Analysis Of Michal 's Favorite Subject Of School Is Math, Because It Comes Natural For Him

The first problems discussed is how students are ignoring hobbies and things they truly enjoy and instead doing things only to impress colleges and improve their marks. For example, in paragraph 7 Kohn states “They were joining clubs without enthusiasm because they thought membership would look impressive. They were ignoring – or perhaps, by now, even forgetting – what they enjoyed doing.” This quote shows how students, especially during senior year are stressed to do well

In this course activity, you will participate in a peer discussion about how literary or other artistic pursuits and governmental, religious, political, or social structures affect one another. Afterward, you will summarize the discussion and how it helped shape your thinking about your original ideas.

As the warm sun sluggishly dips below the horizon, the harsh, pale light of my desk lamp takes full responsibility for illuminating the slowly-shrinking collection of schoolwork. The piles of assignments collect in a stack beside by bed, each one masterfully designed from a combination of the material on the syllabus, personal tips from the teacher, and a collection of the teacher’s beliefs. The papers rest upon the old oak bookshelf containing monochromatic prints of esteemed relatives, each with their own lessons and beliefs learned through difficult life decisions. Although these stories don’t have a due date like my homework, every one of my family’s stories has lessons which are just as important, but are at risk of being lost forever, and as Amanda Hayes, author of Splintered Literacies states, “the weakness of oral cultures is that they can die in a generation” (Hayes 104).

Rose first explains how the educational system classifies a child’s class. He then proceeds to elaborate on how the vocational class works for those who do not do as well in school. He uses pathos so the reader feels emotional for the less fortunate student in the vocational class. Rose conveys his beliefs by using personal examples. He learns true qualities of people and shares the stories of Dave Snyder, Ted Richard, and Ken Harvey. Sharing the personal indications of what puts the students in the vocational class, gives the reader the notion that they have strengths that do not apply doing well in school. Rose ties the examples together in the end to confirm his opinion that one should never settle being defined as average.

In the chapter 2 of the book Hunger of Memory: “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez, he talks about how he attains academic success in expense of the life he used to love prior to stepping in school. Rodriguez starts his education having little to no knowledge of speaking English but with sufficient support of his parents and the parochial school in which he learns to do grammar, he later finds himself studying at British Museum. However, he argues that he achieves his success because of being a scholarship boy. He describes himself as an enthusiastic student and unconfident, opposite to his siblings, but his enthusiasm to learn became problematic at home as he starts to see the dissimilarity between home and school and when he is unable to receive academic help from his parents. Thus, force him to adapt and commit himself to study, he starts to read book to isolate himself at home. His persistent to learn became the reason to lose his balance between the two worlds he lives in. Rodriguez admits “A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student” (2).

After reading the book to the children I will engage the students in a classroom discussion that aims to uncover what they might know about their own cultural background. Questions posed could include, “do you know where you were born or where your mum and dad were born”, “do you speak any other languages at home and what is that language, can you say something to us in your home language?”. These questions aim to uncover the diverse cultures within the classroom and by engaging in a group discussion the students learn about each other and learn that they all have different experiences and cultures. According to Fellows and Oakley (2014) reading stories to children provides the ideal context to develop oral language which can be further enhanced with educator led discussion (pg. 90).

There were many diverse aspects to this book. Most of this book is a recall from either the main character, or one of his students. This book is intended to open people’s eyes to see that in order to change the world we must first change ourselves. Being able to go through this story and see the mistakes, and the good decisions, teachers in Michie’s life have made, has taught me that the best way to teach is through love, justice, cultural empathy and imagination. Some of the points brought up in this book include the positive and negative sides of physical contact with a student, classification/stereotyping, race, gangs, police brutality/lack of justice, and children not being able to escape peer pressure.

What activities and interests did the class members express? The staff and Ms. Shaffer mentioned that the class members love to participate in water games. I was told that they enjoy dancing and children’s games altered to make the games more mature (visually). I learned that some of the class members enjoy fine motor activities and some enjoy gross motor activities.

My room-mate had a single story of Africa; a single story of catastrophe”. Adichie also tells how growing up in Nigeria reading only American and English children’s books made her deaf to her authentic voice. As a child, she wrote about such things as blue-eyed white children easting apples, thinking brown skin and mangos had no place in Literature. That changed as she discovered African writers.

Education gives guidance to adolescent minds and teaches them to be a good contributing citizen. Jimmy’s high school years were challenging due to his illiteracy; academics became a problem, though he thrived on extracurricular activities like football. “I hated books, I hated reading, I hated everything about school except football (Baca 28).” Jimmy feels segregated from his classmates. Not only, are his classmates wealthy students with social status. But also Jimmy believes he is they property of the state, so he believes no one cares about his well

Ms.Muggs got into personal fitness and health because she said ‘’it gave me a sense of belonging, aside from my house and family’’. One of the jobs Ms.Muggs had before teaching was being an aquatic director and had a paper route as a kid. Did Ms.Muggs have a favorite moment in middle school? No but she did have two favorite subjects, math and woodshop. When asked why, she said “because I didn’t like L.A. and I liked to build.’’ The sports she played in middle school were soccer, which was her favorite sport, and softball. In her middle school years she really didn’t like or care for school. She says “I didn’t care too much for middle school”. As a middle schooler we asked her if she had a dream job and she said ‘’I didn't have one.” In middle school Ms.Muggs got B’s and C’s but she says ‘’ I was a good kid’’. She didn’t really like middle school and didn’t really remember it either. She liked her teachers but they weren’t role models to her. Ms.Muggs is a new teacher at clifford so we asked her how is it like being a teacher at clifford she responded with, “I like teaching at Clifford, there a good group of kids” we wanted to get more about how she views Clifford so we asked her if Clifford was better than he middle school she said “ It isn’t

End quote From here, we can say that Michael doesn’t like school but he still feels it is his responsibility to go to school. Indolence and the rebellious feeling of going to school is also a very big problem for me. However, I know as a student, we don’t have much choice since if we don’t go, we won’t have a very promising future.

The first idea which interested me came from Chapter one. The socio- cultural perspective. This perspective explains, how children’s learning is influenced by family and culture in which children are living.

These strong, and independent African women authors use insightful and educational language, which invites the western world to be a part of their world through the power of literature. One of the

Elisabeth says then there will never be any solution to the problem of novel in Africa if the Africans wanted a ‘living voice’. The main problem faced by them was because the African writers unlike the French and the English were not acting as writers but were actually behaving like interpreters of their exotic cultures and that the root of their problem was ‘ Having to perform your Africanness at the same time as you write.’