He was a “scholarship boy,” a boy who never thought he was adequate, always anxious to learn, but highly uncreative. Mr. Rodriguez was more advanced in his understanding of the English language than his parents, and he knew this. He mentions “I was the one who came home and corrected the “simple” grammatical mistakes of our parents.” However, as he got older he tried to separate his school life from his home life. In the end, the realization that he came to later on in life was that the reason why he was so successful in school was because he understood the gap between him and his previous culture was widening, but he let it widen
Noah says “I found a clip on YouTube called “Failing Math.” But when I watched it, it was completely unhelpful. They didn’t teach you how to fail math: they taught you how to pass!” (101). Another example of this is when Donovan gets his first grade back from the Academy. The grade has a D-minus on the cover and he is immediately taken back. Donovan soon realizes that he needs to step up his grades when his biggest effort on a assignment since Kindergarten got a D-minus.
The novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about a group of buddies known as greasers that stick together through a battle of social classes is told. This group is confronted with many dilemmas in a short period of time that threaten the bonds that they share. The main character, Ponyboy Curtis is top of his class at school, but almost bottom of the class socially. Being intelligent like he is doesn’t mean he doesn’t act like regular people at home, when he argues with his brother, but when he’s around the people he is everyone knows when to keep their trap shut.
If everyone is phony, then he is phony as well, saying if the world is insane will he also be insane?. Although Holden has says that he is a liar, he doesn't always realize if he is lying or telling the truth. And the distinctions between truth and falsehood becomes faint as
"How not to talk to your kids: the inverse power of praise" Summary and Response Assignment Summary (They Say): In the article "How not to talk to your kids: the inverse power of praise", Po Bronson wrote that the power of praise can make the child less intelligence and some other will think that it will help the child to preform better at school. There a child name Thomas (his middle name) who were told by his parent that he was very smart. He was one of the top one percent of the top one percent student in school. His father knew that his son will give up once he try thing that he wouldn't be successful at it. When it come to something when he don't like, he will try to avoid it.
Chapter One "A Rough Start" I would call this chapter "A Rough Star". I say this because in this chapter Holden mention how he misses his brother D.B. who has moved to Hollywood to per sue his own career. He also talks about how he goes to a school called Pency Prep, but has flunked out because he has failed four out of five classes. This is very similar to his past school records at other schools, always finding a way to get kicked out.
Unlike Richard, Helene is well off, wears clean clothes, and is very smart in school. Richard tries very hard to be like Helene. The only reason he goes to school is for her. Everyone else condemns his behavior. Nobody realizes that he is just another boy who wants to be recognized and seen as just a normal kid like everyone else.
His unorthodox methods not only taught the boys to think for themselves, but they also awoke the boys’ inner desires and dreams. This movie does an excellent job of portraying the school’s four pillars (tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) and the four I’s (individualism, innocence, intuition, and imagination) through members of the Dead Poets Society, specifically Todd Anderson and Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton. Todd Anderson showed the best understanding of the philosophies of transcendentalism, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s. Todd failed to follow Emerson’s philosophy of “Imitation is suicide” until the very last minute of the movie, when he daringly stood up on his desk and called out “Oh Captain, my Captain!” to Mr. Keating. He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office.
Gebriel Belay Mcom 135 D.Shwartz First day Plot- the scene revolves around a father whose son got suspended on the first day of school for being caught with a girl in the janitors closet. My character is a busy father at work who has to go deal with his son’s suspension from school. He wants his son to behave well but and do the right thing but he is not really mad because he believes boys will always be boys when it comes to girls. On top of his sons suspension he still have to go to home and explain what happen with their son to his wife. Character- Mr. Johnson- father, who is mad at his trouble making son, who he loves.
Although they might be brown or white, inside of that colour is still human, and they should have as much chance as everyone else. Joshua thinks that society thinks brown people can’t succeed. An example of this is when he says “if I were a girl, either by myself or with a baby in or beside me, victim of teen pregnancy with a guy in high school”. I personally find this highly unfair how society is judging brown people because they are a different colour. This story inspires me, and I’m sure it will inspire you as well.