In The Basket As most kids gradually start to read more and more as they mature, I was one of the few who didn't learn to enjoy reading until senior year of highschool. The teachings of Tom Alessandri were the sole cause of my newfound appreciation for literature. All it takes is the inspiration of one individual to turn someone onto reading and writing. Tom Alessandri was the last highschool English teacher I had, taking his Science Fiction & Horror Literature class. While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up.
When I eventually transferred to public schools, the issues that everyone overlooked because they were not an obvious problem for me really came back to haunt me when I was assigned any sort of extensive writing assignment. I continued to take reading classes in public school. Fortunately, I managed to get through my English classes and graduate high school never expecting to have to write any sort of paper again. While I thought that to be true for the first two years out of high school, that proved to be a poor mindset to have. June