Mike Rose Chapter 5 Summary

Mike Rose had a difficult experience when his test scores got mixed up with another student named Rose. The Rose whose score that he got did not do well, so he got sent to vocational school for two years. He describes his experience during this time and the people and teachers that he meets. He illustrates how the teachers do not really take an interest in actually teaching the students or making sure that they learn the material they are trying to get across. Along with the teachers not caring, more than half the time the students would not even care for what the teachers have to say because they have their minds on anything other than learning. Rose found himself getting the same learning habits as his fellow students in vocational classes.

My book “QB 1” by Mike Lupica, Jake Cullen is a freshman trying to do what his dad and brother were great at doing. That is becoming the starting quarterback, and leading his hometown football team the Granger Cowboys to another state championship. Jake has a lot of pressure. From not only his former NFL quarterback dad Troy, and his brother Wyatt who is the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. So can Jake get out of his family's shadows and bring the Granger cowboys to another state championship, or let down his dad, Wyatt, and the whole city of Granger.

I think that the approach the author has taken to collaborate with the students on their education is definitely the best way to educate because it gives the student a chance to discover their own learning potential and set reasonable goals. For example, Mr. Lamar was a teacher

The main character of the story fantasy league is a twelve year old boy named Charlie gaines. This book was written by mike lupica. this boy is a very caring and loving young boy. He is very intelligent. He is very observant and very quick on picking plays up.He shows and helps many people like the football coach. The coach is the nfl coach for the los angeles bulldogs.

     I had many different reactions to this book. At first, I was horrified and shocked to learn about the conditions of these poor schools. Growing

Rose obtained broad learning all around as much academic years. His work consisted of studying psyche and human performance which made the groundwork for Investigation whom his family lived in the blue-collar society. Rose willingly exposes his adolescence to illustrate an approach that shows the multifaceted nature of such jobs, furthermore that it is much more than physical work. Rose Additionally endeavors that just because you come from a blur-collar life does not put a limit on success, and a quest for higher learning.

I enjoyed the chapter, Mohammed Meets Madonna from the book The Middle of Everywhere and I thought the author’s journals of the students were interesting. I like that Mary Pipher wrote a little about all the students that were in the English Language Learner class. I thought this gave the audience a good idea of the variety of backgrounds and attitudes that the students had. For example, there are students who are in gangs, like Khoi and Cahn, and then there are students who are tenderhearted, like Velida and Tharaya. Some of the students in the ELL class wanted to learn and had dreams of going to college, while others just wanted to get out of school. I found this difference between these students interesting because I know that when I become a teacher, I will also have a wide variety of students. These journals made me realize some of the challenges I will have to overcome as a future teacher.

“Annals of the Former World” puts four of John McPhee’s books on the geology and geological history of North America together. They bring up the scientists who found the information that explains the history of North America. McPhee had joined some of them on expeditions, and described the work they did, as well as recorded the ideas they had.

The Lesson takes place in New York?s inner city. The fictional story begins with a group of poor, uneducated, lower class city kids standing in front of a mailbox, preparing themselves for another day of being taught by Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Moore felt that it was her duty to help underprivileged children learn because she

In “The Lesson,” the author shows how one can alter their circumstances. The story is being told by a young girl name Sylvia; through her observation of living in Harlem, readers are able to get a glance of what kind of environment she and the other children lived in. Sylvia was known to be outspoken and unruly but by Miss Moore taking her and her peers under her wing she made a change for the better. Miss Moore took the children on a trip to an expensive store in Manhattan called F.A.O Swartz where the children saw a variety of toys with expensive price tags. Miss Moore wanted the children to see how wealthy people lived and that the other opportunities out there. This short story shows how the environment contributes to ones determination of achieving the American Dream. Although, Miss Moore was well adjusted to this environment, the

In chapter 22 James McBride was searching for the synagogue his family went to before his mother had left to New York. James had met the rabbi of that synagogue but he only gave James very small information about his mother's family so he hadn't really been much help to figuring out his family roots (Mcbride 222). James relly needed help trying to figure out his family roots so he decided to speak to the man whose father had owned the Shilsky's old shop when after they had departed from the town Suffolk. The man who was giving the information to James was named Aubrey Rubenstein and his father owned the store after the Shilsky’s. James had thought it was possible that his mother’s sister Dee-Dee but he had assumed that him meeting her would

As stated above, section one is about how to fail and how to prevent failing. In this section it introduced us to a teacher, named Elizabeth Dozier, who became a principal in some of the poorest schools in Chicago. The book also introduced us to Nadine Burke Harris, who is a pediatrician and opened a clinic in the poorest part of San Francisco. Each of these women took an interest in the children and families that are affected by poverty. Dozier became the principal of Fenger High School, and the first thing she did when she arrived was removing almost all the teachers. She brought in young and ambitious teachers, who she thought would make a difference in the school. One of the best decisions she made while she was at Fenger was to enforce a zero tolerance policy for violence, because gangs were a huge problem in the community and the school. Dozier sent twenty five of her most troubled students to an intensive mentoring program. The book then goes on

At a young age kids don’t know what their parents do for a living. Mike Rose, the author and the son of Rosie Rose a waitress (blue-collar job). One thing that I was not familiar with is the definition of a called “blue collar job.” By the author title and the list of jobs the author mentioned- mother a waitress and uncle an assembly line worker, hair stylist, plumber and welder I can conclude that it is a worker is a working-class person who performs manual labor. I haven’t really thought of it, but blue-collar workers do more than just labor work they also require intelligence and several other skills. Rosie also require psychology and verbal/communication skills. Rosie had become a custom to the rhythm of her job she had a system that others

This chapter offers a higher level of education. From the high school student, college student to a part of Teacher Corps, and now Mike Rose works for EOP, becomes a tutor in UCLA. Throughout this chapter, I can see the view of education of the author changes time by time. He is now facing with the highly successful students and the main problem here is how unprepared they are. Actually, I used to have that problem, it is not easy to integrate into new environment. In addition, I was struggled and stressed so much when I got really bad result in the first few tests in the first year in high school even I kept asking question and memorizing the whole lecture but now, I understand the problem was all about the study styles. Besides, I find out

Jared Diamond talked about his life and a little bit of this book. Part of his comments were about how people's behaves. Diamond related behaves depending on the place where people live. He compared traditional society and industrialized society. For example, Jared said that the customs of a tribe is to live more with paranoia than people who live in cities. Tribesmen tend to overestimate hazards while people from cities lower estimate the consequences of their actions. Tribe members live with fear and paranoia to natural phenomenon. Mr. Diamond believe that paranoia makes stress, so all the societies suffer stress created differently. Also, Diamond mentioned other details that distinguish each society, and that point has a relation with Chapter